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  • noun Plural form of hotplate.

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Examples

  • We know where the good markets are now, the cheap butcher, the best baker in our neighbourhood, the guy who sells the best mussels and fish — and we cook up our little feasts on our humble two hotplates with, I like to think, a suitably Parisian elan and imagination and attention to detail!

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » A love of words 2010

  • Sit down, shut up and let the people with new ideas handle the hotplates buddy .... mindless continuation of our previous policies, actions, statements and overall positioning towards Iran WILL NOT GENERATE PROGRESS.

    McCain again pans president's Iran response 2009

  • I guess the park staff has seen it all, as Mexicans are used to transporting all sorts of equipment for work and recreation because electric hotplates, propane tanks, pets and weapons are also prohibited.

    Everybody's Happy At Morelos's Las Huertas Adventure Paradise 2008

  • I guess the park staff has seen it all, as Mexicans are used to transporting all sorts of equipment for work and recreation because electric hotplates, propane tanks, pets and weapons are also prohibited.

    Everybody's Happy At Morelos's Las Huertas Adventure Paradise 2008

  • There was a table with hotplates to fry up the hash browns, the scrambled eggs, and the sausage slab.

    Archive 2007-12-01 2007

  • Unlike alternatives such as electric hotplates and open-grills, an induction cooker creates no heat; only the vessel used for cooking is heated.

    Home Energy Savings in The Kitchen 2009

  • Sometimes he felt this great throbbing, burning pain in his knees, as though his kneecaps were hotplates.

    Naked 2009

  • The police and magistrates turned up hundreds of details of the building's interior – handles, latches, footprints, nightclothes, carpets, hotplates – and of its inhabitants 'habits.

    'The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective' 2008

  • In Beijing's San Lu Ju, most residents live in tiny unheated rooms and cook outdoors over electric hotplates.

    'THIS IS REALLY HOME' 2007

  • By 1889 Rathenau had two thousand employees and his catalogue included curling tongs, cigar lighters, irons, tea kettles, and hotplates.

    American Connections James Burke 2007

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