Do you heat up pork pies?

[FurForksSake]

I’ve never heated one in my life, but I’m discovering some people bake the ones you buy in the supermarket and then serve them warm / hot, maybe with peas?

if you would be so kind as to let me know where you’re from, I want to know if it’s a geographic thing!!

Good grief, no! I make my own pork pies at Christmas and Easter, and apart from anything else, if you were to heat them up, the jelly would run out. I have no idea what happens to the solid stuff round a bought pork pie when you heat it, but a properly made pork pie will have pork stock jelly that when heated becomes liquid.

Eh? Why would it be unsafe to reheat a pie made with cured meat? This place sometimes.

Ok, keep your hair on! 🙄 I’m always nervous about pork. I’m always nervous about not reheating stuff hot enough after an extremely nasty hospitalisation for my exH after eating reheated food that wasn’t hot enough, so reheating a pork pie for a short while in the microwave wouldn’t appeal to me on any level. I hope that lessens your ire a little!

I haven't thought about this for years. My mum used to do this sometimes and I used to plead with her not to!! She was also known to heat scotch eggs which weren't actually as bad as the heated pork pies, although I prefer them cold.

I don't but my parents and grandparents would. Yorkshire born.

I used to live quite near a pie factory, hot freshly baked pork pies are a fabulous thing.

Noooooo! The lovely jelly will melt, soak into the crisp pastry, making it soggy. The whole thing will collapse. (Ask me how I know…..)

This is definitely a thing in West Yorkshire! It's got to be a pork pie from the butchers and warmed in the oven, so the pastry stays crisp. Also, soaked mushy peas and not out of a tin. The butcher I go to also sells pies unbaked with the jelly, so you can have them freshly baked at home 😋

What???? No! A pork.pie is eaten cold.

I’ve never even considered this and the thought of it baffles me, but each to their own haha

SE. Never!

The meat in a pork pie is very dense. I would question whether it's even possible to heat one up without risking food poisoning.

Plus it's just wrong.

I'm from London fwiw.

Don't worry your offerings are safe, we will stick to our stand pies thank you very much.

For those wondering about the jelly, it turns into a delicious gravy type entity and does soak into the pastry, a bit, but a proper hot water crust it doesn't soak it up as much as short crust would.

So are the pies you get from the butcher / baker / candlestick maker what would be recognised as a pork pie in the rest of England? Hot water crust, firm puck of pork, jelly?

That’s a different kind of pie

I'm near Melton Mowbray and all I can say is hell no!

Is nothing sacred any more? Hot pork pies and scotch eggs? Absolute insanity. Will nobody think about the jelly?!

They used to do this at the convent I went to when I was about nine (70’s) Worst school dinner I ever had to endure - served with peas, mash and gravy 🤮🤮

Yes, Def a thing in North Yorkshire. Skipton based

Yep.Eat them warm from fresh from the butcher, eat them cold or eat them hot with mushy peas but not heated in a microwave. They aren't Melton Mowbray pies, which have to be made in a distinct manner and only in Melton Mowbray

M husband and I are Londoners and the same age. I heat them, he doesn’t

Before today I thought that Mrs Grumpy was the only person in the world mad enough to heat up pork pies.

Melted jelly 🤮

Reply @Somersetbaker but the same as the pork pies you can pie in a six lack in the cold section of Tesco?

Yes, there's subtle differences, eg the pork in the picture is pink when in a Melton Mowbray it's grey, something to do with curing I think, and heathens like me will probably use them interchangeably and have any 'pork pie' hot with mushy peas or unheated as part of a picnic or buffet.

But yes, you could have the ones from the supermarket heated with peas (if you have an air fryer, that's probably good for heating, but like most things, the ones from the butcher will be nicer, but likely more expensive.

But still baffled and slightly amused as to how so many people seem to find hot pork pie and peas so objectionable.

Dim ffiars! (N Wales)

Much the same but made by the butcher, with decent quality ingredients, rather than mechanically recovered slurry or whatever the supermarkets use, no artificial colour or preservative, the only flavour "enhancers" will be salt, pepper and may be some herbs and they don't keep for weeks, best eaten the day they're made.