— Ushirika Johnson

This is a great question. So in the food service industry people do this all the time now on the secret to this is is to warm your plate. So if you're doing something you might want to, you know, put your oven on just this lowest setting and keep your plates in it before you actually plating as well. And you'll see at my high end, you know restaurants and stuff like that or you can even find them at some buffets too where the plates that are all stacked in there. They're warm as soon as you get them. The reason they do that is to be able to keep the food warm that goes on to them. Because if you're taking a plate out that's at 72 75 degrees room temperature, depending on where you are where the air conditioning is or if there is air conditioning. The food that's coming out of the pan is quite hot. But if you put it onto a plate that's at that temperature. It's going to start cooling it directly and immediately because all the surface area on the plate is touching the food. So the secret to that is to warm your plates at a time. I've seen people have like towels that they microwave that they wrap plates on as well too. But the most common is probably putting them in your oven at a low setting to be able to keep them more be careful and take them out of the oven though because they will naturally be hot and I'm not talking about heating them up until like 350 degrees or anything like that. I'm just saying to keep them so they're warm you can still hold them with your hand, but they're still going to keep your food warm. So I hope that helps.