Workers already scuttle about in the 200, 000-square-foot plant like ants on a hot plate.

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Bruce travels to races with two suitcases, one for clothes and another for food and a hot plate.

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The fish (I no longer felt I deserved to call it by its rightful name), though undercooked, was vastly superior to the canned ravioli I heated on a hot plate every night.

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Humans, for example, may hold onto a hot plate that contains food whereas they may drop an empty plate, showing that we take into account differing motivational requirements when responding to pain.

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But Mrs Child appeared on set with a frying pan, a portable hot-plate, an apron, a whisk and a dozen eggs, and merrily whipped up an omelette as she was being interviewed.

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He greets a cook and lifts up a plate of piping hot coconut prawns.

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Not some ratty little hot plate thing, a full blown barbeque.

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But in a central neighborhood where luxury apartments stand next to 1920s-era lane houses, Ms. Niu and her husband are crammed under the stairs of an old home in a windowless room that fits little besides their single bed and electric hot plate.

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But McGrath is optimistic, demonstrating to CNN how a wok can be used to stir-fry on the rangemaster's hot plate.

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The first time he fired up his double hot plate, the fuse-box door was open and he witnessed a cerulean flash and a rattail of smoke, the first of four fuses it took to fry one egg.

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