How to Keep Food Warm At A Tailgate (2024)

FAQs

How to Keep Food Warm At A Tailgate? ›

You can turn a cooler into a warmer easily by gently heating bricks or your Napoleon Pizza Stones and then wrapping them in foil or towels. Designate a cooler to be only for warming and place the warm bricks or stones at the bottom. This can keep your warm foods warm until they can be served.

You can turn a cooler into a warmer easily by gently heating bricks or your Napoleon Pizza Stones and then wrapping them in foil or towels. Designate a cooler to be only for warming and place the warm bricks or stones at the bottom. This can keep your warm foods warm until they can be served.

Chafing dish.

Chafing dishes are ideal for a buffet-style service. They provide consistent warmth and are durable for entertaining. Tip: Fill the chafing dish with hot water to help maintain the temperature of the food. Tip: Use denatured alcohol as a fuel source to keep the chafing dish hot during the party.

Use Slow Cookers or Chafing Dishes

All you need to do is plug them in when you arrive at your tailgate party location and your alcoholic hot dogs or other Booze Dogs products will stay nice and warm until it's time for everyone to eat.

Cooler or Insulated Bag

We may think of using our cooler or insulated shopping bag when transporting food that needs to be kept cold, but both are also great at keeping foods warm. If the food is not in a covered dish, transfer to a covered container or wrap in aluminum foil and store in the cooler or bag.

You can keep tailgate food cold by storing everything in coolers. Just be sure to keep frozen ice packs in all of them. During the tailgate, it's a good idea to close the coolers once everyone has their food and drinks.

Make your own chafing dish with bricks and small cans of sterno. Top the bricks with a cast iron skillet filled with your famous pulled pork, shredded beef or queso dip. Everyone will remark how stylish and smart your tailgate spread is! There's a mini sterno can in the bricks to keep everything warm!

How to stay warm at Tailgate? ›

Staying dry is absolutely crucial for staying warm and comfortable during cold weather tailgating. Make sure your top outer layer is waterproof to protect against snow or rain. There's nothing worse than getting soaked in frigid temperatures! Take a cue from our experience at a recent FSU vs.

Get A Hot Cooler

It is a cooler that keeps your food hot instead of only cold. Most models of hot coolers provide both heating and cooling options, so you'll get a lot of use out of them. Hot coolers are awesome for keeping dishes like queso, chili, chicken wings, and ribs warm.

Slow cookers have a “Warm” setting and that is designed to keep living bacteria out of the food. While it is safe, the food quality will go south after some time, usually a couple of hours.

Insulated containers are a valuable tool for maintaining food temperature. They come in various shapes and sizes and keep food hot for hours. Note that insulated containers don't heat food; they retain its temperature. Enhance insulation by placing the container in an insulated bag.

Aluminium foil should ideally only be used to keep food warm for shorter periods of time, such as less than an hour.

My advice is to put a two- to four-hour limit on hot-held food for both quality and safety best practices. If the cost and waste of discarding long-held chili are a problem, consider heating product in smaller batches with more frequency or reducing your production.

Keep the food at 40 degrees F or colder. Pack your cooler with several inches of ice or use frozen gel-packs, frozen juice boxes or frozen water bottles. Block ice keeps longer than ice cubes. Use clean, empty milk or water jugs to pre-freeze blocks of ice.