hot plate

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Here’s how it works: That warmer western Pacific acts like a hot plate under the atmosphere, creating rising air that sends waves rippling eastward, like dropping a stone in a pond.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2025

It’s faster and prettier than a regular hot plate.

From Slate • Apr. 7, 2024

One woman cooked an early dinner on a hot plate, seasoned chicken sizzling in oil, before letting the next person use the hot plate for their own meal.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 13, 2023

I cooked ramen on a hot plate in our one working bathroom.

From Salon • Apr. 15, 2023

Like most of the shacks, Joe’s had no indoor plumbing and his room came with only enough electricity for one lightbulb overhead and a hot plate on a shelf.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown