i recently learned you’re not supposed to run a microwave with nothing in it/it can fry itself broken.
but i want to heat up a plate to help keep the pancakes i put on it warm like they do in diners. putting just a plate in my microwave causes it to start freaking out 'cause i guess there’s not enough stuff in there to absorb the energy(? this is what google tells me).
are the diners just putting the plates on a burner on low? that feels wrong.
Put some water on the plate before putting them into the microwave.
Microwave heats water, water heats plate.
Microwaves work by using, well, microwaves to rotate polar molecules very fast, causing them to heat up. Like spinning a magnet around your food thousands of times a second. Normally it rotates and heats water in most foods. Soak a towel or paper towel in water, put it on the plate and heat it up.
Bonus: metal can’t hold on to their electrons, so instead of the molecules spinning, the electrons rotate through the entire metal, which is why there can be electrical arcs if you put some metals in the microwave.
Put them in the oven on low setting?
but that’s so much woooork though! for slightly-warmed plates! i gotta wait for it to heat up just to put a plate in there? my time is too valuable for such lengths!
…bah, this is probably the right answer.
Just put them in before you start making the pancake batter, and you don’t need to wait for it to preheat, actually better not to.
I just put them in, set it to 150 (lowest it will go), and set the timer for like 3 minutes. At that low of a temp, it really doesn’t take long to warm the plates. If you’re really in a hurry, you could move the top rack as high as it will go, put the plate there, and set it to broil for 1-2 minutes.
You’ll just break the plate
That’s a dangerous suggestion lol. Broil settings get really hot really fast
Hey, I can wait 3-4 minutes at 150. And they’re not my plates lol.
You can use any temp, really. There’s a pretty good window of a minute or two for being able to touch them. Just don’t leave them in too long and always use a potholder to pull them out just in case.
They use a salamander. (A broiler.) A sort of oven with the heating elements on the top of the chamber.
No, they use plate warmers.
My kitchen does not have enough room to accommodate something of that magnitude. Phooey.
Maybe a heat lamp?
I need that for my
weedvitamin d deficiency, and my cats hogs it.
Do you have an oven?
I do, and I’m learning from this thread that that may be my solution.
Now to learn about what makes a plate oven-safe, though I’m sure it’s fine at the lowest temperature.
Assuming the plates are ceramic, there should be zero issue. Same with glass.
I wouldn’t put plastic, melamine, or paper in the oven simply due to the possible disastrous fallout were the temperature somehow set too high by accident.
I appreciate your clarifying what shouldn’t be put in the oven given the context of the community we’re in.
Plus I may have, at some point in my life, put a plastic (electric) kettle on a burner when my parents asked me to put the kettle on.
…I should probably be dead by now.
As a danger to yourself and others, you should put up a sign that says “Beware of Doug.”
I need to delete this thread in the event my spouse sees it and gets any ideas.
If you have a grill directly above the oven, put them in there whilst the oven is on. They’ll warm up nicely.
Can you use hot water? Or water on the plate in microwave
If you’re to the level of warming plates in your pancake game, those must be some kickass flapjacks.
Flappy flabby fatbastard fluffy flapjacks, ferda.
Put it in the oven on lowest setting
Lol you guys are so innocent.
Usually what I do is put the plate in the oven towards the end of whenever I need to take food out so it heats up a couple of mins or so then take everything out. Use oven mitts in case you left the plate in there a bit too long.
I put the plates upside down in the sink at let the hot water run over them for a little bit.
Microwave, 2 plates, the upper one turned upside down.
Half a teaspoon of water between them, or even a little less.
15 seconds, and already that little amount of water is turned into steam and your plates are hot.
When you take them out, wipe them dry immediately, otherwise they could cool down quickly.
The oven? I never used anything else. Just put on warm and throw them in while making food and also move the food off to as I finish some.
Stick a bowl of water on top of it.
The microwave works fine, been doing so for years
