"Pete C." > wrote in message
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> " wrote:
>>
>> When Matt and I married, we received a wonderful set of thick dishes
>> that are just lovely, and we use that as our regular dinnerware.
>> (Wedding china, puh-lease! Not in my lifetime!) Now that I've been
>> plating food onto this set for 2 years, I'm starting to think that
>> putting hot food on the cold plate is diminishing the taste of the food
>> (I hate hate hate lukewarm dinners).
>>
>> My mom has a gas oven and leaves a set of plates in there all the time
>> to be heated by the pilot light. She doesn't bake - I mean, she
>> literally hasn't turned on the oven in at least 15 years - so it's safe
>> for her to do that. I have an electric oven, plus I *do* bake (just
>> posted pics of hamantaschen on twosheep.com/blog), so I'm wondering
>> what my other options might be.
>>
>> Do you warm plates before serving food? Do you think it's worth it? Do
>> you use the oven or some other technique?
>>
>> June
>
> I warm plates if I doing something formal-ish for a number of people
> where the time to plate everything might allow things to cool too much.
> For dinner for 1 or 2 I don't generally bother since the plating time is
> minimal. As for heating the plates, I just put them in the oven. Most
> plates are oven safe these days so they just go in at the lowest setting
> if I'm not using the oven otherwise, or if I'm using the oven they just
> go in for a short while to heat.
>
I always warm plates in the micro wave.