hot_food_tastes_better User24 my theory: heat makes everything expand slightly, Ja? whereas coldness makes things contract. OK, so when you cold food, your tongue contracts more, therefore less taste receptors are exposed to the food, hence you taste it slightly less, however with hot food you tongue expands, more taste receptors are exposed, and thus your brain is exposed to more of the taste, so the food tastes richer and flavoursome! three cheers for hot food. 031025 ... User24 ahem.. when you *eat* cold food 031025 ... niska ...in the cold. like hot dogs, at the skate rink, in the winter... 031025 ... nom some things taste better cold 031025 what's it to you? who go blather from