placing cold food directly on an unadjustable hotplate is a machlokes. The motive of the meikilim is that with cooked, dry food there is no bishul achar bishul. With no knob, there is also no shema yatte, risk of increasing the fire. The remaining issue is mechzi k’mevashel, the appearance of bishul. Since cooking is not usually done on a hot plate, they hold this is not relevant either as noone will think you are cooking raw food.
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