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.

    • doug@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
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      6 days ago

      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.

      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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        6 days ago

        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.

        • doug@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
          4·
          6 days ago

          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.