Sunday, August 5, 2007

What's the deal with hot water?

Everybody loves a nice glass of ice water. But I have never encountered a person who likes hot (or even warm) water.

Why does hot water taste bad? Is the taste actually different? (supposedly water has no taste) We drink it hot if it's flavored... Coffee, Tea, Cocoa, whatever...

But even in the winter cold, I wouldn't think of drinking a mug of plain hot water.

Is there a reason for this? I don't know.

Even tepid water is no good, unless you are really really hot... Maybe the water just needs to be significantly cooler than your current core temperature?

Aren't we supposed to be warm blooded creatures? Regulating our own body temperature tells me that we should have a preference for things that are our same temperature (to save on energy from fluctuations caused by significantly cooler or hotter foodstuffs)


And furthermore, why do I care about this stuff?

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