piping hot

From Middle English. First attested circa second half of 14th century, from the similarity between the sizzling sound of food cooking in a frying pan and that of musical pipes, from Canterbury Tales http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2383 by Geoffrey Chaucer: :: "He singeth brokking¹ as a nightingale. / He sent her piment, mead, and spiced ale, / And wafers² piping hot out of the glede³: / And, for she was of town, he proffer'd meed." :: ¹ quavering, ² cakes, ³ coals

• "Watch out — that curling iron is still piping hot."
• "You will see that my breakfast is piping hot, And rub the clothes to a snowy whiteness"
• "Cook until tender in a moderate oven (350° F.)—allow about 2½ hours. Turn occasionally for even cooking. Remove the strings before serving. Serve piping hot with gravy made from the pan drippings, or chill and serve cold."

• hissing hot
• boiling hot
• scalding hot
• smoking hot
• steaming hot
• steaming
• hot
• choleric
• heated

• freezing cold
• freezing
• ice-cold
• icy
• algid
• Arctic
• Baltic
• boreal
• brass monkeys
• brumal
• chill
• chilled
• chilly
• clay-cold
• cold
• cold as a mackerel
• cold as charity
• freezing
• frosty
• frore
• frozen
• gelid
• glacial
• hiemal
• icy
• inclement
• nesh
• nippy
• parky
• polar
• sleety
• snowy
• taters
• wintry