....to not heat our dinnerplates?

[LaContessaDiPlumpOnSea]

MIL does. I don't.

Please discuss.

I like my food hot, if it's meant to be hot, so I always heat the plates. Each to their own though.

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

Warming the plates not heating them to melting point!

If going to the trouble of a roast dinner, Beef Wellington or something like that yes. For a plate of pasta on Monday night no.

Oh no definitely with pasta, it cools down too quickly on a cold plate.

That's hilarious . I'm in Texas and have never experienced warmed plates except at a steak house.

I find if you put your plate in the microwave while cooking my lean cuisine meal for one the plate warms up as dinner cooks

I think this thread may be an importany social history document for future generations I had no idea that so many people cared!

I am also privately amazed that the Daily Fail haven't pounced on it as a shining example of 'Things MN cares about'....

ImportANT. FML.

I only started because Hubby did when I met him. Now we both do and so do my family.

I haven't read the thread.

I heat the plates for special occasions, soup or fish (as it cools quickly) but not other thing.

However, for day to day meals I like to use plastic plates or bowls as they don't cool the food so much.

People actually do this ?i thought is was something that (some) old people do.By old I mean like pensioner she.Only time I've ever known it was in the 90's I vaguely remember my Nana putting the dinner plates by the fire and thinking wtf are you doing .Obviously I've had heated plates in restaurants but That doesn't count

I do. I like my food hot. I don't find it a faff and my teenage children warm theirs too.

My mum does I don't. Hate my plate hot.

I heat mine on microwave 2 min on full power and they so hot u need tea towel to carry em

Don't bother - too much faff. It's a very continental thing, the idea being your food will stay warm on a hot plate, which it doesn't

Love these sorts of threads.

Makes me realise what an awesome cook I am compared to most.

what brings you to that conclusion MissMargie? It seems like a rather self-congratulatory thing to say.

Cos I cook stuff, often with gravy or sauce. Why would you spend an hour cooking a delicious meal to stick it on a cold plate. Maybe if you stuck some chips in the oven at warp factor 220 and then tipped it onto a plate the cold plate wouldn't matter.
HTH

'Makes me realise what an awesome cook I am compared to most.'

Eh? Because you warm plates? Shite food on a heated plate is still shite food.

I hadn't heard of this until MIL came round for a chinese and insisted we heat plates. I thought it was ludicrous.

Yes, but I was talking about me expat

I cook from scratch all the time (very well, I might add) and eat the results off non-heated plates.

HTH.

I think it less likely that you are a great cook as if you were you would be able to organise your meal so that everything is ready at the same time and therefore won't cool down that fast if the plate is at room temperature.

Erm, okay, MissMargie, I'm sure cooking 'stuff' 'often with gravy or sauce' makes one instantly an awesome cook, although my own experience doesn't prove this theory, but delusions are sweet. HTH.