Safety
Care must always be taken to ensure that there is sufficient clearance between the appliance location and combustible materials above them. In addition, a hot plate should not be located in a place where the heat control of the appliance would be accessible to children and others unfamiliar with its operation.
There is another type of ceramic "hot plate" also called "Heat Retentive Plates" that remain hot for half an hour after preheating them for only one minute in a 1200 Watt microwave oven; they can be handled safely by the rim with bare hands (The rim does not get hot).
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Famous quotes containing the word safety:
“Love no man in good earnest, nor no further in sport
neither, than with safety of a pure blush thou mayst in
honor come off again.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“... what a family is without a steward, a ship without a pilot, a flock without a shepherd, a body without a head, the same, I think, is a kingdom without the health and safety of a good monarch.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
“Can we not teach children, even as we protect them from victimization, that for them to become victimizers constitutes the greatest peril of all, specifically the sacrifice—physical or psychological—of the well-being of other people? And that destroying the life or safety of other people, through teasing, bullying, hitting or otherwise, “putting them down,” is as destructive to themselves as to their victims.”
—Lewis P. Lipsitt (20th century)