Do you heat up pork pies?

FurForksSake · 2025-11-05T23:05:18+00:00

I’ve never heated one in my life, but I’m discovering some people bake the ones you buy in the supermarket and then serve them warm / hot, maybe with peas? if you would be so kind as to let me know where you’re from, I want to know if it’s a geographic thing!!

Oldraver · 08/11/2025 00:11

My partner warms them and has peas with them

I like them at room temperature

Isseywith2witchycats · 07/11/2025 10:16

I normally eat mine cold but at a biker do the pork pies were heated served with mushy peas and mint sauce surprisingly they actually taste really nice done this way , but wouldn't normally do this still prefer mine cold

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FurForksSake · 07/11/2025 10:05

Ah, well perhaps we’ll go to beamish next October and try one there. I also want some chips and to go on the tram again.

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mamagogo1 · 07/11/2025 07:36

Nope, whole point is it’s a cold snack

stillhiding1990 · 07/11/2025 07:34

liveforsummer · 07/11/2025 06:45

Greggs abound in central Scotland. You’ve never seen one of their sausage rolls? Or all the sausage rolls sold by the supermarkets or most local bakers ? I’m wondering how you’ve missed these! Most sausage rolls are made with puff pastry?!

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Ah sorry I meant shortcrust sorry

liveforsummer · 07/11/2025 06:45

stillhiding1990 · 06/11/2025 20:09

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a puff pastry sausage roll - central Scotland.

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Greggs abound in central Scotland. You’ve never seen one of their sausage rolls? Or all the sausage rolls sold by the supermarkets or most local bakers ? I’m wondering how you’ve missed these! Most sausage rolls are made with puff pastry?!

GordonRamsey · 07/11/2025 06:38

Mumdiva99 · 07/11/2025 05:11

I used to work at a football stadium up north. The pies were meat pies. Beef and potato. Not a pork pie with gravy. They were flatter and held in one hand. I never understood the appeal - but would have one with brown sauce if offered as never one to turn down a freebie.

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Actually that does sound more plausible, a meat and potato pie in one hand and then a rattle in t'other (as they would say up North).

I did suspect that the Vicar, who told me, might sometimes tell 'pork pies' (as they say down South). He also said that Earth was only 6,000 years old.

liveforsummer · 07/11/2025 06:35

Surely it would turn in to a slippy ball of grease with the amount of combined fat in the pastry, meat and jelly layer! 😬. On the subject of scotch eggs, I’d never heat one up but hot freshly baked ones are lovely!

CoastalCalm · 07/11/2025 06:08

Never done it but recently had one hot from the oven at Beamish museum and it was delicious

sashh · 07/11/2025 05:38

Mumdiva99 · 07/11/2025 05:11

I used to work at a football stadium up north. The pies were meat pies. Beef and potato. Not a pork pie with gravy. They were flatter and held in one hand. I never understood the appeal - but would have one with brown sauce if offered as never one to turn down a freebie.

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Different side of the Pennines I suppose. Yorkshire has pork pies, Lancashire has meat or meat and potato pies.

swimsong · 07/11/2025 05:16

FurForksSake · 05/11/2025 23:18

if you heat them up does the wobbly jelly become a liquid again? What’s the pastry like hot? Do they become crispier?

Yes the jelly turns into hot juice - it's fantastic. Pastry will soften a bit in a microwave but crisp up in an air fryer. Hot pork pies are excellent with mushy peas and thinly sliced onions blanched in boiled vinegar. I'm from west Yorkshire. We used to get microwaved solo pork pies from lunch shops to eat from a paper bag while walking round town.

Mumdiva99 · 07/11/2025 05:11

GordonRamsey · 06/11/2025 04:21

I recall that someone told me that hot pork pies and a mug of Bovril was 'de riguer' at football matches 'up North', although with today's sophisticated attendees a croissant with a polystyrene cup of Earl Grey tea is now the preferred choice in the stands.

I used to work at a football stadium up north. The pies were meat pies. Beef and potato. Not a pork pie with gravy. They were flatter and held in one hand. I never understood the appeal - but would have one with brown sauce if offered as never one to turn down a freebie.

sashh · 07/11/2025 05:02

Lincslady53 · 06/11/2025 16:30

DH was born and bred in Melton Mowbray, his uncle was a baker who made them. We now live near Merseyside, and it seems to be very common in these parts. DH is horrified by this barbaric practice and think that all who do so should be banished to some cold dark place till they acknowledge the error of their ways.

But his uncle must have baked them. Raw pastry, filled with meat and jelly then put in the oven to cook.

@FurForksSake Scotch eggs should be fresh from the fryer with the yolk slightly runny. The ones o supermarket shelves don't count.

lazyarse123 · 06/11/2025 22:20

We've microwaved them with real mushy peas, not tinned. We're in Yorkshire.
Dh doesn't eat them any more, he's pre-diabetic and very disciplined.
I on the other hand am partial to a cold pork pie with brown sauce.

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FurForksSake · 06/11/2025 22:15

Fijit pie sounds like a little bit of me. I’ll look out for those.

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MindfulSis · 06/11/2025 21:42

I'm from a family of butchers who used to make pork pies and I can't imagine the gelatine being nice when heated up. We always had them cold and I'm from the Midlands.

Diddlysqat · 06/11/2025 21:24

Should have read fijit not fight

WonderingAndOverthinking · 06/11/2025 21:23

No to the pork pies.

Sausage rolls and Scotch eggs -always warmed up.

Diddlysqat · 06/11/2025 21:20

Also in our part of world you can get a fight pie 2/3 pie meat remaining third topped off with stuffing and chopped sweet pack apple (the ready prepared apple mix some bakers use for their apple pies, are fijit pies made elsewhere ?

Borborygmus · 06/11/2025 20:36

Hot pork pies are yummy, we sometimes used to have them when I was a child some 50+ years ago. I'd forgotten all about them until reading this thread, but will definitely be giving them another try.

Istanbol · 06/11/2025 20:34

Alittlefrustrated · 06/11/2025 17:12

I'll never forget the horror of biting into a cold pork pie. Never touched a pork pie again.

That must have been a bad pork pie. A great pork pie leaves you wanting more. I only buy them from the butchers. Supermarket ones are a disgrace, fatty and tasteless.

ZippyBlueViper · 06/11/2025 20:32

Torturedsoul · 05/11/2025 23:07

It's definitely done in some parts of Yorkshire. Pie and peas on bonfire night.

I'm yorkshire it must be a yorkshire thing, heated up with peas mash and loads of gravy. It's lush. My dad always done it when we were kids and I do it now. Just bang it in oven for 20 minutes

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FurForksSake · 06/11/2025 20:32

Oh I’d like a black pudding pork pie. I’ve just realised we didn’t have fish and chips over half term in Scotland and introduce the kids to the wonders of puddings.

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Istanbol · 06/11/2025 20:31

Yes heat up if having with mushy peas (and mint sauce), the rest of the time we eat them cold.

Diddlysqat · 06/11/2025 20:30

Somerset baker ,you don't need to be torn you can get black pudding pork pies 🙂 cubes of black pudding mixed in with the pork pie meat