Sterno Buffet Kit Disposable Chafing Dish Buffet Set - Chafing Dishes for Buffet & Catering Food Warmers - Catering Supplies & Food Warming Trays for Buffet Party - 8-Piece Chafing Dish Set

Bought this unit so that we could have hot food at a wedding reception. Worked GREAT! Until the caterer decided that they didn't like the setup and removed the framework and sterno cans and left the hot food on the table to get cold during the actual wedding service, and by the time the reception got started, the food was cold mush. Can't blame the product...only the stupid caterer. Otherwise, it was an easy setup, and we just sacrificed the food holding pans to the garbage can and took the rest home. Will replace with new food holding pans the next time I use it. Is a great idea and functional...but you can't fix stupid. cmz :-(

Note: Chef reviewerI purchased this when I was asked to make arroz con pollo ( rice with chicken) for a friend’s birthday and didn’t have the time to run the local restaurant supply.I was serving 10# of arroz con pollo in this pan.Set up was easy, Sterno was easy to open and light(you will need a lighter)got hot and stayed hot the entire party.I would suggest a sturdier serving utensil than the one supplied, if you are going to be serving something heaving like I was, since it broke for me.Good value for money spent, was sturdy, held up to children and adult, heavy use.

Everything you need (except the lighter) is in the box, and the correct size pans for the rack.I originally purchased aluminum pans on sale at the store, then just a rack, but the pans are not the correct size. Bad purchase for me. The kit is perfect.

I bought these for an outdoor buffet party.They are a little flimsy, but not so much that they can't be re-used. They hold plenty of food and the sternos worked fine without burning the bottoms. I placed a few slabs of wood beneath the sternos so as not to damage the table beneath.I bought 2 of theseWe had wings in 2 of the containers, corn on the cob and sweet rolls in the othersFolded them up and are ready for the next buffet party!

I ordered these as I was hosting a brunch where I needed the food to stay warm for a while. I've never used this kind of apparatus before but have certainly seen it used, and it worked as expected and kept the food warm for hours. One comment I did want to make is this: the description notes that the kit "uses standard sized aluminum pans" - not being too familiar with food service items and what is "standard" in that world, I took that to mean 13"x9" sized aluminum pans. Nope. The aluminum pans for preparing the food were more like 12"x10," which, after a few internet searches, I now believe are "standard" sized pans for this kind of buffet set up.Also, just to clarify what I think was a misunderstanding by another reviewer, the "full" set is a long warming tray and frame, etc. that accomodates 2 of the approx. 12"x10" sized pans. The "half" set appears to be a warming tray and frame, etc. that accomodates just a single 12"x10" pan. I ordered 2 "full" sets but ultimately only needed 3 of the 4 food trays. So I just put the 4th food tray on the warming tray empty along with the one that had food in it (otherwise the water from the warming tray would have steamed up quite a lot and possibly evaporated), and everything was fine.

I haven’t used it yet but when I received it, the 3 pans were bent and I had to try and straighten them out. I don’t think when sitting it on a buffet table, it would look to appealling, crunched all up. The photo is after I straightened them the best I could.

Worked as advertised. Would buy again.

Not very stable sets.