Reheat a noodle dish in slow cooker?

[Anonymous]

I've got a noodle dish with a butter sauce that I want to heat up for a buffet dinner. Would I be able to do heat something up the slow cooker that doesn't really have a sauce component, just butter? Or should I heat up in the oven instead? I was hoping for the slow cooker so the food could stay warm for a while since it's a buffet.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't try to reheat a noodle dish, but you might be able to keep it warm. Can you cook the noodles just before serving and then keep in warm in the slow cooker on low during the buffet?

[Anonymous]

Are they egg noodles? I'd be worried that they'd turn to mush. I'd bake, maybe with a cheese-crumb topping to hold in the moisture.

[Anonymous]

Thanks! I might be able to cook the noodler shortly before and keep at room temperature in the hopes that the butter sauce would warm them back up. The noodles are orchiette (spelling?) so they are pretty hardy.

[Anonymous]

Even so, they will probably turn to mush to quote a previous poster. When you look at most slow cooker recipes, the ones with noodles advise adding them towards the end of cook time for this very reason. Consider a baked noodle recipe or a non-noodle recipe for a slow cooker-there are tons.