To plate it in the kitchen rather than let people serve themselves?

[IggyPoppers]

If you're having a family meal do you plate it straight from the whatever it was cooked in onto plates and then carry those plates through or do you decant the food into a serving bowl and carry that through? AIBU to not want even more dishes and to just plate it from the hob?

Plate it up, but there's only two of us and we don't eat at the table, or in the same room come to think of it

Heh. I thought that was just us. Not always at the same time either.

I hate food being plated, I've never done it and use serving dishes most days.

As an adult I want to decide what I want to eat and I let me DC do the same, they aren't small children and are perfectly capable of making their own choices.

If it's just us, I plate up. If it's guests I put the food out in dishes and let them help themselves. I do this because I have no idea how much people want to eat.

If it’s close family, such as my mum and the in laws, then I plate up because they don’t mind and I can’t stand the extra washing up. At the in laws mil always puts everything in dishes on the table. If we have friends over then I tend to put it on the table for them to decide what they want.

Yes dished up! I knew there was something wrong with the term 'plate up' it's like MasterChef, but couldn't remember the phrase we use...

I fucking hate the word 'plate' used as a verb.

Realise that's not helpful but this thread is killing me

Yes, to how much to cook.
We get half each, unless she tells me she wants less, and if she wants an element left out she'd tell me that too.
With the roast, what if she fancied all of the cauliflower, all of the meat and nothing else?

Do you not end up making more food this way and have stuff go to waste? I just make what people will eat and plate it up unless it’s Christmas dinner or something.

Sometimes one way and sometimes the other, but if I'm putting the food on the table for people to serve themselves I'm afraid unless I'm feeling very posh I just carry it through in the pans I used to cook it in and put them on a trivet or board on the dining table.

Estrella it's hideous, isn't it?! Like everyone thinks they're on fucking Masterchef when it's just sausage, beans and mash.

Usually on the table if I can - if it’s just me, DH and DS that can be a pan on the table on a mat I don’t normally bother with serving dishes. Before we had DS we’d got really lazy and usually served our own in the kitchen then ate on the sofa.

I plate it up, food goes cold in bowls, can't stand cold food

Depends on the meal. Mostly it's plated up in the kitchen but for salad it's help yourself from a lidded bowl which can always be returned to the fridge if necessary.

I don't have room in my kitchen to plate up, I have a tiny galley kitchen.

When eating elsewhere I prefer to help myself and have it on the table, unless there is a reason not too, for example a roast dinner, and only one yorkshire each, it's natural to therefor put one on each plate.

Well given that I cook only what is needed, with usually only a little extra then I plate up in the kitchen. I cannot afford to waste food, nor do I want to. Also, I just dont see the need for everyone helping themselves and creating more mess and therefore using more resources to clean up when it can more easily be done in the kitchen.

That said, if I have guests who are not family then of course I put it out for them to help themselves.

Serving dishes/cooking pots on the table her. Hate the “plating up” thing.

Re "Plated" or "to plate" I remember Germaine Greer on (I think) it was Room 101 ranting about how her microwave has a setting for a Plated Meal. She was going on about what was a plated meal? She has never eaten a plated meal in her life. So what the hell does she eat off then?! The floor? Or are her cupboards full of arty farty slates and planks of wood? :o

I plate it up, food goes cold in bowls, can't stand cold food

I find the opposite - my MIL dishes out roasts and by the time she’s done 8 plates and brought them all through it’s all pretty cold. I’m greedy and it’s still yum but I’d much prefer helping myself to a nice hot potato from a warmed dish!

I don't plate up, and I hate people playing up for me. But unless we gave formal company, or it's an occasion, I don't use serving plates either - it all gets plonked on the table in whatever it was cooked in.

I dish it out in the kitchen, and we eat it off of our knees in front of the telly.

We only get the folding table and chairs out for Christmas and guests.

If I have guests which means eating in the dining room then I put food in serving dishes and let them help themselves. When just the two of us we actually plate up in the kitchen but each will do their own plate. I have some lovely serving dishes so it is nice to get to use them once in a while. Years ago when a teen I worked in a guest house and when plating the dinners which were then kept warm distinctions were made between a woman's plate and a mans plate. Not very PC and I used to think to myself that I could eat just as much as any man and this was just not right

Plate up
Unless it's Xmas

Plate up. Less washing up!!!

When it's just us, we dish up in the kitchen.

When it's just a couple of friends for supper, we help ourselves from the pans on the hob/worktop.

More than that and the serving dishes come out, and the electric hotplate(s) to keep everthing warm. And both gravy boats!

I'm another one who hates anyone (DP excepted) dishing up my dinner for me. They never give me enough of the bits I love (roast potatoes!) and too much of the bits I'm not keen on (MIL's boiled-until-they're-khaki-mush sprouts).

Well as there can be up to 15 people at a family get together in my husbands family, we do serve yourself.

I usually do 2 slow cooker dishes, a big joint of meat. Rice, potato salad, bread and a big salad for side dishes. I leave it all in the kitchen for people to help themselves.