Hanbao is one of the most popular foods in the world, and have you ever thought: Why do people usually grab Hanbao directly with their hands to eat? It feels much better to use a knife and fork to handle the food in the plate elegantly; it is also true that the fried fish potatoes wrapped in papers are particularly delicious (at least before some people think that it is not healthy if they use papers to wrap food). Now, I have to admit that to explain the pleasantness and lack of food, the latter (with papers to wrap food) is much more cumbersome than the former (with hands to grab Hanbao). Think carefully, you will be surprised to find that many foods are eaten directly with your hands, which tastes more delicious. It is hard to blame Chaikley, the well-known American chef. Zachary Pelaccio has a cooking book called "Eat With Your Hands", which can really be said to be "popular".
Now, people no longer only use their hands when eating fast food, and high-end dishes are no exception.
More and more Michelin three-star restaurants have no tableware or allow guests to use new types of tableware. It is interesting to say that in a cuisine composed of multiple dishes, foods that need to be eaten with hands are often served first rather than later. I have not yet studied the reason for this. If you have any relevant information, please make sure to let me know.
Many people came to me and told me that the food I grabbed with my hands tasted better, especially for Indians, who have used their dual skills from childhood to adulthood. Many people also think that once tableware is used to help feed, the food seems to lose its taste. Yang. Yann Martel's novel "The Life of Pi" is set in India ) also mentioned this point:
"When I first went to an Indian restaurant in Canada, I was planning to grab food with my hands, and the service looked at me seriously and said, "You've just arrived here, right?" His words made my face pale. Just the second before the taste buds were ready to feel the food in their mouth, under his eyes, my fingers became dirty things, they were like arrested criminals, and they were also moved I didn't even dare to lick my fingers. I wiped my hands with a paper towel guiltily. He didn't know how deep these words hurt me. Every word and sentence inserted into my flesh and blood like a kettle. My shaking hands picked up a knife and fork that I had never used before. The spices and lentils and vegetables were lost when they poured out the taste of the food.I always wanted to compare the results of everyone's comments on the taste of the food when using hands, knife and fork or chopsticks. Of course, the answer is related to the type of food and cooking style. Not to mention the way each diner treats food or the growth background, which will also affect the answer. Nevertheless, there are indeed some interesting experiment results that holding food in your hands can really affect how it tastes. For example, my colleague McCor. Michael Barnett-Cowan conducted a study in Canada. He wanted to stick the butterfly puffs that were broken into two and a half. Some of the two and a half butterfly puffs had the same texture: they were fresh or both fresh or damp; some were different: they were sticking the fresh and damp. Think about it, you may be holding the fresh half with your fingers, and eating the half with your mouth is the moisture half, or the opposite. The research results show that the touch felt by the fingers will definitely affect the subject's evaluation of the food taste.
This is another simple movement that anyone can do. Next time I ask my friend to come to your house for a meal, remember not to put out tableware. A few readers may care about the idea of the Guide to Etiquette published by Debrett on eating with their hands, and let me tell you the good news: the 2012 edition of the Guide to the Gifts finally agreed that a public with a gifted society could also eat with their hands, at least Pizza, calzone and ice cream cones are fine. No matter what, remember to lick your fingers clean after eating!
In addition, eating with the first-time appointment is also a good point, provided you are willing to believe the results of a recent experiment with two thousand subjects: men think women make a group of erotic sexiness when they eat with their hands. You understand this! (If you happen to be a man and want to leave a good impression on the first date, remember not to order salad for the main course.)
This article is excerpted from "Delicious Science"
Author: Charles. Charles Spence
Publisher: Shang and Zhou Publishing
●Author Introduction
Charles. Charles Spence, Professor of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, UK, Director of the Intersensory Research Laboratory.
Over the past twenty years, we have studied how people perceive the world and won the reputation of multiple sensory cognition and physical experience designers.