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I'm assuming asking this question is ok since questions about kitchen equipment and cutlery are permitted.

So far I've only found steel plates that have a vertical edge. Do these vertical-edged plates have a specific name that I could search for, to check if they are available as a microwavable plates?
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Most plates are pretty flat, which causes food to annoyingly go off the edge and onto the table.
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    The top one doesn't look like a plate; it looks like one of those small trays they serve Thali on. – Tetsujin May 08 '20 at 07:58
  • "*Pie plate*" seems to yield some results – Duarte Farrajota Ramos May 08 '20 at 11:37
  • @Tetsujin: The steel plates are available in many sizes, including 6 inch diameter. Thali itself means "plate", and is just a way of serving the food. We take the katori's from the thali and place them on the table before starting the meal. The steel plate is a full-fledged dinner plate. – Nav May 08 '20 at 15:10
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    @DuarteFarrajotaRamos: Thank you. Although "pie plate" isn't the right type, your reply led me to "raised edge dinner plate" and "divided scoop dinner plate". – Nav May 08 '20 at 15:13
  • When I was young and learning ESL(English as second language) I was taught the flat one is a dish while the raised edge one is a plate. But here it says the compete opposite: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/6276/whats-the-difference-between-the-words-plate-and-dish – user3528438 May 08 '20 at 16:22
  • @user3528438: I agree with the answer on english.stackexchange. Hence the name "dishwasher". – Nav May 09 '20 at 04:46
  • Except that soup is served in a [soup plate](https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&rls=en&sxsrf=ALeKk01xORh2hOBHormlWA6xDmkf8LGPkQ:1589010458254&source=univ&tbm=isch&q=soup+plate), strictly speaking [a bowl with a very wide, flat rim]; though almost everybody calls it a dish. tbh, no-one has ever translated 'thali' for me before now. In the UK it's pretty much defined as 'a selection of various foods in small dishes, served on a tray'. The material is almost always steel for both. You eat it straight out of the dishes, still on the tray. – Tetsujin May 09 '20 at 07:53
  • This is news to me. I'm a native speaker of American English and I've always considered "plate" and "dish" to be interchangeable. Soup is served in "soup bowls" around here. – gnicko Jul 16 '20 at 20:55

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With Duarte's help, I found the plates are:

There are also lipped edge plates, but it doesn't always satisfy the requirement of food not going off the edge.

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  • There are also ‘deep plates’ and ‘wide bowls’ that might serve the intended purpose. Also ‘pasta bowl’. They tend to have a more curved transition than what was pictured, though. – Joe Mar 03 '23 at 21:39