[Sca-cooks] OOP: How to use a chafing dish?

[Liam Fisher]

I used to work at a place where we'd scoop the sterno out and put it in
little mesh containers.  The mesh regulates the burning by breaking up the
flames a bit.

Buy a large base column glass candle holder, they'll fit the bottom end of
the Sterno can, and are lower profile than the chafing dish.  (you know, the
decorative ones, small  glass square with a lip, you can get them at
Walmart - in the isle with the vile scented candles).
It keeps the hot sterno from hitting  the table-top if the dish is bumped
and setting anything remotely flamable ablaze
because the dish catches the spillage and it either flames out or cools down
and gels.
(like the top of those folding tables that every rented feasthall has, they
burn nicely.  ...and yes, I have tested this...)

Cadoc MacDairi
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Mountain Confederation
Shire of Blak Rose
East Kingdom
Under a rock
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Carroll-Mann" <rcmann4 at earthlink.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 11:29 AM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] OOP: How to use a chafing dish?


> I bought a chafing dish at the thrift shop yesterday, for eating hot
> food off-board, and also for times when the power goes out (electric
> stove).  The top is like a small cake rack, so it can hold more than
> one size/shape dish, and there is a horizontal ring at the bottom,
> that holds the fuel container.  It is the kind I often see at Chinese
> restaurants -- an opening about 1-1/2" wide, and a circle of smaller
> holes with a sliding lid that can completely or partially cover them.
> Inside is something white, covered with metal mesh.  Since the
> white stuff would not burn, no matter how many matches I inserted,
> I conclude that it is merely intended to hold the (liquid?) fuel.  What
> kind does it take?  And where can I get some?
>
> The bottom ring was the right size to admit the can of Sterno that I
> also bought at the thrift shop.  However, it did not hold the Sterno
> off the table (actually my marble slab).  The Sterno instructions say
> never to let the can come into direct contact with the table or
> tablecloth.  Is this a serious concern, or a legal CYA?  Would it
> suffice to put the whole chafing dish unit on top of a plate or
> something?
>
> I'd very much like to be able to use this thing, but I'd like to do it
> both conveniently and safely.
>
>
> Brighid ni Chiarain *** mka Robin Carroll-Mann
> Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
> rcmann4 at earthlink.net
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