To not heat my dinner plate?

My oven literally has a plate warming function.

I dont always heat my plates but I’d say I often do. It also depends what the food is. Things like veg or beans that go cold very easily I prefer to warm the plate. I can’t stand cold food.

I’m also confused as to why people think not heating plates makes the food go cold

Because of physics. It's not an opinion, it's the second law of thermodynamics.

You think hot plates is odd. My mother insists that her tea cup is swilled with boiling water from the freshly boiled kettle and then emptied to "heat the cup". Immediately before adding a teabag and some more boiling water, which is clearly just not enough to do the trick.

I never heat my plate but my home is nice and warm, and the food I serve seems to stay warm too.

My DM used to do it all the time until the day when she was complaining about having to hack baked on food from the plates when doing the washing up, and I pointed out to her that it would slide right off if the plates weren't so hot when she dished up.

Eh? What has cold gravy got to do with being racist?!

Gosh I hate smug posts like this.

Perfectly possible to still talk to people without warming plates. Having cold plates does not make someone a savage.

It's definitely this. One flat we lived in the cupboard where we kept the plates was on an exterior wall, plus it had horrendously expensive storage heaters, so we didn't bother turning on the kitchen one since we spent so little time in there and when we did we were cooking so we had the warmth from the cooker anyway. In winter the plates would feel like you'd just taken them out of the fridge. Helpful for small DC (though didn't affect their plastic plates as much as our ceramic ones!) but it used to drive me crazy because your food would be lukewarm within minutes. Certain things seem to cool down much more quickly than others as well so if we were having spaghetti bolognese the sauce would be hot/warm but the spaghetti around the edges would be stone cold. Or if DH made a cooked breakfast with scrambled egg, the egg would get cold and rubbery and contrast unpleasantly with the warm sausage and lukewarm beans.

It might be that people are more or less sensitive to this though, it never really bothered DH and it REALLY bothers me, unless it's part of the experience e.g. a hot brownie with ice cream, I really really don't like hot and cold food mixing in my mouth.

Why is everyone's food going cold so quickly? 🤣

I personally hate boiling hot food that you cant enjoy for 10 minutes incase you scald your mouth.

Nothing worse than hoit food put onto cold plates.

You've led a charmed life @Hadalifeonce 🙂

You serve salad in a separate (cold) bowl, alongside the hot plate. I don't understand why everyone doesn't do this!

Even worse than her faffing about with heating plates is my MILs insistence on plates and cutlery for eating a fish supper. The eye brows getting raised when you use your fingers...you have to just treat it as funny and enjoy winding her up or you'd go mad.

Cold plate cold dinner. Yuck

Always heat plates...... hot food on cold plates is vile.

I always do it (unless having salad as part of the meal). My gran was a stickler for it. She used to massively judge my uncle (in a lighthearted way) for not doing it when we ate at his house.

YANBU. My MIL is exactly the same and I think she's barking! Absolutely unnecessary.

I always heat plates. Maybe it's a generational thing, but perhaps younger people do not realise how much colder houses used to be. When I was a child central heating wasn't common, you usually just heated the living room, so having a hot meal that was still hot when you got it was very nice.
It could also be a left-over from the type of food that was served... a tepid congealed roast with two veg is a lot less palatable than a merely warm slice of pizza or bowl of chilli.

There is a reason why restaurants serve food on hot plates and it's nothing to do with older generations or cold houses.

Not particularly.

My Mum started doing it when Sunday Roast numbers expanded due to partners/grandchildren - dishing up took longer.
She put them in a pile in the microwave. It's not something she'd ever done before and I'm sure my Nan didnt.

My kitchen is a bit chilly, particularly in the winter. And my plates are stoneware, so if they are cold (or room temperature) they will make any freshly cooked meal go tepid or cool by the time you sit down to eat. I never used to heat my plates, but now I do (in this house). If I have the oven on, they’ll go in for a minute or two at the end after I’ve turned it off, not usually long enough to need oven gloves. Sometimes I use the hot tap.

I only really do it in winter when it's so cold that the food will get cold fast. I just bung them in the microwave for a minute.

We used to, for probably the first 15 years of marriage. Can no longer be bothered.

I would heat hers though as it's clearly important to her.

I don't think your DH is being weird at all. He prefers a heated plate, bit can't bother to do it himself.

Roast dinners & pasta, I hear the plates because the spaghetti & broccoli go cold quickly.

Anything else, not as fussed.

Both of us grew up warming plates and still do it now. It definitely keeps food hotter for longer.

It doesn’t have to take extra energy or water resources either. My parents had a warming rack attached to the grill, and it would warm up the plates using the heat from the grill, oven, or stovetop, as appropriate.

We use the bottom of our grill oven just above the main oven in a similar way - essentially it’s the top of the main oven and warms up nicely while cooking.

I warm pasta bowls in the steam from the cooking pasta. Granted, I have to wipe them down, but it’s quick and effective.

I think it depends, I’d heat the plates if doing a roast, partly cause oven is on anyway and also gravy loses temp fast on a cold plate. Wouldn’t bother for say pasta as a generous portion will nicely warm the plate by itself.