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Do you heat up pork pies?

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FurForksSake · 05/11/2025 23:05

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!!

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stillhiding1990 · 06/11/2025 20:25

Somersetbaker · 06/11/2025 20:22

You can't microwave them that would ruin the runny yolk, has to be in a real oven.

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Ok, people eat them cold as they don’t bring their oven to a picnic. I was responding to pp who asked why they would be eaten cold - the answer to that is because they are a picnic food

Somersetbaker · 06/11/2025 20:22

stillhiding1990 · 06/11/2025 20:10

Because they’re picnic food and most people don’t bring their microwaves!

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You can't microwave them that would ruin the runny yolk, has to be in a real oven.

Cantseetreesforthewood · 06/11/2025 20:13

Me: cold pork pies and scotch eggs

DH: heat the hell out of both.
Kids: sadly think DH's way is best....

The mini savory eggs they would eat cold tho.

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FurForksSake · 06/11/2025 20:12

My home made sausage rolls are puff. I also make a variety with different additions, the horror.

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stillhiding1990 · 06/11/2025 20:10

Annie202 · 06/11/2025 17:07

I have never eaten a cold Scotch Egg. Why would you have them cold?

Because they’re picnic food and most people don’t bring their microwaves!

stillhiding1990 · 06/11/2025 20:09

StewkeyBlue · 06/11/2025 08:32

Having grown up not too far from Melton Mowbray my cultural roots were twitching painfully at the thought of a hot pork pie!

And I am giving a hard stare and side eye to all the Yorkshire folk playing fast and loose with Leicestershire’s finest! God save us from Yorkshire Wrath if we mess about with Yorkshire Pudding or Parkin!

But to play devils advocate, there’s not that much difference between a sausage roll* and a pork pie if you tip it on its side , so….

*A proper sausage roll with short pastry, not puff.

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

FreddysFingers · 06/11/2025 19:57

No way.

Somersetbaker · 06/11/2025 19:57

FurForksSake · 06/11/2025 18:20

I’m so glad I posted this.

I totally forgot about the big scotch eggs, we often have the m&s gastro dine in starter of scotch eggs and indeed they do get heated through. I was thinking more of the tiny things, snack eggs / savoury eggs? Where the middle is chopped up / cuttes up pear eggs.

So does Skipton pie shop sell them all year? Are they best eaten in winter? Do I need to get on the A1 and not stop until I’m in Yorkshire?

My friends from Yorkshire would say hit the A1 and the pork pies are just a benefit when you get there, "God's chosen county and all that shit". I'm torn because I like Bury Black Pudding, from the other side of the Pennines!

Mangetouts · 06/11/2025 19:25

I've never heard of it. I'm now sitting dreaming of pork pies and chutney, maybe a pickled onion too.

Diddlysqat · 06/11/2025 19:16

The pie shop in Skipton does a chilli 🌶 pork pie that is so hot an oven is not necessary, if I remember right it has the devil's horns on top of pie crust( blows your head off ) many other speciality pies also sold

platinumanddiamonds · 06/11/2025 19:15

Ok so where’s the best place in Scotland to buy a smashing pork pie. To eat cold!

CinnamonBuns67 · 06/11/2025 18:26

Pork pies are firmly a cold party/picnic/little snack food. I've become recently aware some people heat them up and serve it with mushy peas 🤢 I live in Yorkshire and thought of it makes my stomach turn.

TheWibble · 06/11/2025 18:23

I didnt, until a friend i was visiting in Ireland did it, and I really enjoyed it. So now I have it cold in the summer, and warm it up in the colder months.

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FurForksSake · 06/11/2025 18:20

I’m so glad I posted this.

I totally forgot about the big scotch eggs, we often have the m&s gastro dine in starter of scotch eggs and indeed they do get heated through. I was thinking more of the tiny things, snack eggs / savoury eggs? Where the middle is chopped up / cuttes up pear eggs.

So does Skipton pie shop sell them all year? Are they best eaten in winter? Do I need to get on the A1 and not stop until I’m in Yorkshire?

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boulevardofbrokendreamss · 06/11/2025 17:56

God no

ihavebecomecomfortablynumb · 06/11/2025 17:12

A hot pork pie is amazing, but it’s got to be a proper pork pie from a butchers, not some cheap, plastic wrapped abomination from a supermarket.

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.

Moooooooooooooooooo · 06/11/2025 17:10

There’s a pork pie shop in Skipton, down the side of the church, by the river that sells hot pork pies (and cold ones for heathens) that are the food of the gods. Unless you’ve actually had one you can’t comment as you REALLY don’t know how damn good they are.

lostintranslation148 · 06/11/2025 17:09

I never have but I am intrigued.

Annie202 · 06/11/2025 17:07

I have never eaten a cold Scotch Egg. Why would you have them cold?

TonTonMacoute · 06/11/2025 17:05

Absolutely not!

Somersetbaker · 06/11/2025 17:05

ginasevern · 06/11/2025 16:58

I've known them be put in the fryer at chip shops and also "fancy" ones served warm (with a runny yoke) in gastro pub type places.

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Your talking about scotch eggs, but I have heard a story about a pork pie going in to the deep fryer (no idea if batter was involved), it was in Glasgow and many years ago, so I suppose it's quite possible. Pork pie from the oven yes, microwaved or deep fried no.

dailyconniptions · 06/11/2025 17:03

FurForksSake · 05/11/2025 23:27

Scotch eggs are safe right, no ones heating those up?

Scotch eggs are truly fab heated up, but I wouldn't dream of a hot pork pie.

ginasevern · 06/11/2025 16:58

FurForksSake · 05/11/2025 23:27

Scotch eggs are safe right, no ones heating those up?

I've known them be put in the fryer at chip shops and also "fancy" ones served warm (with a runny yoke) in gastro pub type places.

Daisydad · 06/11/2025 16:55

patchysmum · 06/11/2025 03:34

I love a hot pork pie with mushy peas and mint sauce, but has to good quality from a butchers

You are my kind of person! Food of the Gods.