• @bitchkat@lemmy.world
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    222 days ago

    Sort of. When signing up to contribute something for the potluck at the local Lutheran church, you can specify if you’re bringing a hot dish (food that requires cooking) or cold dish (not cooked).

    Since most people go for something easy to prepare, the hot dish just became all casseroles.

    • ✺roguetrick✺
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      20 days ago

      It’s etymologically indicated that it’s descendent from hot pot, which is also a method of cooking several ingredients in one pot and serving from that pot vs serving individual bowls. It’s called a hot pot because it’s served from a pot that is hot (as it’s the cooking vessel you boiled everything in). Not because the resulting soup is hot. Itself descendent from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot-au-feu (pot on fire)and similar European dishes (not the Chinese version which we usually mean when we say hot pot nowadays).