Eli5: Why does cold food not emitt any powerful scent?
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It has to do a bit with evaporation. Literally, the compounds need to vaporize to become airborne. The warmer the food the more likely it is to vaporize.
It’s why we swirl the wine in a glass. It increases convection and surface area promoting vaporization of the wine molecules allowing us to smell more.
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