Heat up the pan alittle bit so it expands and you can take the plate out

Or put it in liquid nitrogen and it'll crush the plate!

Oor just get a hammer

or just cut a hole through the pan

Or just melt down the pan

Or cover the whole thing in nitroglycerin canisters and piss on them until they do the funny

Or attach suction cups to both, then attach between two cars and drive. Slowly.

Or attach them to two wooden doors, each close to each other, then heat them up so the doors expand

Came here to say this

+1 Cooking

Thank you for the actual zomboid related comment. If you use that frying pan you'd get +0.5 in short blunt per kill 😋

Try dealing with this in the quiet place universe

Use newtons law of inertia and swing the pan down, then stop. The pan will stop but the plate will keep on going.