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?

Louise then I can only hope that if my attendance is required at an All Souls dinner it will be as nameless serving wench who scoffs cherry tarts in the kitchens, merrily spitting the stones out onto the floor while humming a bawdy sea shanty.

I'm with the people who say waiting for the whole plate to be cool would render the last few mouthfuls too cool.

Surely you'd have to be wolfing it if you were going to wait until the whole food (and how anyway, the middle is hotter than the outside) is perfect eating temperature, and then consume the entire meal while it's still at perfect eating temperature.

Why is it okay for under fives but not over? As I said I've never heard of this age cut off before.

I do remember a hilarious judgy thread years ago though about parents who feed their babies yoghurt and smooth the spoonful of yoghurt into a little pyramid with their mouth before they give it to them

Squoosh - I'd pay good money to see that!

Why would you smooth yoghurt into a pyramid? Who the fuck has time for such nonsense?

Why would you smooth yoghurt into a pyramid? Who the fuck has time for such nonsense?

same people bothered by blowing on food?

I'm sure blowing on food has little effect on its temperature. I tell my daughter to do it mainly as it gives her something to do whilst waiting for it to cool. It's entirely psychological in adults imo.

I'm sure blowing on food has little effect on its temperature. I tell my daughter to do it mainly as it gives her something to do whilst waiting for it to cool. It's entirely psychological in adults imo.

you clearly haven't experienced wind chill. or a breeze.

I'm sure blowing on food has little effect on its temperature. I tell my daughter to do it mainly as it gives her something to do whilst waiting for it to cool. It's entirely psychological in adults imo

^ of course it has an effect, it's science innit

basically, it removes the hot air or steam away from just above the food, so that more heat can escape into the now cooler air

and as for the smoothing baby food into shape with your mouth, IMO that's partly to check the temp but also to encourage the baby to want to eat it as you appear to be eating it. That's why I did it anyway.

People have no patience with eating and take no time over a meal.
That is why we are all getting bigger. People shovel it down like hogs on a farm.
YANBU grokle

I didn't realise that blowing on your food was the cause for nationwide obesity.

No with a yoghurt it's to remove yoghurt from the underside of the spoon to reduce the chance that the baby will spread it everywhere. I'm sure I did it automatically when I was sufficiently bothered to feed DS, the rest of the time he tended to smear everything in his hair anyway.

I don't see why blowing is seen to equal shovelling food. I eat really slowly but I blow.

And I am not obese either.

The ice cubes are for hot drinks not hot food

Apologies. Putting ice cubes in a cup of tea it is clearly less risible than putting ice cubes in hot food.

The putting your child's yoghurt into your mouth to make geometric shapes with it sounds disgusting, have never seen or heard that before. If there was stuff on the bottom of the spoon when i was feeding my kids I just scraped the bottom of the spoon against yoghurt pot/ bowl to remove it anyway.
People develop some strange habits.

You know, when you actually find out about all the things considered 'correct etiquette' and listed in debrett's, it actually makes you really glad to be as common as get out. I'm very glad no one has ever insisted that I adhere to nonsense like crumbling scones and then trying to butter them, breaking your roll up, buttering each crumb and then trying to eat it

I'd never even heard of debrett's before MN.

If someone served me an apple or a pear on a dessert plate it wouldn't even occur to me that I was supposed to (a) wait for cutlery and (b) peel it. I'd already have picked it up and bitten into it. That's how one should eat apples!

It depends though!

a discreet blow is not the same as a saliva explosion birthday cake blow that toddlers adults do is it.

I already posed to say I do blow on my food due to being a slow eater.
I would be quite insulted if someone said I had bad manners though as actually I'm quite careful how I do it.

I have to keep explaining to DS2 that you're not supposed to blow a raspberry at your food. Apart from anything else, it's totally inefficient.