单词 | chafing dish |
释义 | chafing dish/ˈtʃeɪfɪŋ dɪʃ /noun 1A cooking pot with an outer pan of hot water, used for keeping food warm.If hot food must sit out for longer than two hours, use warming trays, slow cookers or chafing dishes to keep the food hot....
1.1A metal pan containing a spirit lamp or burning charcoal, used for cooking at table.As Elizabeth David has explained, this device ‘ultimately became the elegant silver-plated chafing dish set over a spirit lamp and used for the table cookery of Edwardian dishes’....
OriginLate 15th century: from the original (now obsolete) sense of chafe 'become warm, warm up'. |
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