Poll : Plate Warmer Feature on Dishwashers.

[turquoisedude]

My late mother's British roots forbade serving meals on cold plates, yet despite plate-warmer cycles on the old Viking and the GE Potscrubber that replaced it, we never used the plate warm cycle. Usually it was because there was already dirty stuff in the dishwasher and the ol' Frigidaire oven was still warm from baking and roasting anyway.
Personally, I follow the same rule and use the oven for warming dishes, but I DO have 2 dishwashers in the kitchen in Ogden so I should try this sometime... Next dinner party in a couple of weeks, perhaps!

 

[sudsmaster]

If the oven is already warm, then using residual heat to warm up plates seems sensible.

 

But firing up the oven or even a dishwasher just to warm plates seems like a waste of time and energy to me.

 

 

 

 

[jerrod6]

<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">My Miele has this cycle but I have never used it mainly because I suspect it is really some other cycle that is used in other countries and Miele has just renamed it to something that might be meaningful in the USA.  You know, something like glasses warm or, something.  When I select this cycle the display says it will take 49 minutes - never used it -  so perhaps it takes that long with super cold water but I can heat a plate faster in the oven.</span>

 

<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">From my experience in winter I see why warm plates might be nice.  My house is about 64F, 65F inside during the winter and the kitchen cabinets are on a outside wall so the contents in them is even colder. Everything in the kitchen is cold.  As soon as you put hot food on a cold plate the heat of the food is transfered to the plate.  In no time you have cold food.  Some time I put the food on the plate then put it in the microwave for 1 minute which seems to help heat the plate and prevent the food from quickly cooling off before I eat it.</span>

 

<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Maybe I'll try this plate warm thing and see what happens.</span>

 

[tomturbomatic]

Mom used to invert plates over surface units that had been switched off after she removed the pans or slip them in the oven if it had been used or place them on the surface unit over the oven vent.

 

[chachp]

Never used it.....

I have never used the Plate Warming cycle on any dishwasher I've had. But I have to say I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the idea of putting them in the roaster. I do a lot of buffets at my house and what I've always done is stacked them on an electric warming tray with a towel over the top to keep them warm but the roaster is a great idea especially since I seldom use it for anything else!! LOL.

 

[franksdad]

Never used it either

I had this feature on my 1974 Whirlpool built in but never used it. Salad and cold dessert plates/bowls are kept in the freezer. Forgive me Emily Post but Mama never heated her plates and neither did I but I will next time we have company.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Maybe heated plates were not as much of a priority in warm areas of the country because, except for a brief time in the cooler months, they are fairly warm from the cupboard.

 

[gmmcnair]

Never Have Used It

I usually have the oven going anyway, so I just stick the plates on the back burner over the oven vent. The oven is usually full to capacity (big fan of all oven meals here), and it warms up the plates nicely.

 

[toggleswitch]

I had never thought about heating plates as I tend to like my food on the cool side. Sometimes cold, right out of the fridge. Remnants from pre- microwave oven days! Never knew anyone who used the plate-warm feature!

LOL My plates are oridinary Corelle by Corning. Do they even have enough mass to warrant being heated?

I insist upon service for 16 (even when my dining room was of the size to seat only 4 persons). I can't stand pulling dirty items out of the DW, one at a time, and washing them should one run out of plates or bowls of a cetain type/size/configuration!

 

[foraloysius]

My dishwasher doesn't have a plate warmer feature, although I could trick it to do one. Never would bother, as soon as the dishwasher is empty there are already new dirty dishes standing around to go in.

My mother places her plates on a radiator of her hot water central heating. Works fine for her. I've done the microwave trick with water on the plates, heating them up with the water from pasta I boiled, putting them on a small hot plate etc. Nowadys I don't bother much about it anymore.

BTW, anyone who has this plate warmer?

 

[1972lkdishwash]

so many plate warm solutions....

Always 2 dishwashers or more, of course, LOL, and yes, it was invented for and to utilize the machine, for other functions, We Americans just love Multi Purpose TOOLS....We always suggest, "a plate warming drawer" for custom new Kitchens...I simply use the top loader to warm all my main serving dishes (ge Mobile maid, Dial to dry cycle) and have the KA just running wild with catch up, from the prep & cooking mess...The back splash of our 1939 Magic Chef built in Gas Range cook top, (Stainless steel) has vents from the oven and broiler units, this also works great for warming the Plates....and on many sub zero mornings, I light the OVEN, for baking takes the complete chill off that end of the kitchen. Everyone loves fresh warm brownies for coffee clutch....on weekends, AM too...