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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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MycroftSholmes · 06/11/2025 06:08

No!

SweetnsourNZ · 06/11/2025 06:06

Never had one. Have seen them in supermarkets before though. I'm originally from UK but now live in New Zealand.

Diddlysqat · 06/11/2025 05:28

Forgot to add from Yorkshire ,to those of u that save you're quality butchers pie to heat up i salute your will power ,mine are quickly snaffled (eaten)😊

Diddlysqat · 06/11/2025 05:17

I would not heat up a quality fresh butchers pie my local ones have lots of jelly lovely meat filling and pie crust ,but i do occasionally heat up the supermarket offerings that are chilled
with a softer pie crust and less jelly great as a quick winter meal with mushy peas and mint sauce or baked beens ,a guilty comfort food

MinnieBaldock · 06/11/2025 05:07

I think the whole point of the pork pie is the jelly is poured in after the pie is cooked, then left to set. Never had a heated up pork pie, but love pork pie mash, peas and Branston. Yum.

SpidersAreShitheads · 06/11/2025 04:25

FurForksSake · 05/11/2025 23:27

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

Aah, now you're talking. Hot Scotch eggs are the bees knees.

I only like Scotch eggs with the runny centres. I don't like the ones that are solid. The ones with the runny centres have to be eaten hot - I wouldn't dream of eating it cold. DP tried eating it cold (he normally has the solid Scotch eggs) and he said it was like eating an egg full of snot 😂

Honestly delicious warm. I have one for lunch sometimes.

Pork pies though are strictly only to be eaten cold. Even the (bloody expensive) gourmet ones that I buy at Christmas. They're perfect to accompany leftover turkey and some bubble and squeak.

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.

BeanQuisine · 06/11/2025 04:20

I sometimes make a pork pie to serve hot, but it's nothing like those little traditional ones. Filling is usually diced pork in a nice sauce with diced potato, onion, herbs and spices, peas etc. Shortcrust pastry with a puff pastry top.

Bjorkdidit · 06/11/2025 04:12

Surprised at this thread, didn't realise it was localised but absolutely yes in Leeds at least.

If anyone round here had a bonfire without hot pork pie, mushy peas and mint sauce there would be a riot. We had them when I was young and still do now.

We sometimes host a family bonfire party and I always go to Wilsons or Morrisons pie counter for a bulk order and lots of other people do too, massive queues. They also sell the mushy peas, but I make my own in a big pan borrowed from a friend's workplace.

Butterflystar76 · 06/11/2025 04:00

Yes! Decent pork pie from northern butchers (cured meat), heated up, mushy peas, gravy, mint sauce, maybe some pickled cabbage. Food of the gods… we had some brought down for our wedding reception and they went down a storm down south!

DoAWheelie · 06/11/2025 03:41

I do because I can't stand the texture of congealed fat. I prefer to heat them so it melts. Pastry also gets claggy when it's cold.

Fuzzywoo · 06/11/2025 03:39

BeatleHorn · 06/11/2025 03:32

You've gone wrong.

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You can't knock it until you've tried it.

Go on, come on over to the dark side. 🤗

TrickorTreacle · 06/11/2025 03:39

why is this a thread?

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

BeatleHorn · 06/11/2025 03:33

BlueEyedBogWitch · 06/11/2025 03:07

I used to think there was nothing more disgusting than a pork pie.

Now I know that there is.

A hot pork pie.

You've also gone wrong.

Pork pies sliced very thinly with a liberal spread of piccalilli are a delight.

BeatleHorn · 06/11/2025 03:32

Fuzzywoo · 06/11/2025 03:29

You don't know what you're missing. 😊

I'm from Leeds and one of my rare treats is to get a small pork pie and zap it in the microwave for a minute or so. It's so delicious warmed up!

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You've gone wrong.

BeatleHorn · 06/11/2025 03:31

Absolutely fucking not!

Yorkshire.

Fuzzywoo · 06/11/2025 03:29

InterestedDad37 · 05/11/2025 23:47

To heat a pork pie is basically very, very wrong indeed, and I will canvas my MP to introduce "Porky's Law", specifically to outlaw such a heinous act.
They should be eaten cold, with salad cream 😀

You don't know what you're missing. 😊

I'm from Leeds and one of my rare treats is to get a small pork pie and zap it in the microwave for a minute or so. It's so delicious warmed up!

BlueEyedBogWitch · 06/11/2025 03:07

I used to think there was nothing more disgusting than a pork pie.

Now I know that there is.

A hot pork pie.

pinkdelight · 06/11/2025 03:03

The hot pies up north that are had with peas aren’t pork pies by and large, they’re ’meat’ pies that are usually beef or beef and potato or some other mix if it’s a fancier place. You could get a pork pies heated up and it’d be okay but it’s not the standard pie for that kind of dish.

17to35 · 06/11/2025 02:31

From Lancashire and I have eaten hot pork pie about 60 years ago and yes, it is an abomination.

Topseyt123 · 06/11/2025 02:10

A heated up pork pie would be an utter atrocity and should be illegal!

I'm no longer a meat eater but when I still was I used to love pork pies - cold, served with pickled onions and salad.

Poodledoodley · 06/11/2025 02:03

FurForksSake · 05/11/2025 23:27

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

Canteen at my old work place served up hot scotch eggs. And they would have been heated up - no chance they had just been made. Risotto came ready made in frozen bags!

Fasterthanwitches · 06/11/2025 01:55

Oh god. I was shocked but now thinking sounds strangely appealing and might have to experiment 😬

Lastfroginthebox · 06/11/2025 01:23

Never. And I live near Melton Mowbray.