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Sterno is a brand of jellied denatured alcohol sold in and meant to be burned directly in its can. Popular both in commercial food service and home entertainment, its primary uses are as a fuel for heating chafing dishes in buffets and serving fondue .
Chafing fuel is a fuel used for heating food, typically placed under a chafing dish. [1] It is usually sold in a small canister and burned directly within that canister, with or without a wick.
Esbit brand hexamine tablets. A hexamine fuel tablet (or heat tablet, Esbit) is a form of solid fuel in tablet form. The tablets burn smokelessly, have a high energy density, do not liquefy while burning and leave no ashes.
The Tommy cooker was a compact, portable stove, issued to the troops of the British Army ("Tommies") during World War I and World War II.. During World War II, "Tommy cooker" was also a derogatory nickname for the M4 Sherman tank.
Flambé is a technique where alcohol, such as brandy, is poured on top of a dish and then ignited to create a visual presentation. [3]A variation of the flambé tradition is employed in Japanese teppanyaki restaurants where a spirit is poured onto the griddle and then lit, providing both a dramatic start to the cooking, and a residue on the griddle which indicates to the chef which parts of ...
The development of napalm was precipitated by the use of jellied gasoline mixtures by the Allied forces during World War II. [5] Latex, used in these early forms of incendiary devices, became scarce, since natural rubber was almost impossible to obtain after the Japanese army captured the rubber plantations in Malaya, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Thailand.
The Sterno Group takes significant measures to prevent the Sterno Trademark from being generercized and prevent comments such as the "the Sterno trademark is genericized". If a reference refers to the Sterno Groups’s product, proper usage should appear as: “STERNO® canned cooking fuel.”
A vegetarian patty prepared from crushed soybean, avocado, tomato and beetroot.. This is a list of meat substitutes.A meat substitute, also called a meat analogue, approximates certain aesthetic qualities (primarily texture, flavor and appearance) or chemical characteristics of a specific meat.