Excerpt from Chafing-Dish Recipes The best chafing dishes have two pans, the lower one for hot water and the upper one, called the blazer. The latter is often used without the hot-water pan when the contents will not be injured by the direct flame beneath. The Asbesta lamp of the best chafing dishes hold about one gill of alcohol and will burn from an hour to an hour and a half without refilling if it has been properly filled at the beginning; particular attention should be paid to this part, as it is very annoying to have to refill the lamp while the cooking is going on. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.