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Keeping Food Hot for Slow Eaters: Many of us eat very slowly and hot food becomes cold and unappetizing before we have finished eating. Here are some clever ideas from our members for keeping food hot.

1. If it takes you so long to eat that your food gets cold, try the Heat Magic Microwaveable Plate. It works great.

2. Look in baby sections of stores. There used to be dishes available that you put hot water in the bottom section and the food sat in the plate section on top.

3. Some restaurants serve hot metal platters on wooden insulators (to keep from burning the table)

4. Pottery bowls and plates and cups tend to be thicker than store bought ones and thus they have more mass. the more mass something has, in general, the more heat it holds and the longer it holds the heat. Remember that pottery can get VERY hot -- so use pot holders.

5. You can have one plate fit inside another one -- so it fits like a lid. Fill the bottom plate with the kind of fish tank gravel you find at an aquarium store, heat it up, then set your heated plate on top of that other plate and the gravel in it will act as a radiant mass and keep the plate above it warm longer. Gravel won't spill as easily water.

6. Heating any plate first under hot water - or a nanosecond in the oven if you have baked the meal - or even putting a wet plate in the micro for a quickie - at least keeps things hot until they arrive at the table, and warm for a bit thereafter.

7. Caution. I can understand how undesirable it is to eat luke warm food unless you have had the experience I had. I was once proudly served some real nice hot food. My wife was about to burst a button at her achievement until I took a bite and quickly spit it out all over the plate. It was then I realized I had no feelings in my mouth or on the left side of my face. I burnt my tongue quite badly and from that day on, I have opted for the luke warm food. For me, it is the safest way to eat.

8. Another obvious solution is to keep food in larger containers, perhaps on hot-plates or even on the stove, and take smaller portions. Finish the small portion, and then take a second portion.

9. A microwaveable heating pad to sit your plate on could serve this purpose.

 

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