Warm plates

I've got a warming cupboard that I've had for years and it's a real boon for keeping food warm [especially at Christmas] and plates for daily meals.

Hot food = hot plate, unless there's salad with it. I don't heat the plates for the dgc.

Especially I ensure a hot bowl for pasta as it cools so quickly.

Oven heated or in the microwave with a sprinkling of water.

I stick them on top of the oven to warm. If it's on. If I remember. Otherwise, no. And tbh I can't see that it makes a difference. I've never yet eaten a hot meal so slowly that it's cold before I finish.

I use an electric plate warmer i got from Lakeland. Very effective. I can't stand cold plates.

Thanks guys for the replies....I wondered about empty plates in microwave too shysal lol....

Always warm plates except for cold meals. In oven, balanced on saucepan or in microwave with a bit of water. My microwave instructions said to always have some liquid.

No water, shysal. Just 'cook' the plates for about a minute. I've been doing it for years and never had a problem yet.

Our everyday plates sit in a rack to the right of the oven and hob. They never feel cool to the touch but I would warm them they needed it.

I also use the top oven when the bottom oven is in use.

I am surprised to see that so many of you use the microwave to warm plates. I would have thought is was not recommended for empty plates. Do you add a cup of water or something?

When hot food transfers some of its heat to a plate, the food cools before I want it to, so I always warm dinner plates.

Perhaps if one eats fast it doesn't matter about the food cooling.

Always.

I hate hot food on cold plates. I pop the plates in the top oven when I turn it on for something like a casserole or a roast then I don't need to put more heat on. Otherwise its the top oven on low for about half an hour. If I forget DH advocates putting them in the microwave or in a bowl of hot water.

DH warms them but I can't be bothered see the point; lemongrove is right about hot food warming them anyway. We like to watch what happens in a restaurant when the waiter warns diners that the plates are hot. Practically always the reaction is to touch the plate to see, and it always is!

If you use china plates, rather than pottery ones, you will find that the hot food warms the plate quickly anyway.

I don't - though I can remember Mum doing it. I don't think any of our children warm the plates.
Husband doesn't like hot food (for some reason.)

No, although a long long time ago we had an oven with a plate warmer sited underneath it which was useful.Now all cookers are mainly integrated with kitchens so don't have that facility.
I can't say that anyone has noticed that plates aren't warmed, as long as the food is piping hot.

Always - thought everyone did!

Always warm plates for hot food.

For some reason I warm them in winter but not in summer.

Not always, but usually do it in the microwave when required.

I always warm plates, I put them in the microwave if the main oven isn't on.

I always warm our plates, as I hate hot food on cold plates.

I like my plate warmed , but OH likes a cold plate to cool his food

I always warm my plates, never really think about it, just something I do, I also warm dishes for soup or if having a hot dessert, not something that happens often

Always, in the top oven when the main oven is on, or in a bowl of very hot water if not.
Surely the food goes cold very quickly if put onto cold plates.