[wpFWNoIt]

Because your tongue is....wet?

[hernkingAnank]

Originally posted by BeBro
Because your tongue is....wet? Not enough water on there to make a difference imo. I takes not a second to transfer heat.

Take ice for example. I can keep it on my tongue for hours without it freazing solid. I cant do that to an injury without having the body part getting numb. I eat ice all the time in summer, and my tongue never became numb.

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[Paybeskf]

Sissy tongue wimp.



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[E4qC1qQ5]

I'm a tongue wimp. I hate hot food (hot as in hot, not as in hot)

if you are still confused I hate food that is of a high temperature.

[Thigmaswams]

I think the tongue is pretty effective at dispersing heat. I mean in various mammals and reptiles it tends to be used for just that purpose.

It stands to reason that the tongue is highly conductive to heat otherwise it would not fulfill this role very well. This means the heat is safely dispersed.

With the ice cubes - the tongue has a tremendous ability to HEAT them. It's body temperature, meaning, part of the core circulatory system. Extremities can be cooled, the blood can be colder - sometimes significantly colder - than the core temperature. Not so with the tongue, it pretty much remains at core body temperature because of that core blood flow, meaning unlike extremities which cool down, the tongue can heat ice all day (or until you become hypothermic hahah).