The Burning Question*: Should you heat up plates before dinner?

Let TheJournal.ie distract you from the ‘serious’ news with one of life’s REAL dilemmas. (*not really)

Sep 8th 2014, 3:15 PM 28,773 Views 36 Comments

WE KNOW HOW you feel.

It’s Monday, everything hurts and the whole week looms ahead.

So do like we do here inTheJournal.ie HQ and get stuck into a serious debate on one of life’s most pressing issues.

Possibly.

This week: We can imagine that this is good kitchen etiquette, but we’re still not convinced it makes that much of a difference: warm up your dinner plates before plonking the food on them.

Source: hot plate via Shutterstock/Quickmeme

Is that something you do? Warm the plates for dinner?

Poll Results:

Yes, of COURSE (4228)

No, life's too short (3349)

Only for dinner parties and the like (2730)

We don't eat off plates in my gaff (204)

Yes, of COURSE
Only for dinner parties and the like
No, life's too short
We don't eat off plates in my gaff

Got a burning question that has divided your household/work colleagues/friends? Let us know in the comments section or email us at tips@thejournal.ie

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The Burning Question*: Should you heat up plates before dinner?