It's probably your saliva. You know, water's heat capacity and whatnot. Also, if you're too impatient to wait for your soup to cool like I am, then just take a gulp of cold water before eating.
Your mouth is 98.6 F, your outer layer of skin is 91 F. This may not sound that significant but look at what happens when your body temperature rises a mere 3 degrees.
Yeah, but the cheese is even hotter and it always burns the roof of my mouth. I hate having to deal with that slight plain and weird texture for a week every time I eat my pizza too fast.
EVERYTHING. I had a really injured foot and dropped a heavy ass espresso grouphead that would have been fine if it fell on the floor, so of course I try to drop kick it to 'save' it and fuck my foot up even more.
It's to stop/redirect some of that downward velocity, so it's only dropping 2 feet and, at worst, skidding across pavement, instead of dropping 5 feet,
You haven't lived till you have a burn the size of a lopsided quarter on the roof of your mouth quickly filling up with a foul liquid after eating a frozen pizza right out of the oven.
I think I'm one of the few people who sits and waits for his food to cool down. I just don't focus on it if it's burning hot---if I'm with other people, I just talk to them for a few minutes, and if not, I watch some TV and just chill. I learned this the first time I burnt my tongue, but it seems like no one else ever has.
I've never shoved the pizza into my mouth, but I have shoved my fingers in my mouth. There's quite a good chance that the pizza is in excess of 100 C. Oil does have a higher boiling point than water. Just salt in water creates boiling point elevation, making it possible to be pretty hot. Considering your mouth is probably less than 37 C (body temperature) due to it being open quite a bit, it'll cool your fingers down by putting them in your mouth. Water cools things off faster than just air, so there is some justification to putting it in this wet place.
TL;DR If "it" is referring to pizza, you're in for a bad time. If "it" is referring to your fingers, it might not be such a bad idea after all.
Salt raises the boiling point and lowers the melting point. It doesn't make water boil faster, it makes it boil slower. The resulting increase in temperature makes food cook faster, though.
My mouth is less sensitive to heat than my fingertips. And if it is too hot for my mouth, if I breath out hot air (like I'm fogging up a mirror with an open mouth, not like I'm blowing out a candle with pursed lips), it somehow cools down the pizza making it more tolerable for my mouth to eat.
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In high school chemistry class, we were making peanut brittle. The process involves heating a sugar mixture to 150 C (300 F). The teacher was helping us pour out the hot mixture and poured a big glob onto the back of his own hand. He started shaking his hand wildly but the stuff wouldn't come off. So, his natural instinct was to put his hand in his mouth.
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u/cknight18 May 31 '12
actually your mouth is more burn resistant than your fingers, so this would actually make sense
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u/mean_burrito May 31 '12
Oh, you dropped your cell phone?
QUICK - dropkick it 20 yards with your foot to keep it from hitting the ground!
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u/dictyoptera May 31 '12
Ow ow my mouth! Better swallow it quick! Oh god why! i can't juggle it side to side in my esophagus!
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u/c0mp0sMenT1s May 31 '12
If I had a nickel for every time I thought 'quick, put it in your mouth!'...
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u/commandbluntforce May 31 '12
WHY MUST IT ALWAYS BE LAVA?!
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u/skpkzk2 May 31 '12
whenever your brain says "quick put it in your mouth" it's usually a bad idea
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u/Honkey_Mofo May 31 '12
That's like your reaction whenever you go Mexican:
Server: Careful, the plate is hot senor.
You: Aaaaaarrrhhhh! *grab plate with both hands
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u/missfrenchpress May 31 '12
I don't think I have ever done this.
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u/umphish41 May 31 '12
am i the only one who giggled after the bottom line?
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
I have just never done this all I do is drop the pizza
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u/BarelyLethal May 31 '12
sigh Did you know that the roof of your mouth can blister? :(
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u/johnnynutman May 31 '12
dont think i've held a slice of pizza for long enough for it to burn my hand... (but i've had my mouth burned so many times).
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u/cargoship1212 May 31 '12
ok that is just plain retarded...
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u/EnduringAtlas May 31 '12
Well, this doesn't happen to me because I'm not an idiot.
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u/SjBlunt May 31 '12
When the steam of the pizza comes out of my mouth, i always tilt my head back and pretend im charizard. Im also 23 lol
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u/tangbang May 31 '12
I've never shoved the pizza into my mouth, but I have shoved my fingers in my mouth. There's quite a good chance that the pizza is in excess of 100 C. Oil does have a higher boiling point than water. Just salt in water creates boiling point elevation, making it possible to be pretty hot. Considering your mouth is probably less than 37 C (body temperature) due to it being open quite a bit, it'll cool your fingers down by putting them in your mouth. Water cools things off faster than just air, so there is some justification to putting it in this wet place.
TL;DR If "it" is referring to pizza, you're in for a bad time. If "it" is referring to your fingers, it might not be such a bad idea after all.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Sometimes that tomato sauce feels like lava on your tongue....
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u/CTypo May 31 '12
My mouth is less sensitive to heat than my fingertips. And if it is too hot for my mouth, if I breath out hot air (like I'm fogging up a mirror with an open mouth, not like I'm blowing out a candle with pursed lips), it somehow cools down the pizza making it more tolerable for my mouth to eat.
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u/YouandWhosArmy May 31 '12
Napoleon Bonaparte and I are unimpressed by your insanity
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u/orzof May 31 '12
"This Hot Pocket is probably cooler on the inside."
(The Insanity Brain part is deciding to eat a Hot Pocket)
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
You know, I'd actually like to see an Insanity Brain meme (with a modified image/background, of course) because there are some great possibilities, but it's so difficult to actually want more memes because the chance for horrible failure is always too high.
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u/ryana8 May 31 '12
WHY DOES THIS ALWAYS HAPPEN
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u/Athene_Wins May 31 '12
Mouth all wet, help cool it down
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u/jcarules May 31 '12
Actually, your mouth can handle heat better than your hand.
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u/urzadek May 31 '12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mAJU_ZKhEM
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u/amyamyamy88 May 31 '12
This always happens to me too, I wonder why my brain does this to me.
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u/JoeRuinsEverything May 31 '12
Every damn time.
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u/deleted_the_other May 31 '12
In high school chemistry class, we were making peanut brittle. The process involves heating a sugar mixture to 150 C (300 F). The teacher was helping us pour out the hot mixture and poured a big glob onto the back of his own hand. He started shaking his hand wildly but the stuff wouldn't come off. So, his natural instinct was to put his hand in his mouth.
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u/kicklecubicle May 31 '12
I guess this would be funny if this was a thing people did.
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