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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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GarlicBreadStan · 06/11/2025 01:17

I only used to eat the tiny Melton Mowbray pork pies, but I can say wholeheartedly: absolutely not. What a sensory nightmare that would be. (I hate all pies, always have, and pork pies have unfortunately made that list). I'm from East Yorkshire.

No judgement to anyone who does, of course. I just hate wet and warm food textures 😆

Howyoualldoworkme · 06/11/2025 01:13

No way, they're made to be eaten cold. With pickles.
Not that I've been able to eat one since I read A Kind of Loving 😬
Scotch eggs are quite nice heated up but you do get a lot of fat out of them.

Justcallmedaffodil · 06/11/2025 01:07

Definitely a thing here when I was growing up (Yorkshire) to have warm pork pie and peas on bonfire night. Unfortunately couldn’t tell you what it’s actually like OP as I can’t stand pork pies, warm or cold!

StElwicksNeighbourhoodAssociation · 06/11/2025 00:40

Ewww!

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 😀

Doingtheboxerbeat · 05/11/2025 23:41

I have only come across this once at a football match about 30 years ago and it was served with mushy peas . It was delicious but I was cold and hungry 😳.
It was Leeds at home if that's important.

Doobedobe · 05/11/2025 23:39

FurForksSake · 05/11/2025 23:27

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

Actually yes, not heating them up but had quite a few freshly cooked ones as a dish, usually in fancy pubs.

MrsSkylerWhite · 05/11/2025 23:39

FurForksSake · 05/11/2025 23:07

But pie as in a melton Mowbray pork pie? Not a puff pastry steak and onion or something?

Good god, NO.

SnowflakeSmasher86 · 05/11/2025 23:39

I’d never had one hot before but had a ploughman’s last week in a pub and they heated up the pork pie. It was delicious! I do usually find any shop bought pastry benefits from being heated, even if then left to cool before eating.

Doobedobe · 05/11/2025 23:38

South east, never eaten them warm. Wouldnt the jelly melt?

platinumanddiamonds · 05/11/2025 23:35

FurForksSake · 05/11/2025 23:26

@minipie I feel you might be the academic leading light in this field. We must not heat up the mini pie or pork?

Got to be Melton Mowbray ones not just any old pork pies will do if you get my gist

YourSnugHazelTraybake · 05/11/2025 23:35

Hot pork pie is the food of the gods, but not the crap that you buy in supermarkets in plastic packaging. Direct from the butchers that made them, preferably fresh from the oven. Crisp hot pastry, moist juicy filling and to answer a pp yes the jelly is runny.

canihaveacoffeeplease · 05/11/2025 23:29

Hot pork pie???? Urrrggghhhhhh, the jelly would be all runny, yuck!

Scotch eggs however...now I would never heat up a bought one but do make homemade ones sometimes and they are absolutely delicious hot, especially if the egg has managed to stay runny. Yum.

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FurForksSake · 05/11/2025 23:27

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

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FurForksSake · 05/11/2025 23:26

@minipie I feel you might be the academic leading light in this field. We must not heat up the mini pie or pork?

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platinumanddiamonds · 05/11/2025 23:26

My dad is from Norfolk although been in Scotland for 50 years. He’s the only person I know who heats pork pies with beans.
everyone else likes them cold with chutneys.

minipie · 05/11/2025 23:20

Ugh. No.

PoliteSquid · 05/11/2025 23:19

My parents and their extended family all hail from Melton Mowbray. Heating up a pork pie before serving is unthinkable!!!

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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?

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Greengagesnfennel · 05/11/2025 23:13

Never. A pork pie should always be eaten cold with pickles and chutney. Or maybe a bit of mustard.
West Midlands

DarkNovemberBringsTheFog · 05/11/2025 23:09

Yorkshire person here. Surely pie and peas is beef and onion pies, or similar, which are rarely eaten cold. I’ve never heard of heating up pork pies.

WearyAuldWumman · 05/11/2025 23:08

It depends on my mood at the time.

ETA I'm in Fife.

randomchap · 05/11/2025 23:08

Absolutely not, east midlands, and north east

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FurForksSake · 05/11/2025 23:07

But pie as in a melton Mowbray pork pie? Not a puff pastry steak and onion or something?

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Tickingcrocodile · 05/11/2025 23:07

Never! I live in East of England, grew up in South-East.