More Dutch households planning fancy Christmas dinners than gourmetten hot plates
This Christmas holiday, households in the Netherlands are more likely to host fancier multi-course dinners, as opposed to the more traditional meals using a gourmet, but only slightly. About 41 percent of people surveyed by RTL Nieuws are planning a more upscale meal, while 39 percent will dust off their gourmet sets, a hot plate where everyone cooks their own food in small pans, similar to raclette.
The use of a gourmet, raclette, teppanyaki, or similar method to cook at the table has fallen out of favor a bit, but the more casual meals are still most likely to be the favorite choice in Flevoland, Groningen, and Overijssel. Residents of Noord-Holland and Friesland were mixed, but households everywhere else in the Netherlands were planning something more chic, according to the news outlet's survey of 21,000 people.
Roughly 71 percent of households will cook their own holiday meal, with 26 percent saying they were more likely to order something from a restaurant for carry-out or delivery. For those cooking at home, roughly 40 percent will have a woman leading the kitchen, and 29 percent of meals are likely to be cooked by men. Women also planned to take on more of the grocery shopping.
About 17 percent of the survey respondents said they will have a large main course, like an entire turkey or ham. About 12 percent were planning a buffet, five percent want to organize a cheese fondue dinner, and five percent will use a pizza oven.
A similar survey by Hart van Nederland also indicated 37 percent will cook their Christmas dinner using a gourmet set, and 77 percent plan to eat meat. That includes the 20 percent of respondents who want to eat steak during the meal. Six percent were likely to go vegetarian or vegan, and five percent plan to eat fish.
