How do we describe 'food that has gone cold/food that has gone stale?'


As the title suggests, I am wondering how do we describe food which has gone
stale or food that has gone cold after being left out there for too long? I
checked jisho and 大辞林 but I did not manage to find anything conclusive. Thanks
for any help!




For food that has gone cold (doesn't need to be so cold, but like coffee that
is not hot enough anymore) you use 冷める, so in most cases a structure like
冷めてしまったスープ works best.

I am not a native English speaker (either), so I don't fully understand "gone
stale", but I think there are many different ways to describe food that are no
longer in their optimum state. E.g. for noodles that have swollen when kept
too long in the soup, you use "ラーメンが伸びた". For bread that became hard,かたくなった,
for vegetables くさった etc.




For food that has gone cold (doesn't need to be so cold, but like coffee that
is not hot enough anymore) you use 冷める, so in most cases a structure like
冷めてしまったスープ works best.

I am not a native English speaker (either), so I don't fully understand "gone
stale", but I think there are many different ways to describe food that are no
longer in their optimum state. E.g. for noodles that have swollen when kept
too long in the soup, you use "ラーメンが伸びた". For bread that became hard,かたくなった,
for vegetables くさった etc.

