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ลำดับตอนที่ #44 : Does eating from a bowl make food taste better?
“I’ve eaten
the same meal on a plate,” New Yorker Lily Kunin told the
NY Post recently. “It just wasn’t that good.” Others
too have claimed that
superfood salads and healthy meals served in bowls simply “taste better”.
It’s an assertion which sounds nonsensical to many – but
there could be some truth to it. It’s all to do with how a variety of sensory stimuli can impact our
perception of flavour and even our how full we feel after a meal.
The power of
colour and texture of food to influence taste has been well-documented – as has the importance of the type of
utensils used and
the materials they are made from.
The colour
red, for instance, can make sweets with exactly the same sugar content taste
sweeter than their non-red counterparts. And one peer-reviewed study, carried
out in a “realistic dining environment,” explored the fact that heavier cutlery seemed to increase
people’s perceptions of how valuable a meal is. But the results of such
experiments are sometimes quite varied – another found that yoghurt tasted “denser and more
expensive” when eaten with a light plastic spoon.
When it
comes to crockery,
all kinds of factors can come into play, says Charles Spence, an expert in the
psychology of taste at the University of Oxford.
“I certainly
believe that the plateware we use to eat from plays a role in what things
tastes like,” he says. “Everything from the texture, the temperature or the
feel or the plateware or bowl can fit into this.”
For one
thing, if bowl foodies are holding the bowl in their hands while eating,
increasing the vessel’s
weight could impact
their sense of satisfaction with the meal, even making the food taste “more
rich or intense”.
“There will
be this more general effect that if you’re holding a bowl that’s warm, you’ll perceive other people
around you as warmer,” says Spence. “You might be willing to pay more as a
result.”
Spence
carried out experiments with subjects to find out whether the size of the rim on a plate will
impact their perception of how much food is there. Portions of the same size seemed smaller to
diners when the size of the plate was increased.
“You could
put it the other way and say a bowl without a rim will more often be filled
right to the edge, giving the perception of there being more,” he suggests.
It’s
certainly true that restaurants have been experimenting with an unusual variety
of plateware in recent years in an effort to more deeply engage the senses of
their customers. It’s now common to have dishes served on chopping boards or slate – and now and again
you might even have a meal presented to you on something as odd as a
house brick.
“Bowl food”,
says Spence, could be a reaction to the weirdness of these trends – but also an
acknowledgement that plateware does matter and that some foods really do
benefit from being served in a particular way.
The research
and anecdotal
reports all point to a common idea, though. These days, it’s not so much about
what you eat – but how you eat it.
assertion (n.)
a statement that you strongly believe is true:
nonsensical (adj.)
sensory (adj.)
connected with the physical senses of touch, smell, taste, hearing, and sight
stimuli (n.)
something that causes growth or activity:
something
that causes part of the body to react:
utensils (n.)
a tool with a particular use, especially in a kitchen or house:
cutlery (n.)
knives, forks, and spoons used for eating food
dense (adj.)
having parts that are close together so that it is difficult to go or see through:
(of a substance) containing a lot of matterin a small space:
Crockery (n.)
cups, plates, bowls, etc., used to serve food and drink, especially made of china
vessel (n.)
a curved container that is used to hold liquid
a person who has a particular quality or who is used for a particular purpose:
a tube that carries liquids such as blood through the body:
impact (n.)
the force or action of one object hitting another:
a powerful effect that something, especially something new, has on a situation or person:
(v.)
to have an influence on something:
perceive (v.)
to come to an opinion about something, or have a beliefabout something:
to see something or someone, or to notice something that is obvious
rim (n.)
the outer, often curved or circular, edge of something:
Portions
(n.)
a part or share of something larger:
the amount of a particular food that is served to one person, especially in a restaurant or a shop that sells food ready to be eaten:
slate (n.)
a dark grey rock that can be easily divided into thinpieces, or a small, thin piece of this used to cover a roof
in the past, a small, thin, rectangular piece of slate (= rock), usually in a wooden frame, used for writing
on, especially by children
a list of people who are being considered for a particular job or position, especially in politics:
anecdotal (adj.)
Anecdotal information is not based on facts or careful study:
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