How come we can see heat waves radiating off of hot surfaces but not like hot food?

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How come we can see heat waves radiating off of hot surfaces but not like hot food?

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Food loses heat through other means such as the sublimation of liquid to vapor. Also food isn’t as hot nor does it have a high heat capacity to continually feed the gas around it with enough heat to change the local index of refraction.

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