Eli5: Why does cold food not emitt any powerful scent?
In: Biology
To smell something, particles from that thing need to actually float through the air and make it to your nose.
Warm foods, or hot steaming foods, have the energy to expel those particles and let them become free floating, possibly carried by hot rising steam, or just floating on their own.
Cold things don’t have that, there isn’t any real energy to propel the particles through the air.
Basically, it takes energy to get particles from the food to your nose, cold things have less energy than hot things, and so those particles that need to hit your nose arent very likely to make it there.
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