To not heat my dinner plate?

[Jaggy1]

Just a silly one really..

My MIL has been coming to us once a week for a little while now. Every single time we have dinner whether we serve up or she does, even if we get a takeaway she always asks if I want my plate heated? Either with boiling water or in the oven if it’s being used. I just think it’s strange as I’d never do that on a random Tuesday night dinner or anything but she does it all the time 🤣
Also weird that DH never asks or cares for his plate heated any other time but he’ll always have it when she’s here.

Is this a thing? Am I the strange one 🤣
YABU- you religiously heat your plate
YANBU- never heat your plate

Old fashioned 😂😂

liking hot food, hot is 'old fasioned'😂😂

I do it for guests or if I’m serving a hot meal to more than four people. By the time the last person is served, the first person’s food is cold.

I reckon half the people here who don’t heat their plates would be the first to complain if a restaurant didn’t do it.

I prefer luke warm! Same with "hot" drinks. I will regularly still be waiting for a coffee to cool down enough for me to start while people I'm with have finished theirs.

I don't like anything too cold either. Never add ice to drinks.

ALWAYS heat my plates. I don't like a cold plate for a hot meal.

This is hilarious! Unless you’re next door neighbours?! 🤣

I don’t but DH always does. Makes zero difference either way as far as I can tell.

It seems ti be a generational thing because my parents and aunt/uncles do it but I don't. However, at New Year I did heat the plates because it was a longer meal & food would have cooled quickly otherwise.

I always warm plates. I can't eat hot food off a cold plate.

The laugh reaction was never so badly needed. Old fashioned.

We always warm plates in our house - if it’s old fashioned to prefer my broccoli etc warm than cold, I’ll take that. I’ve been the same ever since I first started cooking for myself, so late teens as a student I suppose.

Old fashioned.

I wonder if there was a publicity campaign in the 70s which said you were scummy if you ate off a cold plate😆

My mum goes on about the same. I really don't care and actually don't want to eat my food at molten lava temperatures anyway.

I always zap my plates in the microwave to take the chill off it. Takes literally 30secs.

I have a thing about cold food being served though.

Good question! I'm 54 and always remember my mum doing it.

I don't bother unless the oven is in when the plates warm nicely sitting above in the top oven. It is nice as keeps food hotter for longer but a faff I can do without generally. I expect the 'older generations' do a few more things which younger people no longer bother with.

My ex MIL used to insist on heating up chips from the chip shop. They'd be put in the oven and would turn soggy. I wouldn't put mine in, when they were plenty hot enough.

Wtf , how is serving hot or cold gravy ( or anything else) racist!

It's got to get shoehorned in, somehow.

I heat them for a roast dinner and ‘special’ meals but everyday - nah, I’m usually shovelling food in so quickly it doesn’t have time to get cold! I also have side salad with hot stuff and that’s weird off a hot plate.

This tickled me - my DM is obsessed with heating the plates (which I assume she got from her mother my late DGM, equally obsessed, had a heated hostess trolly which used to get wheeled from the kitchen to the dining room for every single meal, lest the food cooled for even a nanosecond before being eaten). I think people fall into two camps, it’s either vitally important to you, or you couldn’t be more unbothered (I’m in the latter camp). Recently moved house and now have more ovens - finally, finally I’ll be able to meet my DM’s plate heating requirements (it’s v difficult if you only have one oven to cook a roast dinner, Yorkshire puddings, roast potatoes AND heat not only the plates but also the serving plates, which my DM requires).

I always bung the plates in the warming drawer if we’re having something hot. Can’t stand hot food that isn’t quite hot enough 🤢 Neither elderly nor a slow eater.

Not all us 'old people' can be bothered (I only do it at Christmas, because with so many items to serve oneself everything tends to end up rapidly cooling by the time anyone gets to a table with a full plate) but my DD and SIL (30s) are meticulous about hot plates, because they don't like food cooling down too fast. Nothing 'generational ' there. Just personal taste.

But typically for MN this topic has turned a simple question into an 'aren't old people ridiculous!' thing.

I thought it was a funny reply. Reading comprehension fail.

The previous post said 'nothing worse than cold gravy'

I would have gone with 'paper cuts'

What are you talking about? How slowly are you serving? How can the food possibly be cold? Is this a Christmas dinner you're eating outside in the snow?

Here's what I don't understand. A course might take 10-15 minutes to eat. During that time it will no longer be the piping hot temperature some of you seem to crave. How do you all cope after the first minute or two?

No-one eats a whole meal piping hot unless they are eating out of a pan still cooking on the hob. Food cools down aas you eat it.

Deep.

My husband would love if I did heat his plate. I hate heated plates as I don’t like my food burning hot and I’m always getting burnt by things as im
clumsy. DPIL and DP to a lesser extent don’t like their food unless it’s hotter than magma. I genuinely cannot eat for 5 minutes when we eat at their house as it’s so scalding hot. I prefer mine lukewarm