Do you think the utensil you use affects how your food tastes?

I really love how the McDonald’s hot fudge sundaes taste with the plastic spoon.
But that’s about the only thing I can think of that tastes better with take-out utensils.

I am totally with you on this, Nimis. I’m the same way about drinks, too. They taste different, depending on what you’re drinking out of.

@Aug: Very true about the drinks.
Also, those wooden “spoons” that came with the little cups of ice cream. Definitely made a (bad) difference.

Aug: Yes! My SO always argue about which water tastes better, Fiji or Voss.
I say they’re both good, but Voss is superior because of the glass packaging.
Especially so if it’s got a fine sheen of condensation to boot.

Oop.
My SO and I always argue.

Psst…Nimis: Come over here. It’s bright and happy, here!

I’m very weird about my drinks…I mostly drink Sprite Zero, which must be in a can. When I drink regular Sprite, I prefer it in a bottle. Either way, I want it refrigerated in it’s original container. No, thank you to a glass or ice. Can’t stand to drink anything out of a plastic cup – except water in a disposable plastic cup (those big red ‘beer’ cups). If I must have a cup, it had better be glass.

absolutely. taste is multi-sensory. Even beyond the few examples (cheap plastic, those little wooden spoons mentioned above) that actually impart a flavor to the food, the subjective experience of eating is impacted by your tools.

yes! that is why i use my hands (sometimes) :P
and yes, i know how to eat rice with my hands… another :P
i love eating local Filipino food with my hands ^__^

Aug: Effervescent even!

Kfi: True, taste is multi-sensory. It obviously involves our olfactory senses for one.
But how to distinguish this subjective experience as taste (apart from our other senses)?
Is the difference between eating with a metal (versus plastic) utensil attributed to taste?

very much so. the platic does taste differant the the metal ones.

Beer tastes far better from a bottle than a can, I find.

I don’t think utensils really change the way things taste, but using real metal utensils is more pleasant than plastic or wooden ones.

I was just thinking about this yesterday – I gotta have a real glass!

I think my food tastes better and looks better when it has been cooked in a cast iron pan. Something about that cast iron pan – more authentic? the work I have put into seasoning it? It’s previous history?

Amen to the cast iron. It’s a combination of its high, even heat and a “flavor history.”

Same reason I don’t clean out the inside of my Weber charcoal grill too much – I keep the grill grate clean and clean the ashes, but leave the smoky muck layer inside the kettle.

no it tastes the same with whatever utinsels you use

Things taste better using your fingers..

@Jasonbucy except maybe soup….

@DandyDear711 Long time, no Fluther! Welcome back.

Absolutely no question:

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