Keeping food hot

[abunaitoo]

I need to keep some food hot for about 5 hours.
I've read everything from wraping in foil to putting a hot brick in the cooler.
Anyone out there have something that they do to keep food hot?????

[cyleet99]

Re: Keeping food hot

I know!! You're sending hot malassadas to the Mainland, aren't you?



Seriously, need more info. Is it being shipped, or going to a picnic, or what?

[abunaitoo]

Re: Keeping food hot

Going to a inside party.
No time, or place, to cook.
I want to take some teri burgers with cheese.
I want to put the burgers together after cooking if possible.
I'm hoping the buns don't get soggy.
They would need to be kept hot for about 5 hours.
Only making 6 burgers.
I have plastic cooler, soft cooler, can get a styrafoam cooler.

Would wraping in wax paper, then foil keep it hot????
Has anyone tried the hot brick????
Can't find those heat packs they used to have at stores.
Would a cardboard box packed with newspaper and taped close work???

It's not that big a deal, but I hate cold burgers.

[Barry]

Re: Keeping food hot

A wooden box full of straw works. We used them in the navy. Wrap the food up and pile the straw around it.

[anapuni808]

Re: Keeping food hot

Maybe you should reconsider what you're taking so that you don't have this concern?

[SusieMisajon]

Re: Keeping food hot

What about reheating the burger meat on a chafing dish under a small candle?

[Kungpao]

Re: Keeping food hot

Inside... will you have power?

Possibly a small crock pot? Undercook the burgers a little, show up early, plug the crock in so they finish cooking?

Electric blanket plugged into a power inverter in your car cigarette lighter?

[leashlaws]

Re: Keeping food hot

http://www.nsf.org/consumer/food_saf...rogram=FoodSaf

This will help you. It's a great site but this particular link has answers to
all of your questions. First and foremost would be not to keep food at
room temp. for more than 2 hours.

[Barry]

Re: Keeping food hot

Here is a novel,,,,, My brother made a small metal box which was attached with terry clips to the exhaust inside his engine. His drive to work was more than an hour and his bacon 'n egg was still hot.

[Kungpao]

Re: Keeping food hot

Here is a novel,,,,, My brother made a small metal box which was attached with terry clips to the exhaust inside his engine. His drive to work was more than an hour and his bacon 'n egg was still hot.

OOh OOh, wrap them in foil and place them on your engine block!

[SusieMisajon]

Re: Keeping food hot

http://www.amazon.fr/Manifold-Destin.../dp/1416596232

[Albert]

Re: Keeping food hot

Seems a lot easier to me to just stop in a Jack-in-the-Box and buy a bag of Jumbo Jacks a few minutes before heading to the party.

[scrivener]

Re: Keeping food hot

I've done the brick in a cooler thing and it worked wonderfully. I put one brick in an oven at 400 degrees for about half an hour (that may have been overdoing it). I put a dish towel in the bottom of the cooler (a Coleman cooler about the size of Lil' Playmate, wrapped the brick in another dish towel, and placed that in the cooler. I can't for the life of me remember what I was bringing, but there was enough room for it and that brick kept everything wonderfully warm for hours.

[TATTRAT]

Re: Keeping food hot

Maybe you should reconsider what you're taking so that you don't have this concern?

http://www.nsf.org/consumer/food_saf...rogram=FoodSaf

This will help you. It's a great site but this particular link has answers to
all of your questions. First and foremost would be not to keep food at
room temp. for more than 2 hours.

Don't expect you buns to NOT be sogged out. . .but as for the temperature to hold for that length of time, you get into a world of possible food borne illnesses, holding at anything between 40-140 allows a 2 hours MAX is the "allowed" holding time, but in the industry, it is a 90min window to error on the safe side.

[abunaitoo]

Re: Keeping food hot

I got two hot/cold paks from k-mart.
I have a small 6-pak soft cooler that works wee keeping things cold.
I'd think it would keep things hot.
I'll wrap the burgers in wax paper, then some foil.
Put a hot pak on the bottom, burgers, then the other hot pak on top.
We'll see how it works tomorrow.