Chief Longwind Of The North
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We had an incident (or rather, I was the cause of an incident) just before searving Thanksgiving dinner. About 30 minutes before the guests were to arrive, a glass chafing dish exploded in my dining room, spewing glass shards over a two foot area, along with the bread dressing that was in it.
I would have thought that a chafing dish would be able to withstand the heat of the little alcohol burner cups that came with it. I do have to admit that I had added an extra sterno-burning cup under the dish. But even so... The dish was filled with bread dressing, the best I have ever made, by the way, and about twenty minutes after the bruners were lit under the chafing dish, we heard what sounded like something falling off of the dining room table. We ran in to see the alcohol cups still burning, even though they were pretty much buried by the dressing, and a very broken glass chafing dish. The mess was easily cleaned up, the floor vacumed, and everything put back in order, except from my dressing of course. I was just dissapointed.
Fortunately, I had cooked 1/2 of the dressing in the oven, and 1/2 in the bird (stuffing). So I still had good stuffing with the meal, just not as much for left-overs (can anybody say turkey and dressing sandwiches). My metal chafing dish worked pefectly. I will never own a glass chafing dish again.
I should have known better. I mean, uneven heating of glass will cause tremendous pressures do to thermal expansion and cause catastropic failure. But I do have to ask, how did the old Visions Cookware get around this problem?
Seeeeeeya; Goodweed of the North
I would have thought that a chafing dish would be able to withstand the heat of the little alcohol burner cups that came with it. I do have to admit that I had added an extra sterno-burning cup under the dish. But even so... The dish was filled with bread dressing, the best I have ever made, by the way, and about twenty minutes after the bruners were lit under the chafing dish, we heard what sounded like something falling off of the dining room table. We ran in to see the alcohol cups still burning, even though they were pretty much buried by the dressing, and a very broken glass chafing dish. The mess was easily cleaned up, the floor vacumed, and everything put back in order, except from my dressing of course. I was just dissapointed.
Fortunately, I had cooked 1/2 of the dressing in the oven, and 1/2 in the bird (stuffing). So I still had good stuffing with the meal, just not as much for left-overs (can anybody say turkey and dressing sandwiches). My metal chafing dish worked pefectly. I will never own a glass chafing dish again.
I should have known better. I mean, uneven heating of glass will cause tremendous pressures do to thermal expansion and cause catastropic failure. But I do have to ask, how did the old Visions Cookware get around this problem?
Seeeeeeya; Goodweed of the North