Best Way to Warm Plates

PiKe said:
If I'm not using the oven I usually put them in there on 100c.
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Not very energy efficient, surely? Having said that we tend to boil the kettle and put hot water in them for 5mins. I wonder how that compares to leaving the oven on for 20mins? Although to be fair we're usually booking the kettle for other stuff.. veggies etc.

I can't stand food on cold plates!
 
If using the oven, put them in the grill above which gets warm enough. Of if the hob has been used, use the residual heat off the glass that's still hot.

I'm not too fussed about a hot plate though.
 
andy_mk3 said:
I'm not too fussed about a hot plate though.
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Why not? I remember going round to a friend's house who was a pretty good cook. Loved hosting people. He'd gone to a massive effort of roasting a couple of joints, dauphinoise potatoes, loads of sides all dished up in the middle of the table for 6 of us. We all sat down and my girlfriend and I noticed straight away that the plates were ice cold. By the time you'd dished up all your food from the selection, it was cold! :( It was such a shame.

Don't underestimate how quickly a cold plate can cool your food down.
 
I also use hot water.

Bunch of plates, kettle, water. Just need to remember that there's a pool of water on the plates when I go to collect them.

If the oven was on then probably throw them in there and try to remember to get them out before they're too hot.
 
I put them in the oven at approx 50 degrees. If the oven is not available I use boiling water. What I do is pour the boiling water into a shallow saucepan then put the plates on top of that. The whole lot sits inside my microwave, which is NOT turned on, while I cook. If there's more than one plate, I'll rotate them.
 
I'm one of those odd people who don't like hot plates, we don't have slave kitchens a few hundred yards away these days. Food is 99.9% of the time to hot even with a cold plate.
 
Normally microwave for me, or oven if it's already on. Oven temperature doesn't really matter within reason; you just leave them in an appropriate amount of time.

Water method is annoying as you have to dry them before serving.

Thought about a plate warming drawer when we spec'd our new kitchen, but decided normal drawer space was more valuable.

MrMarvelous said:
Pop them on a radiator before you eat, that's what I do and it works a treat.
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How does that work? Surely radiators aren't proud enough from walls to balance plates on? Not to mention the fact that on average radiators will be on and hot enough to warm plates about 1 time in 10 that you need it! Or do you fire up your central heating just to warm plates? :p

Glaucus said:
I'm one of those odd people who don't like hot plates, we don't have slave kitchens a few hundred yards away these days. Food is 99.9% of the time to hot even with a cold plate.
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I guess if you live / eat on your own all the time then you don't have the logistical problem of serving for multiple people, with the food temperature challenges it creates.

No idea what you mean by 'Food is 99.9% of the time to hot'; assuming the flavour isn't impaired and it's designed to be hot food, I don't see how it can ever be 'to hot'. You cut some up and blow on it when it's on your fork...not too hot in about 5 seconds.
 
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No idea what you mean by 'Food is 99.9% of the time to hot'; assuming the flavour isn't impaired and it's designed to be hot food, I don't see how it can ever be 'to hot'. You cut some up and blow on it when it's on your fork...not too hot in about 5 seconds.
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Clearly to hot then if you have to spend 5 seconds per mouthful blowing on it. How can you not get that.
And what logistic issues at dinner parties serving many people.
 
Glaucus said:
Clearly to hot then if you have to spend 5 seconds per mouthful blowing on it. How can you not get that.
And what logistic issues at dinner parties serving many people.
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Only for the first few mouthfuls until the food's no longer piping hot. Better than too cold.

Dinner parties...many people...riiiight....

Don't you mean soup kitchen?
 
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