to think that an adult shouldn't be blowing on their food to cool it down?

[Grockle]

Just wondering.

I think it's not really ok for an adult to blow on their food rather than waiting a bit for it to cool down. DP thinks it's perfectly reasonable. AIBU?

Having said all that, I like hot food to be really, really hot - so don't actually understand why anybody would want to cool it down!

^ you must have as asbestos throat , like those who drink scalding hot tea. I am assuming it is forbidden to blow on one's cuppa chez-OP?

how are you all serving such hot food?

YANBU

I think it is really bad manners.

My DC have been brought up never to do it.

Phantom - yep. I am one of those people in coffee shops who insist that the staff MAKE the machine go hotter!

I have to blow on my food because the parrot gets really pissed off if it's so hot that it burns his tongue.

We have a thieving parrot problem!

I dont blow on my dinner as I like it hot. However dh likes his food cooler. Wouldnt bother me if he decided to blow on it.

Well, fuck me,I never even considered blowing on your food could be bad manners?!

I've heard people criticizing this before and I felt a bit because I do it. But the answers here show me I've nothing to worry about.
YABU.

I've just blown on my jacket potato 'cos it was verrry hot and I was starving. It looked too delicious to wait as it was dripping in butter mmm
It was either blow on it or dribble on it whilst waiting!!

I'll just file this with other mn rules like....washing your hands after every time you stroke your dog

Happy to be an ill mannered slattern :)

Strictly yanbu, but v hard not to when you have Dcs, just out of habit!

Well, I blow on my tea to cool it down. Never knew this was 'rude'.

Obviously YABU.

Nut what does bother me though is when someone tries to eat soup that is still at molten temperature. They do that noisy slurpy thing trying to cool it as they inhale it whilst also doing their best pained facial expression.

Let it cool a bit you greedy bastard.

I like my food hot, so don't do anything to cool it down.

DH blows on his. I secretly think it's a bit wimpy to be unable to eat nice hot food, but I don't think it's rude

YANBU - it's a disgusting habit. Can't stand it well people tell my DC to blow on their food. It's so irritating.

I have split up with someone over it.

YANBU. I find it odd and infantile for an adult to blow on their food. My DH used to do the sucking-in-air thing over a mouthful of hot food and I found it so irritating (I asked him to stop and he has). I don't see why an adult can't just politely wait two minutes for their food to cool. I'm amazed so many people think it's normal to blow (which doesn't actually help, anyway...)

YABU

YABU.

Some food really retains heat and takes ages to cool down.

If I'm eating ice cream with a spoon, I instinctively blow on it. I don't know why, as I can eat breakfast cereal or yoghurt without doing it.

Why is it a bad habit?

Honestly?!

at splitting up with someone because of blowing on food. Like a previous poster, I tend to blow on a forkful by forkful basis rather than huffing over the complete plateful.

I can see me maybe being a bit scunnered if the person was blowing all over the place and droplets of spit were flying about rather than air.

Ok, am glad I'm not completely on my own then.

We were always taught to take a small forkful of food from the edge/ top, where it is cooler anyway, and if it is still too hot, to wait a minute. Unless I'm ravenous and alone, then I shovel it in and burn my mouth . But generally, I wait.

it's a disgusting habit
"Disgusting" HOW? So, so very confused.

I think it's fine to dump a food blower if it really bugs you that much. I'd happily dump a whistler or a sniffer or a knuckle cracker.............

I could go on.