Yeti vs. Modern Host: Which Insulated Serving Plates Are Best?

I got a thermos Kind of amazing these days. Did you notice? the Best double wall vacuum insulated travel mugs It can literally keep your coffee hot all day long. I left my colleague Carter Move’s mug (See on Amazon) In the car for hours while going to the farmer’s market and meeting a friend for lunch, only to discover that my coffee was still very hot and tasted very much like it did when I brewed it. It seems like a miracle.

So when a new company called Modern host I offered to do the same with candied potatoes or Brussels sprouts, and with a beautiful new double-walled, vacuum-insulated serving dish, I was ready to fall in love – as much as one can fall in love with a serving dish.

If the dish works well at keeping food hot for long periods, dining and picnics are the most obvious applications. But even just serving hotter food at home is life-changing in its own way.

I’ve cooked multiple seven-course feasts for my family over the past month, while testing Thanksgiving delivery meal kitsTiming is always the hardest part of a multi-portion meal. It’s sad to split cabbage before dinner because the turkey ran too long and the greens got cold. It only takes 20 minutes of rest to save Christmas!

Interestingly, Host Modern’s PR is promoting their serving dish as a “food yeti.” But of course, Yeti — one of the stalwarts in the hot stuff and cool cool stuff game — similarly makes a Rambler vacuum-insulated bowl, which is also, quite obviously, a Yeti for food. Who is the declared yeti for food is the most yeti for food? Yeti or modern host? I filled the bowls for the showdown.

First, it’s worth asking if anyone needs a thermal serving dish. Is Thanksgiving preserved, improved, and its pleasures? included? Or is it all just cold comfort? I evaluated each brand’s ability to keep liquid and solid food hot longer, versus a basic lid 4-quart pyrex mixing bowl ($32) Which costs a fraction of a yeti or modern host.

I also used each bowl at a family feast, as a road test, and recorded comments made by family members. Liking is also important in something you hope to keep in your life. We call this the mother-sister test.

I’ll spare you some suspense here. Serving dishes with large mouths do not and cannot work as well as a travel mug in keeping things hot or cold. Most of the heat loss in a vacuum insulated thermos comes out of the lid. The lid on the large serving plate is too large. You can feel the heat seeping out. But both the Yeti and Host Modern still perform better than non-insulated serving dishes at keeping your food warm longer. Here are the results.

Specs: Host Modern vs Yeti Rambler Bowl

The largest Yeti Rambler bowl and the Host Modern serving bowls are, in some ways, radically different beasts—but they have roughly the same advertised serving capacity.

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