Not only does keeping your mouth closed, eating slower and smaller portions, and being mindful when you eat help you eat without sounds, it also helps you to enjoy your food more and savor every bite. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. How To Chew Quietly: 9 Methods. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Welcome to Soundproof Panda, I'm Dan, I live very close to an internationally famous stadium which generates an awful lot of noise that I'd rather block out.
This is my place to document what I've learnt on my soundproofing journey. Unfortunately, loud chewing is one of the trickiest situations to navigate, especially when you're trying to keep your manners in check —and that's all the more reason to hash it out here.
OK, first things first: You have to assess the offender's general disposition. Do they respond to criticism well? Are they outgoing? Do you consider them a friend? The answers to these questions matter when it comes to commenting on someone else, even when it's as simple as their mastication habits. So, let's consider the ideal scenario: This person appears to take criticism well, they're outgoing and you consider them a friend.
One approach is to offer to take said coworker out to lunch —don't make a big deal out of this, no "we need to talk" business. Thank your friend for letting you rant and then ask them, appreciatively and with all the genuine curiosity you can muster, "I really feel like I need to say something, but I don't know how. How would you deal with this? Then sit back and let your friend give you advice—it'll force them to really consider how irritating this faux pas can be and how it truly causes you to suffer, and because it concerns someone else, they're judging it from a distance.
Then, as soon as your sensible salads hit the table, pay attention to their inevitable chewing. If it's quieted down, even just a little, you're on the passive-aggressive path to success. Congrats, champ. On the flip side, if your answer is no to any of the initial questions, really the only thing left to do is to go to HR. It might be uncomfortable, but if it spurs a change without creating a mess of your nine-to-five life, it's well worth it. That's literally what they're there for, after all.
And, hey, worst comes to worst, maybe HR will let you expense a pair of those noise-canceling headphones. Those babies can be pricy. Well, that's that, ladies and gents. As always, keep it classy and keep the noise down. But you're probably not imagining it I'm sure some of it is related to the quantity in his gob, also. Sometimes he fills his fork incredibly full and then chews very slowly and carefully. I think because he hates western food and thinks if he takes fewer mouthsfull, he is eating less of it.
I shall look forward to other answers in order to preserve my sanity and my beloved husband's dignity. Since people are suggesting it might just sound loud to you, you could try using an external recorder to see how it sounds outside your head. And compare to how other people sound, to you, from about the same distance.
She eats with her mouth closed but it doesn't matter. I know a couple of people who seem to bang their teeth together really loudly.
It's very odd. I never hear other people's molars meeting each other as they chew, but these people seem to really chew hard or something. So watch that. Another person I know - a kid from another culture - makes a lot of noise when he has dinner with us. I was trying to figure out the other night how so much noise comes from a closed mouth. Maybe if you keep our tongue stuck to the roof of your mouth as much as possible while you chew, that might help.
The back of your tongue, too. I'm chewing as type this to observe what is happening in my mouth. My son thinks I'm nuts. Since I'm eating dinner right now I did an experiment, and discovered the amount of noise I make is directly proportion to how vigorous I move my tongue and how far I open my jaw.
When I tried to make as much noise as possible with my mouth closed I moved my tongue all over the place and could make all sorts of sloppy wet sounds--even with no food in my mouth.
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