....to not heat our dinnerplates?

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MIL does. I don't.

Please discuss.

I warm plates (unless salad is part of the meal). I do plate up meat but at the table usually, and people will put on their own vegetables.

I have only ever had a warmed plate at a restaurant

I just serve food straight away. I'm a clumsy white so I'd just burn myself trying to warm plates. I've enough burns from cooking the food...

I do from October to April, my flat is cold and the food gets chilly very quickly unless the plates are warmed. Only takes a minute in the bottom of the oven.

I've never heard of this!

How do you do it? Put empty plates in the microwave before plating up?

I put them in the top oven usually.

I usually do, and I am under 50. I do prefer it.

In the winter they go in the Aga, in the summer in the microwave (not sure why you need rubber rings or water??).

I plate things up if it is just a usual family meal, yes. But I warm plates regardless.

My mother likes plates to be crazy hot, ditto serving dishes.

DH doesn't.

Have spent a memorable couple of Christmas lunches at my house where my mum has tried to heat the plates and dishes up and dh has been taking them out of the oven to cool them down (particularly when the DC were young) - and repeat, both of them getting more annoyed with the other for being ridiculous in wanting hot/cold plates and moving the plates in or out of the oven when they'd just deliberately put them out or in...

Did not make a good start for Christmas lunch!

I warm plates not for younger DC though. The hob has a plate warmer at the side of it so it's no bother.
I use warmed serving dishes too.

PIL don't warm anything and food is always on the cold side of luke warm.

I have a little electric blanket thingy for heating plates. Only comes out on high days and holidays though!

Don't understand the obsession with food having to be served (and remain) as hot as possible - why?

I warmed plates once, took weeks for the blisters on fingers to heal. don't heat plates anymore

How do you cope with little kids who reach out for things?

We only bother for Christmas. DH finds hot things really hard to touch (poor babe). I often heat up something like a lasagne in a pasta bowl, then transfer it to a room temp. plate. Otherwise you have to hold onto it with a tea towel and it's a right faff.

Yes, I hate cold food and I don't eat particularly quickly.

Serving hot food on cold plates is teh realm of ANIMALS i tell you... tsk! STalks off disgusted

I don't, unless we have a large dinner party and things take a while to be served etc.

Partly because we eat a lot of salad and are both quick eaters.

Both my nanas (well into their 80s) do though.

I don't. I have horrible memories of when I was a child and dad insisting on 'warmed' plates. Warm as in, if he went out to get fish and chips the plates had to be under the hot grill before he left the house so they were 'warm' enough when he got back.

I just make sure food is properly hot when it's served and that's good enough for me.

The only times I've ever eaten off a preheated plate have been in restaurants.

I serve the food immediately after cooking on to a room temperature plate and have to wait for it to cool down a bit as it's still too hot to eat without scalding my tongue.

No.
And if anyone sat at the dinner table and complained that they 'couldn't stand' food off plates at room temperature, they would not be troubled by eating anything I had prepared...

No I think it's something older people do.

I also don't think it's possibly that a hot plate can warm the food sitting on it

One of the things I love about my current house is the warming oven, sit the plates in there whilst the meal is cooking, then fill with bowls if apple crumble etc is in the oven. Yum.

My DH does, I never did before we got together unless for a big occasion, so now I spend a lot of time apologising for forgetting, yet mainly it's because I can't be arsed, and you know what, DH hasn't been poisoned by cold food yet... I think it's environmentally pointless...

Never knew it was a even a thing!!! Having said that we do get hot plates in some restaurants but never thought about it! What a load of faff! LOL anyway both DH and myself are very easily satisfied with food, cold, hot, as long as it's nice it genuinely doesn't bother me one bit (with minor exceptions but certainly nothing to justify plate warming!) :)

I had to teach DH to do this as I hate eating from a cold plate (unless it's salad). It makes the food go cold before you have a chance to eat it.