....to not heat our dinnerplates?

[LaContessaDiPlumpOnSea]

MIL does. I don't.

Please discuss.

Sometimes. I put all four plates stacked in the microwave for about 50 seconds to warm them up.

Hot food = warm or hot plate.
Cold food = cold plate.

Also t really irritates me if I am served hot food on a cold plate. It spoils the food.

Warm plates for fully bot meals, ie, casseroles and hot veg. Chilli, pasta, served with a salad no. We have salad with a lot of meals!

My mother, now 81, is obsessed with piping hot food served on red hot plates. It spoils the flavour and enjoyment imo. How can you properly taste food that's too hot to savour? Am cordon bleu trained btw. Hot yes, burning no.

Another one for warming the plates here. I use the rubber disks from Lakeland which have the advantage of heating the middle of the plate but leaving the rim cold so you can pick them up.

Depends what the food is. Last couple of Sundays I have made casseroles which are piping hot- having a non-heated plate cools it down to edible temperature. Particularly for the kids. On the other hand I tend to slightly warm the plates for a roast dinner. But the thing is, people then sometimes have to pass their plates over to be served potatoes etc, the serving dishes being very hot, so they can't be too hot to pick up.

Warm the plates. Not too hot to hold.

Warming drawers - FTW medium heated plates and no bread allowed to rise in those bad boys.

After Mn I dont think I can have guests ever again LOL! People getting offended if asked/suggested to take shoes off inside the house, people getting offended by being given cold plates! All this potential to take offence I had never even considered! :D lol
I will definitely not be regularly warming up plates anytime soon as I like my food any temperature and so do my kids, it's easier generally (makes taking food on 'expeditions' or eating in the office/school easier) but could suggest it to DH for cooked breakfast for Saturdays as this is the only meal I don't like getting cold much....
Also a few of our meals are leftovers so plate in microwave anyway...

We have one of these
All very Abigail's party and Hyacinth Bucket, we inherited it from my DM and it lives in the utility room. It is wonderfully useful when we have a lot of people for a meal as It warms up lots of plates but we don't bother when it's just the two of us. It came with a set of fancy 'silver' stands with little legs so you can put the four pyrex dishes from the top safely onto the table. We are very fond of it.

In the olden days, when you didn't have to keep bending and squinting to see what your grill was doing, you got racks on either side of the grill on which your dinner plates warmed up. So much easier.

My mum does it so I do it too. A minute in the microwave is all it takes. I've never given it any thought!

If someone served hot foot on a cold plate in a restaurant you'd send it back, so why wouldn't you want a hot plate in your house?

As we all live in centrally heated homes, it is unnecessary these days.

Just a silly ritual.

Always pop the plates in the oven for the last few minutes before dishing up. There's a debate around ours about if it's appropriate when having cold accompaniments like salad or a tomatoe. I say no I don't like my salad on a warm plate, my DH says yes he wants his hot food kept hot sod the salad, DC just enjoy the debate which is often heated!!

craigie I hate really hot plates in restaurants.

No! Life is far too short.
My parents are obsessed with it (& critical at ours) which used to wind me right up.
Fortunately they are self obsessed narcissists that I no longer see (different thread I know!) so every cloud ...

"If someone served hot foot on a cold plate in a restaurant you'd send it back, so why wouldn't you want a hot plate in your house?" I definitely wouldn't. I don't particularly care one way or the other :)

I like a warm plate but can never get the as hot as you get in restaurants.

......get them as hot as you get in.....

Why won't mumsnet put an Edit function on the messages like every other forum I belong to?

I don't, exh does/did! Nuff said!

I have never noticed the temperature of my plates in a restaurant. Unless they give you grave warnings that the plate is very hot, which I hate - I don't want to sit there, hovering my utensils carefully over plates not to burn myself.

I had a new kitchen this year and my warming drawer was fitted a couple of weeks ago. I'd always wanted one and this kitchen as we are staying put I had what I wanted. I luffs it even more than my dh I do occasionally forget to use it though 😳

Never. I hate having to sit there for ages while my food cools enough to eat.

My family never did so wasn't use to doing it but my mil did and hubby prefers it. So I now do it

Never do as by the time I sit down after feeding children mines cold anyway 🙈