Thursday, April 19, 2012

Hot Soup


Last Friday whilst taking sustenance at a local café, I witnessed an elderly man blowing repeatedly across the surface of his soup, no doubt  attempting to lower the temperature in order to comfortably imbibe the tasty and low cost meal.

The average depth of a bowl of soup is approximately 1.64" (41.65mm) whilst the temperature generally stands at 95ºC (203ºF). The average temperature of human breath as it leave the oesophagus is approximately 37ºC (98.6ºF), therefore the likelihood of a deep, super-heated quantity of tomato puree being sufficiently cooled by the act of passing one over the other is extremely low. Far wiser to plunge a hand or foot in the liquid, as the extremities of the human body are normally of a lower temperature than the body as a whole, or place the bowl on a convenient exterior windowsill and read a short article about the rising popularity of kite ski-ing.

Soup is supposed to be hot. To force it to change its nature is a perversion of the natural order of things.

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1 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

And old people love a hot plate.

11:05 AM  

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