It's Actually A Mistake To Eat Your Food Piping Hot - Chowhound

Lots of different foods benefit from being left alone for a little while once they're out of the oven. For example, when you let freshly cooked meat cool off, you're allowing it to finish "carry-over cooking," where heat inside the food is still cooking the meat. Letting meat rest also gives it time for the juices to rise up through the muscle fibers, so nothing leaks when you cut it open. Advertisement Letting…