Why would someone eat scolding hot oil... I'm not a science major but doesn't stuff tend to cool off after it was taken away from the source of heat... Also water has a fairly high specific heat ( 4.187 kj/kgK) so its much harder to change its temp. Oil is not so much, so i am assumeing when it is taken away from heat it cools off reasonably fast, so why would anyone ever want to take a bite of super hot oil.
I am not a science major and I Don't even have to take a chem class. So I might be an idiot but hey it's fun so why not.

But I think you are all over thinking it.... Why would anyone eat scolding hot oil? Also who heats up oil for a salad?