Plate

Plates are a block and associated item that can be found in a wide variety of structures, ranging from the holes of the Shire, to the mead halls of Rohan, to the taverns of Dunland. You can also make plates yourself by firing clay plates (crafted with three clay balls in a row) in a furnace.

Once the plate has been placed on a block you can right-click it with a food item to place that item on the plate. Right-clicking on a plate with food upon it will consume the food and heal your player as if you had physically eaten it (if you want to get the food back from the plate, simply break the plate and it will drop itself and the food item). They can also be thrown, causing minor damage to any mob they hit and breaking glass blocks they fly through.

The achievement 'Kitchen Brawler' is awarded for killing a Middle-earth NPC upon whom damage has been inflicted entirely by thrown plates.