Let grilled meat rest a moment before eating it
#0063 Food & cooking
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Fact rank
C
No study has tested this with grilled meat; it rests only on the poster's experience and an inference from the mechanism in #0062, so C. No sourced figure for the surface temperature of freshly grilled meat was found either
Wow rank
A
The opposite of "eat it the moment it is done"
Usefulness
S
You can try it at the table right away
Verification: Weak evidence
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Grilled meat (yakiniku) tastes more savoury if you pause a moment after taking it off the grill rather than eating it straight away.
Why
Hypothesis: the surface of freshly grilled meat is so hot that heat dominates and the taste is hard to pick up. Once it cools a little, it nears the temperature range in which the sweet-taste sensor works well (#0062).Evidence
Primary Abstract of Talavera et al. (2005, Nature). TRPM5, a channel with a key role in perceiving sweet, umami and bitter tastes, responds more strongly as temperature rises between 15 and 35°C. Warming also strengthens the sweet-taste nerve response, explaining enhanced sweetness at higher temperatures link
Secondary Tottori Prefecture. Oleic acid melts at a low 16°C. When two beef fats were held at 40°C for 10 minutes, the one higher in oleic acid (55.8%) began to melt, while the lower one (48.8%) turned white and solid after an hour link
Poster's experience The poster's own experience: grilled meat tastes better after a short pause than straight off the grill
Notes and limits
This is a hypothesis; replications are welcome. Wait too long and the fat begins to set. The melting temperature of fat varies by meat; beef fat rich in oleic acid starts to melt even at 40°C. Dipping in sauce probably also cools the meat, but no source confirms this. Resting a thick steak after cooking is about the juices, which is a different matter.
Derivations
Derived from: アツアツより少し冷ました時の方がうまい
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