[Sca-cooks] Help with Chafing Dish?

[Susan Lin]

I think yo can still buy sterno in bulk and use a custom container to put
it in.

On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Patricia Dunham <chimene at ravensgard.org>wrote:

> We found a lovely old chafing dish at a second-hand, and thought of
> pot-lucks without electricity, so decided to get it, even if it does look
> pretty 18/19thC, rather than earlier...
>
> BUT!!!  Anybody have any idea where we might find a heating element that
> is 2 & 5/16ths inches diameter? OF COURSE, that's why the thing was at the
> 2d hand -- no heating element ("candle" for under the hot-water
> compartment, which fits quite tightly under the food-containing dish). It
> would probably have to be an alcohol burner, but if it would even hold a
> votive candle, that would be something...
>
> We just thought we'd finally found one today, but it was 2 & 5/8ths, so no
> go. Well, unless DH wants to make the hole we've got larger, 8-(  He could
> do it, but...  We may HAVE to do it anyway, evetually, because modern
> small-size sterno cans are 2 & 3/8's !!! a 16th too big, fer pete sake!
>
> Any ideas gratefully received!
> TIA
> chimene
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