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ELI5: Why do some foods taste better hot?
gpt
Things like texture and aroma play a large part in what we consider the “taste” of food.


Heat changes the texture of many foods—
for example, take a fatty food like a cut of steak or a piece of fried chicken. when the food is hot, the fatty parts of the dish are moist and almost like liquid, so that they pleasantly “melt” in your mouth.  If you were to eat fatty steak or fried chicken cold, it would not be as good because the fat would just taste hard, cold and greasy (think of how a stick of butter feels in the fridge compared to room temperature).

Another thing that contributes to our experience of flavor is smell, so a bowl of soup would taste better hot because it’s giving off pleasant aromas with all the steam but if you ate the soup cold, you would not experience this sensation.

So those are just two reasons/examples.