Now your talking!!
You are the closest that has come to hitting the mark, but there are refinements necessary in order for us to choose this design. A few variations. are going to go a long way for us and will give you a very good chance of winning this contest.
1. Move the dish away from the name
2. Please make the dish look a little more elliptical. In other words, stretch out the side to make wider..not taller.
Reference for elliptical style dish: shawdirect.ca
3. Try using the name from Entry# 26 and put the dish above the name. But make the dish a little smaller.
4. Try blending and fading some light orange color into the grey starting from bottom towards the middle of the dish. This will show the representation of warmth.
5. Try fading out the top of the letters in the word HEAT. It sort of represents an upward movement which happens with heat rising.
6. And any other variations you can think of.
You are very close!!! Please work with me on this and you will find yourself in a very good position.
Cheers,
Blair