Serving Tips for Thanksgiving Dinner

Serving Tips for Thanksgiving Dinner - as part of the expert series by GeoBeats. You have worked so hard for Thanksgiving. You have made this big meal and now it is time to serve, and you are worried things are going to get cold. There is nothing worse than that feeling. So, here is a few ways to make sure that your food is out hot, colorful and delicious. Number one: Ask help of your friends or family. You have done all the work, they can come in the kitchen and help you serve. Number two: Invest in some chafing dishes. You can put these out on the table ahead of time, get a Sterno underneath, sit out your stuffing, your side dishes in the chafing dishes, so you do not have to worry for the turkey to be finished while your other things are getting cold. Number three: And here is a really good tip, if you are plating dinners, put those plates in the oven at about 250 degrees to get them hot. If you put food on the plate and the plate is a little bit hot and a little warm, it is going to stay hot a lot longer. If you use cold plates, it is going to suck all the heat out of your food and really make things cold. Another tip for serving Thanksgiving dinner might be instead of having family-style, where everyone passes around dishes at the table, which can get noisy and overcrowded, set up a smaller table away from the table where everyone is going to be eating and get a buffet line going. Put some plates, napkins and silverware at the very front of it. Put your dishes out along the line of the table and just have your family and friends go through and have their seats. You will have a lot less crowding and it will be a lot easier to enjoy each others company while eating dinner.