I often have friends at home. Generally, I cook and prepare some appetizers myself. A big pot is also prepared at home, and sometimes a big pot is stewed. Chicken, duck, fish, sheep, beef ribs, pork ribs and cauldron dishes are all available. More friends have come and I have gained a little experience. Like you said, sometimes the food is cold before friends arrive. How can we let everyone eat hot dishes? Let me share my experience. First, prepare cold dishes and make all cold dishes in advance. Second, divide the hot dishes you want to cook into easy-to-cook and difficult-to-cook, and prepare all the ingredients. Third, I feel that the guests are coming, and the dishes that are difficult to stew are cooked in advance. When the guests arrive, they will be basically good. Fourth, after the guests come, serve the cold dishes prepared in advance, then fry the simple and easy-to-cook dishes and serve them with the stew, so that the dishes will not be busy or cold.

China people are hospitable. Whenever guests come to our home, they always serve the guests with the best food. The natural dining table is also very rich, and there are often seven dishes and eight bowls. Nowadays, the kitchen area of each family is not large, and the number of pots, pans and stoves is not much, so naturally many dishes are not so hot when they finally arrive in the guest's bowl. China pays attention to one hot dish and three fresh ones, and the temperature is very important for food. Therefore, people all over the country have spontaneously created many ways to heat up after cooking. Vegetables should be washed in advance, and stored in the refrigerator in a fresh-keeping bag with zipper. This trick saves a lot of space than using a plate, and it has a zipper, which can keep the moisture of vegetables well. Tuber vegetables are cut again the next day to avoid nutrient loss; The ingredients of green leaves can be broken and then preserved. Mushroom ingredients, such as dried mushrooms, fungus, tea tree mushrooms, etc., should also be washed and soaked in advance, because there are many impurities in them, and it takes time to prepare, so the preparation work should be done well. Generally, there are only two cooking stoves in the family, so for operations such as stewing meat and cooking soup, let's not use all cooking stoves. We should use rice cookers or electric pressure cookers. Now, the intelligent electric pressure cookers are very good at stewing ribs, stewing beef, getting a pig's trotters and cooking soup, which is equivalent to the third cooking stove in the family, and it has the functions of reservation, timing and heat preservation. It will really burn your mouth when you eat it. Of course, this family banquet often includes stew and soup, especially in winter. Then I suggest you use casserole to make soup. Like Hua 'er's ribs soup, it is cooked slowly together in the morning. Casserole has an advantage, that is, it can lock in moisture and keep warm well. After you cook it hot, cover it and have soup two hours later. It's still hot. It's no exaggeration. This corn sparerib soup made by Huaer last week is delicious, and the corn is delicious. The soup is hot for 2 hours. This adds another good soup to the table. If a friend comes, prepare cold dishes first and make all the cold dishes in advance. Secondly, divide the hot dishes you want to cook into easy-cooked and difficult-cooked, and prepare all the ingredients. I feel that the guests are coming, and cook the dishes that are difficult to stew in advance. When the guests arrive, they will be basically good. Then there is the cold dishes prepared in advance after the guests come, and then the simple and easy-to-cook dishes are fried and served together with the stew, so that the dishes will not be busy or cold.

First, the way of the northeast people

The northeast people like to eat stewed dishes must have a certain relationship with the temperature of the dishes. Guests from the northeast people like to stew a large pot of dishes, whether it is stewed chicken, stewed meat, stew, etc. Anyway, a large pot of stewed dishes must be hot after cooking. Put a bowl on the left and then add it after eating, and you will always eat it hot. The stew is hot, so it's enough to serve with two cold dishes. Therefore, stew is a killer for northeast people to keep the temperature of their dishes.

second, steamed vegetables in Hunan

many families in Liuyang, Hunan like to use all kinds of steamed vegetables when entertaining guests, or put the cooked and fried dishes in a steamer to keep the temperature of the dishes, and then serve them plate by plate after the expiration of the hospitality period. Although the taste of some dishes is lost, the temperature of the dishes is maintained to some extent.

Third, stoves in Hubei

Some people say that Sichuanese like to eat hot pot. In fact, Xiaobian visited many places in Hunan, Hubei and Guizhou, and found that people in Guizhou and Hubei prefer to eat hot pot, especially in Jingzhou, Hubei. Every household should carry a stove when eating, whether in winter or summer, sometimes one is not enough, only two or three stoves are needed. A spicy stove, a white stove, at most, Xiaobian has eaten three stoves. The so-called stove is hot pot, which is how to put dishes in the pot to cook them. In the process of eating, other dishes that have been cooled can be put into the stove for secondary heating, so as to keep it at a boiling temperature forever. Nowadays, with the improvement of kitchen utensils and equipment, there are many ways to keep dishes hot, such as casserole, iron plate, and recently, dish insulation board is popular, which can solve the problem of dishes getting cold to some extent. People in China like to eat hot food, so it is a good business opportunity to think about how to keep the dishes warm all the time.

come uninvited! As a family "chef" who entertains relatives and friends once or twice a month on average, I think I am qualified to answer this question. In order to make a table full of hot dishes, the most important thing is the collocation of dishes. Usually, I will think like this (take eleven or twelve people as an example, no matter how many tables at home): cold dishes are 2 meat and 2 vegetarian dishes, and the table can be served half an hour before the meal, and the juice is ready. If necessary, it will be watered temporarily. 4 steamed vegetables, sausage bacon, butterfly meatballs, etc., steamed in advance and placed in a steamer to keep warm, and directly turned over the bowl to serve at dinner. Braised in brown sauce and braised in yellow, mainly hard dishes. It's also made in advance, so you can put it on the plate before dinner. Soup is sweet and salty. Cook it in soup and put it in a bowl directly. Finally, stir-fry. If there is no helper, it is suggested that two or three can be used. Prepare all kinds of materials in advance, and if necessary, prepare them in advance, and strive to finish them within ten minutes of starting to eat. After all, as the host of a family banquet, you can't be busy in the kitchen. Why don't others just eat? Finally, it is recommended to prepare an insulation board, which has a good effect.

If you plan to entertain friends at home, I suggest you buy a steamer, no matter whether you often do it or not. It is a necessary cooker for cooking at home, and it can be used at any time. It is very practical and convenient for you to use it yourself or for cooking at a party. Moreover, some dishes that need to be steamed are put directly on the plate and steamed on the table, which is more convenient, so the steamer is a must-have item in the kitchen, which is convenient and practical. Then how can we make the dishes hot when they are served together? At this time, this steamer will play a hateful role. First of all, you have to do a very good job of preparation, that is, prepare the dishes that need to be fried in advance. It is recommended to put each one on a plate. Just like many restaurants now, when you order, you can directly choose where to put them. We also need to do this, and put the dishes in advance. Depending on when it arrives, you can make some time-consuming meat dishes ahead of time, and then put them in the steamer to keep warm. If your steamer is bigger, it is no problem to put four or five dishes in, so you will have time to cook four or five dishes, and these dishes are all kept warm. Then when the guests come, you will start cooking other dishes, and you have already cooked the time-consuming dishes in advance. Then the rest is naturally easy to cook. One dish can be cooked in a few minutes, so it may take ten minutes to finish all your remaining dishes, and then take out the dishes in the steamer and serve them together, so that all your dishes will be hot and very convenient. You can try it. That's what I usually do when I have guests at home.