AIBU to think I am a crap hostess for not warming plates?

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It's just never occurred to me to do so - the only time I ever know I have hot plates is when being served in a pub and something's been microwaved on it. I usually bring the mains and sides to the table for people to self-serve from (not wanting to give people too large/small portions) and it's just not really something I do, or have noticed others doing when having dinner at theirs apart from a v posh cousin who no longer works and has a massive triple oven in her house in Islington and therefore wrote it off as some odd posh phenomenon

I never have a problem with broccoli. Our kitchen is quite warm anyway.

Never in my life heard of this outside of restaurants. Waste of energy.

How is it a waste of energy if you're putting them in an already warm oven?

But people aren't, they are putting them in the microwave, running a plate warmer, WTF.

Silly beyond belief.

I think it's silly beyond belief to put hot food on cold plates.

It makes a massive (positive) difference to have the plates warm to start with, and I always do, but I wouldn't judge your hostessing skills on it

It's the opposite of a waste of energy if you turn the oven off, then put the plates in, thus using heat that would otherwise have been wasted!

I wouldn't say you were a crap hostess. People just do things differently that's all. I do it because my mum did it and it does stop your food from going cold as quick.

I think it was popular in the past as houses were colder when there was no central heating. My kitchen is really warm, so plates are never cold enough to cause food to be chilled by them. Perhaps the plate warmers amongst us have very cold kitchens.

My mum and I always fall out about this. Shes a plate warmer I can't be bothered. Even if they get a Chinese she still warms the plates. Just eat it! There were 6 of us that's a lot of plates to keep warm

My dad was obsessed with warmed plates to eat off. If he went out to get chips from the chippy mum had to put the plates under the grill at full whack as soon as he went out so that they'd be hot enough by his standards. Any hot food and the plates had to be at blast furnace temperatures to suit him.

I hated it and, as soon as I was old enough to express an opinion/do any cooking/reach the plate cupboard I rebelled. I've never warmed a plate in my life and never intend to. Too many vivid memories of crockery being way too hot to approach let alone touch in my childhood.

Is it just me who eats food so quickly that it has never got cold before I have finished?

I only warm plates for roast dinners as our kitchen cupboards are freezing and the food has gone cold before you've plated it all up.

Bouquet, it's not just you! If your hot food goes cold before you've finished it, you're eating too slowly imo.

MIL is a plate warmer so I'm not :)

I don't eat too slowly. I just put my cutlery down between mouthfuls and don't inhale it.

You will probably think me weird but I don't like food really hot. I was always told as a child to let things cool down and I still do it now. People fuss and say my meal needs reheating, my tea must be cold etc just because its not at lava like temperatures. So I don't heat plates as it just slows the cooling process!