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AIBU?

....to not heat our dinnerplates?

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LaContessaDiPlumpOnSea · 23/10/2016 18:15

MIL does. I don't.

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TaterTots · 23/10/2016 18:16

Heat every time.

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IfartInYourGeneralDirection · 23/10/2016 18:16

I dont, dp does. I do like a warm pkate but can never be arsed

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Lilaclily · 23/10/2016 18:16

I don't
Food is served hot, we sit down and eat, no time for it to go cold

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PinkSwimGoggles · 23/10/2016 18:16

yanbu
what's the point?

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alwayshappy101 · 23/10/2016 18:17

I don't heat plates.don't see the need if dinner piping hot when served Smile

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SpotTheDuck · 23/10/2016 18:17

Think it depends how cold your house is, I don't bother at home but do when visiting family. Quickest way is just to run them under the hot tap.

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SwedishEdith · 23/10/2016 18:17

Never do. I know you're meant to but cba.

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WeirdAndPissedOff · 23/10/2016 18:18

I couldn't be arsed with that much faffing about!
Plus hot plates make me nervous anyway.

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Starwarsorbaby · 23/10/2016 18:18

Yabu. Very very u. Food goes cold quicker. Dh forgot to heat the plates the other night. By the time I was finished I was eating cold broccoli Envy (sick face)

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bumsexatthebingo · 23/10/2016 18:18

YANBU. My mil does this too and apparently can't eat food off a plate that hasn't been prewarmed. I put hot food on the plate and that heats it up fine. Never had food turn to shit because the plate hasn't been warmed.

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Sparklesilverglitter · 23/10/2016 18:18

I do, I'm a slow eater so if I put my dinner on a cold plate my dinner ends up cold

DH heats as well

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Rumtopf · 23/10/2016 18:19

Sometimes if I think of it.
Normally when doing a roast and we sit and chat and eat at the table in a leisurely manner.

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ThisIsStartingToBoreMe · 23/10/2016 18:20

hot plates are definitely nicer IMO.

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Bluesrunthegame · 23/10/2016 18:20

In an ideal world, yes, maybe warm plates. But if I'm serving some sort of huge complicated meal, it's not the end of the world if teh plates aren't warm.

My ex MIL felt differently and once kept us waiting at the dining table, with the food on serving dishes, in my house, while she faffed about in the kitchen warming plates. So we had cold food on warm plates. (I admit I may have got to the end of my tether with her that weekend and may have allowed some PA irritation to take over.)

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ClaudiaNaughton · 23/10/2016 18:20

Two plates in microwave for 1 min 30 secs with Lakeland rubber discs on them. Perfect.

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venusinscorpio · 23/10/2016 18:20

I do it if cooking for others but not if it's just me.

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Eatthecake · 23/10/2016 18:21

I always do as does DH

I don't like being given dinner on a plate that is cold. By time the baby has been helped with his food either me or DH ends up with cold food.

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JustCallMeKate · 23/10/2016 18:21

I don't heat ours but we use dining stones as I'm very slow at eating. I used to heat the plates before DH bought the dining stones though.

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venusinscorpio · 23/10/2016 18:21

Will have to look into the rubber discs!

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pennycarbonara · 23/10/2016 18:24

Is it partly a generational thing? Lots of mentions of MILs. I don't think I know anyone who does this now (except as a side effect of microwaving food), but when I was a kid, some schoolfriends' parents warmed plates specially, in the oven.

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Ohyesiam · 23/10/2016 18:24

I can't BEAR eating from hot plates. This is in reaction to my mother who serves food on burning hot plates and makes a MASSIVE fuss about it.Every. Single. Bloody. Meal.


And breathe.

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AutumnSunday · 23/10/2016 18:27

Dp does, I can't be bothered.

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AutumnSunday · 23/10/2016 18:28

If we ever get a takeaway he always sends a text, warm the plates, on my way!

No Hmm

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MoveItMoveItMoveIt · 23/10/2016 18:28

I do when I remember as some food I find goes cold very quickly when served on a cold plate.

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