Favorite foods eaten at the 'wrong' temperatures?
Hi Eaters,
I am sitting at my kitchen table, arms stretched around a bowl of leftover chicken noodle soup to reach the keyboard, realizing that, besides the fact that it's only 10am--I really best love my homemade soup when it is cold. It's a weird quirk.
As a child, I'd often put coke in the microwave--just preferred it that way.
What about you? Any food you prefer at a temperature that's all wrong?
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56 Comments:
I bring cottage cheese to work for a snack, but I don't put it in the fridge. Other cheeses are best at room temp, so why not cottage? It has a nicer texture at room temp.
Kerosena at 10:24AM on 08/07/09
i've raised many eyebrows w/ my preference to cold leftovers... just this morning i had left over cold chinese food (cashew chicken). i sometimes buy chinese food just to have it cold the next day.
Alm25 at 10:33AM on 08/07/09
Cold fried chicken is one of the most amazing things in the world.
annabanannas at 10:34AM on 08/07/09
Cold pizza, cold tuna casserole. I don't prefer them cold, but I still ike them cold.
CJ McD at 10:37AM on 08/07/09
Cold chinese leftovers are great. I hate to admit how much i love how gloopy things get. I am referring of course to cruddy N. AMerican chinese.
BananaMonkey at 10:41AM on 08/07/09
I like all leftovers cold - even mashed potatoes. As I kid I had swim practice every night and always came home to dinner leftovers, and too hungry to heat them up! (pre-microwave...)
PeanutButter at 10:41AM on 08/07/09
Chipotle burritos. I can only eat half at a time anyway and the next day right out of the fridge.
chazmo at 10:54AM on 08/07/09
Cold egg rolls are my favorite breakfast.
sobriquet at 10:57AM on 08/07/09
I prefer my coffee to be room temperature.
ProfessorChaos at 10:59AM on 08/07/09
cold, leftover Chinese food & pizza are my two favorite breakfasts : )
goodcooker at 11:04AM on 08/07/09
Little Debbie Oatmeal Cream Pies must be frozen. Unless there's a road trip involved and then at least chilled in the cooler.
semarr at 11:07AM on 08/07/09
I eat cold eggrolls, too, but it's never really intentional...I'll be looking through the fridge and once I spot an eggroll, I will either take a bite or cut a piece off. yadda yadda yadda, i eat the whole thing.
but, it's a secret.
italiagirl84 at 11:09AM on 08/07/09
Room temperature cheddar. Frozen Charleston Chews. Microwaved cookies.
eeels at 11:13AM on 08/07/09
Cold salmon cakes and meatloaf are even better the next day.
PrairieThistle at 11:16AM on 08/07/09
How about cookie dough, uncooked? Is that considered the wrong temperature? :)
Chew on That at 11:20AM on 08/07/09
I know I'm not alone in this, but I like my brie warm and gooey...
I also like a cold meatball sandwich...
juliebugsmama at 11:32AM on 08/07/09
I will eat almost any hot food cold, from soup to steak. I also like my yoghurt and pudding and other simliar items slightly warmer - I find that I get more flavor that way, actually. Room temperature is good for me for almost anything, really. I also like day-old stale popcorn....but that's a whole different issue right there. :)
Traveller at 11:32AM on 08/07/09
Oh, and I forgot! I *love* cookies, cake, candy bars and other simliar things right from the freezer! There is just nothing like a frozen chocolate chip cookie, I tell ya!
Traveller at 11:33AM on 08/07/09
@Traveller, I love cold chocolate chip cookies too! preferably from a fridge, but frozen ones are fine too. I just like the chocolate chips to be very solid.
hmw0029 at 11:42AM on 08/07/09
I prefer to eat my food at room temperature, e.g., soup, cereal, pasta, ...barring ice cream, and other stuff that completely changes if brought down/up to room temp.
Cassaendra at 11:44AM on 08/07/09
Pizza! Also, eggrolls - straight from the fridge with lots of hot mustard, preferably eaten over the sink!
Amandarama at 12:21PM on 08/07/09
This has come up in another post, but... cold Spaghettios are way better than warm.
lizaj at 12:49PM on 08/07/09
@lizaj
Yuk. Spaghettios warm or cold are gross...... Yuk
CJ McD at 12:56PM on 08/07/09
Warm peanut butter is soooooooo good on a piece of toast or a bagel
foodieteen at 1:05PM on 08/07/09
@banana monkey - whoa man: cola in the microwave? thats so weird. No offense! ahaha to each their own I guess.
I actually have a thing for hating things NOT cold. haha coffee has to be hot, so does soup...otherwise I just dont want it. I'm really not a picky eater either I don't think. I HATE cold pizza man. I just hate the solidified grease. eeeew
Emril's oreos in the freezer alwyas looked good.
I like to freeze my yogurt? not that weird tho.
hungrychristel at 1:24PM on 08/07/09
I'm a big fan of all things cold...shepard's pie, tuna casserole, pasta, potato, cooked veggies, pizza, the list goes on.
psychsarah at 1:34PM on 08/07/09
I like frozen peas while they are still frozen.
ChefDJen at 2:07PM on 08/07/09
Bahn Xeo (Vietnamese crepes) - I like them room temp or cold which my mom and sister think is absolutely nuts. I will of course eat them hot, but don't care if they are not. To me, this makes them the perfect bring from home snack.
CooksForOne at 2:48PM on 08/07/09
Oreos in the freezer, string cheese room temp, dill pickles room temp or warm.
nightowl at 3:19PM on 08/07/09
I always make a extra bacon cheeseburger to eat cold the next day at my desk. Cold fried chicken when fishing and frozen mint cookies anytime.
smokey07 at 4:11PM on 08/07/09
Frozen Milkey Way candy bars, left over mac and cheese, canned baked beans from a just-opened can and, I'm ashamed to admit to this, but ravioli from a just-opened can.
bubbamom at 5:09PM on 08/07/09
I don't buy candy very often, but on the random occasion that I pick up a pack of gummy worms or "happy colas" (my favorite!) I always freeze them.
I dont know why, but I love gummy candy frozen. You kinda have to chew it and warm it up with your mouth before it goes gummy on you.
AyeEat at 5:19PM on 08/07/09
frozen grapes are great. so are frozen candy bars like a 3 muskateers. i also put quartered apples in the freezer for about 20-30 minutes before eating them. I've also done really mixed combo of milk fully incorporated into kashi or raisin bran crunch cereal with lots of cinnamon frozen solid and then letting it cool just enough to eat with a spoon again.
zekks at 6:31PM on 08/07/09
Frozen Tastycakes are amazing,especially the cupcakes with the cream in the middle. You just eat the cake and save all that wonderful filling for the last bite, sooo good. Warm peanut butter and apple butter on a piece of toasted sunflower bread. mmmm good.
donnie at 6:53PM on 08/07/09
Don't know if this counts as "temperature", but my daughter waits for peeps to get stale and hard as a rock before she eats them
donnie at 7:07PM on 08/07/09
Corn on the cob, straight from the refrigerator the next morning, no butter or other condiments.
patricium at 8:26PM on 08/07/09
Cold next day (homemade) baked bean sandwich with ketchup! Any frozen candybar! When I was a boy scout out camping I loved dinty moore beef stew cold in a can, except while winter camping. And I don't care what anyone says, I. second spaghettios being tasty cold... Don't be hatin bitches!
Pavlov at 9:19PM on 08/07/09
Love room temp Dr Pepper. It's also good served hot in a teacup.
Poultrygeist at 6:16PM on 08/08/09
Ditto on the cold burritos. And cold fried rice.
Also, frozen grapes taste like candy.
cupcakelust at 6:47PM on 08/08/09
cold cereal hot
i put it in the microwave
sweethoney at 6:56PM on 08/08/09
I only like my egg salad sandwiches warm. I make the egg salad and eat it within minutes, so it's not like I leave it out to get it to room temp or anything dangerous. Eggs in cold egg salad just make me gag.
marciev at 8:01AM on 08/09/09
@ProfessorChaos: Me too! I prefer my coffee close to room temp or cold. Everyone else I know microwaves their coffee when it isn't hot enough, and complains it doesn't taste the same.
I've been known to eat cold french fries (my sister eats them frozen out of the bag), cold chow mein (the stir fried noodles with sauce, not the bean sprout stuff at Americanized Chinese places), and of course cold fried chicken.
ag3208 at 9:22AM on 08/09/09
i totally agree with anyone who says cold fried chicken...sooooo good! I also have a thing for grossly over-heated lasagna, left overs that have been zapped to death in the microwave the next day...mostly happens because i have a wonkey microwave and forget about the food after i cook it. I've really come to love the crunchy dried edges and room temp ricotta in the middle
honeywheat at 12:17PM on 08/09/09
when the meal is done and you finished doing dishes or hanging out a bit, i like picking at cold leftovers. next day, when i eat them as a meal, i reheat.
blizcheetah at 10:00PM on 08/09/09
Cold roast parsnips with plenty of salt so, so good
ElsieC at 4:21AM on 08/10/09
Cold chinese and pizza leftovers!
and cold oatmeal, kinda disgusting but I love it.
And I always let my icecream melt.
And my little sister used to only drink Sunny Delight if it was warm & had hot water added to it...gross.
alyssaduffy13 at 4:43PM on 08/12/09
Baked potato sweet or white cold out of the fridge!!!
rabbitriddle at 4:57PM on 08/12/09
My mom would always make an extra meatloaf so that we could have cold meatloaf sandwiches the next day...My SO thinks it's the nastiest thing ever--I think he's missing out. I also like cold pizza and frozen green grapes, they turn into sorbet after sucking on them for a bit--so good in the summer.
kmgagne at 2:57PM on 08/14/09
Frozen peas and frozen corn make a great snack! And frozen blueberries too. Pretty much anything small and frozen. My boyfriend thinks I'm strange...
LuckisnotChance at 3:16PM on 08/14/09
Cold sausage & cold sausage rolls. I love nothing better than a nice sandwich made with cut up cold sausage and fathers favourite sauce. Though finding a nice English style sausage and FF sauce now I'm living in Indiana is a bit of a stretch. I also love cold steak in sandwiches the next day. Oh face it any cold leftover meat in a sandwich is my idea of a great lunch.
wwaxwork at 4:24PM on 08/14/09
fried bologna
ndoki6 at 4:28PM on 08/14/09
On chilly mornings, my mom used to microwave orange juice, which we had to finish before we could leave for the bus stop. The metamorphosis made me gag.
These days I sometimes eat canned Indian food (Jyoti's Punjab Chhole—cue Homer Simpson-like "ohhhhh") at room temperature, right out of the can. And I eat yogurt out of the freezer. It's like nutritious popsicles without sticks.
piglet at 5:05PM on 08/14/09
I love pulling meat out of the red sauce from fridge in the middle of the night and eating it cold with my hands - meatballs and especially sausage.
EliEats at 7:03PM on 08/14/09
Microwaved Marshmallows with a sprinkle of rock salt! Extravagance: add a bit of chocolate (S'mores-style) or a piece of a 3 Musketeers Bar, then zap! Melty, yumm...
Not Yukio at 5:04AM on 08/15/09
Eating cold leftover spaghetti as I read this!
marchpane at 10:20AM on 08/15/09
I LOVE eating canned vegetable soup straight from the tin. Somehow it just isn't as heavy, and tastes waaay better.
Frozen beans and peas are aways good. Pieces of raw potato are good too. Don't know if that counts as the wrong 'temperature' but I know it counts as yummy!
GegeMac at 11:05AM on 08/19/09