why is it that hot stuff that would normaly burn the skin is okay to put in the mouth?

Question

microwaved raman once spilled on someone and burned them but normaly cook ramen at that time and temp and eat it and it's fine.

Answer 1

One word - moisture.
It doesn't completely protect, but it helps.
I have heard of kids who take things right out of the microwave and burn their throats by swallowing hot liquids before checking with their hands to see how hot anything is.

Answer 2

You would normally blow on Ramen noodles. I dont think you can just eat it that way. The inside of our mouth can withstand a higher temperature maybe because it is already 98 degrees in there. Our skin is thin, and not designed to handle extreme temperatures.

Answer 3

It's not, if you put something hot in your mouth it will burn the inside of your mouth just like your skin. As for the soup, if its hot u usually blow on it before putting it in your mouth, therefore cooling off the soup. If you shove it down your throat while its hot it will burn.

Answer 4

Haven't you ever burned your tongue on hot soup??
That hurts like heck.

For one thing, a whole bowlful of hot liquid is much more likely to burn somebody than a spoonful is.

For another, by the time you actually eat it, it has cooled off some.

Answer 5

well our mouth can take it as it is actually tougher than our skin our mouth gets burned too ..microwave cooking is hot i woudl get my tongue burned that wya so i think it was a fluke perhaps all at once would burn badly we sip slowly the stuff in our mouths- also our internal temp is higher than outter

Answer 6

you'll locate that you're adverse your self from those boiling warm drinks interior the destiny once you get old and function complications, type of like pores and skin maximum cancers if you're youthful you may want to be attractive and brown and carefree, then you get old and also you seem as if leather-depending and are said. i imagine that the wear is carried out over the years and by no ability as significant at present.

Answer 7

The mouth does not have as many nerve sensors as your skin does so it does not register pain as easily. It can still be burned though!

Answer 8

Your mouth has a special cooling system designed so you won't burn yourself on normally hot things.

Answer 9

Because our mouth have the capacity to absorb to heal by itself,through the help of saliva.

Answer 10

Your mouth has a protective layer of liquid