old people and "warm the plates"

[vx220]

WTF?

[Stuart70]

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[drivin_me_nuts]

Some of us eat slowly and consume food that requires mastication i.e. not slop from bargain buckets or happy menus. We like warm food - it adds to the social pleasure of mealtime. Warm plates help facilitate that. Perhaps the older generation has that bit of family dynamics nailed.

[petery]

Warm plates are a must with hot food, nothing worse than the gravy going cold before finishing the meal

[Mobile Chicane]

I can't stand cold plates, especially in a restaurant. It's just sloppy.

[CubanPete]

drivin_me_nuts said:

Some of us eat slowly and consume food that requires mastication i.e. not slop from bargain buckets or happy menus. We like warm food - it adds to the social pleasure of mealtime. Warm plates help facilitate that. Perhaps the older generation has that bit of family dynamics nailed.

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petery said:

Warm plates are a must with hot food, nothing worse than the gravy going cold before finishing the meal

and this.

[Debaser]

vx220 said:

WTF?

Warm plates make perfect sense.

[Gandahar]

Plates should be very hot, not merely warm !

[amancalledrob]

Another vote for warm plates, and I'm only 36. If I'm serving pasta (ie I haven't used the oven) I'll even use water from the kettle. No point getting your food nice and hot if you're just going to dump all the heat into your china.

[Stuart70]

drivin_me_nuts said:

Some of us eat slowly and consume food that requires mastication i.e. not slop from bargain buckets or happy menus. We like warm food - it adds to the social pleasure of mealtime. Warm plates help facilitate that. Perhaps the older generation has that bit of family dynamics nailed.

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[Matt UK]

For the reasons others have given, for a proper meal warm plates are a must!

[paolow]

As above - warm plates are a must - I'm not spending 2 hours cooking to serve food that is cold 3 mins later.
I sometimes go lazier than the hot water method though and just microwave the plates - though I appreciate it's not great for either the plates or the microwave....

[MajorProblem]

vx220 said:

WTF?

Warm The fkers?

[Patrick Bateman]

Warm plates make sense, however, my mum's husband takes them to the point where they literally melt the placemats.

Warm is fine but I don't want to wait another 10 minutes for the food to reach a temperature that won't burn me.

[goldblum]

While we're on the subject... I've tried explaining at various restaurants that these things won't keep the food warm and are actually (pathetically ineffective) plate warmers. I had to stop after the wife said a while back "Not this again I'm sick of you going on and on every damn time we're out - if you don't shut up I'm going home"... but now I'm single I can complain all I like.

Is every Indian restaurant in the North West suffering from the same delusion? Is it a culture thing/reverse culture thing?

My Nemesis:

[TheExcession]

goldblum said:

While we're on the subject... I've tried explaining at various restaurants that these things won't keep the food warm and are actually (pathetically ineffective) plate warmers. I had to stop after the wife said a while back "Not this again I'm sick of you going on and on every damn time we're out - if you don't shut up I'm going home"... but now I'm single I can complain all I like.

Is every Indian restaurant in the North West suffering from the same delusion? Is it a culture thing/reverse culture thing?

My Nemesis:

Are you certain? We had a power cut the other night and myself and Little Ex heated food in a pan using two candles with the pan resting on a couple of upside down coffee jars.

Tin of soup, tin of baked beans and a tin of corned beef all mashed up came out piping hot!

There's a heck of a lot of heat that comes out from even a tealight candle.

[Pints]

So what's the preferred PH method of plate warming?

[goldblum]

TheExcession said:

goldblum said:

While we're on the subject... I've tried explaining at various restaurants that these things won't keep the food warm and are actually (pathetically ineffective) plate warmers. I had to stop after the wife said a while back "Not this again I'm sick of you going on and on every damn time we're out - if you don't shut up I'm going home"... but now I'm single I can complain all I like.

Is every Indian restaurant in the North West suffering from the same delusion? Is it a culture thing/reverse culture thing?

My Nemesis:

Are you certain? We had a power cut the other night and myself and Little Ex heated food in a pan using two candles with the pan resting on a couple of upside down coffee jars.

Tin of soup, tin of baked beans and a tin of corned beef all mashed up came out piping hot!

There's a heck of a lot of heat that comes out from even a tealight candle.

Two candles? Aha!!

These aluminium trays are marketed as plate warmers, not bowls-full-of-curry-warmers. Why do restaurants persist with the myth they keep the food warm? I have taken the food off the tray and laid the palm of my hand on the tray for a short time and it only got singed a little! The whole concept of the bloody things irritates me beyond measure. Just checked and this website lists them as both! The madness continues...

http://www.theasiancookshop.co.uk/food-warmer-delu...

[Dr G]

Tell the butler to do it.

[NNH]

Pints said:

So what's the preferred PH method of plate warming?

With a V8, presumably...