Summary
Similar to this report about burner miners when I initially place burner inserters they briefly work before "running out of fuel" despite never having been fuelled and the source items not being burnable.What did you do?
Seen in other scenarios but quick recreation steps that so far work 100% of the time:1) Start a vanilla world (settings do not appear to matter)
2) Tab skip the "cutscene"
3) Collect the iron plates from the ship
4) Craft a single burner inserter
5) Chop down a few trees, craft and place a chest
6) Insert remaining iron plates into chest
7) Place burner inserter, sourcing from the chest (destination can be to bare ground)