Crossword clues for sterno
sterno
- Fuel in tins
- Dish warmer?
- Caterer's warmer
- Caterer's can
- Camper's cooking fuel
- Camp cook's fuel
- Buffet tray warmer
- Buffet table fuel
- Buffet dish heater
- Jelly spread with hors d'oeuvres
- Jelly fuel
- Jelly for heating
- Jelly brand used for fuel
- Jelly at a wedding
- Jellied fuel
- Inedible buffet jelly
- Heat in a can
- Fuel with a characteristic pink color
- Fuel jelly
- Fuel for a camp stove
- Fondue accessory trademark
- Fire-in-a-can brand
- Chafing-dish heater
- Chafing-dish fuel
- Chafing dish warmer
- Chafing dish go-with
- Caterer's portable heat source
- Canned heat?
- Canned cooking fuel
- Canful under a chafing dish
- Candle Lamp brand
- Campsite fuel
- Camper's heat source
- Camper's fuel
- Buffettable heat source
- Buffet table-heater
- Buffet heat source
- Buffet burner
- Caterer's food warmer
- Barbecue fuel
- Jelly used for fuel
- Caterer's supply
- Buffet table staple
- Chafing dish fuel
- Caterer's heater
- Camper's jelly
- Cookout aid
- Catering aid
- Caterer's aid
- Buffet warmer
- Camping fuel
- Buffet table heater
- Smorgasbord staple
- Jelly seen on buffet tables
- Camper's aid
- "Perfection under fire" product
- Camper's canful
- Pink fuel
- Portable heater
- Breastbone: Comb. form
- Fuel in a can
- Breastbone: Prefix
- Canned heat
- Cooking fuel
- Buffet-table heater
- Buffet heater
- Buffet fuel
- Camper's heater
- Portable heat source
- It can add heat to an affair
- Caterer's fuel
- Camp-stove fuel
- Buffet table heat source
- Steam table fuel
- Heat source for backpackers
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
U.S. proprietary name for solidified alcohol used as fuel for cooking stoves, 1915, by S. Sternau & Co., New York, N.Y. Noted by 1935 as a source of dangerous but cheap alcohol for drinking.
Wikipedia
Sterno ("canned heat") is a fuel made from denatured and jellied alcohol. It is designed to be burned directly from its can. Its primary uses are in the food service industry for buffet heating and in the home for fondue and as a chafing fuel for heating chafing dishes. Other uses are for camp stoves and as an emergency heat source (deer-blind). It is also a popular fuel for use with toy and model steam and other external combustion engines. Sterno cans were sometimes taken on trips and used to heat pressing and curling irons and hot combs, for hairstyling, when travelers were staying at hotels and not located near salons which offered certain services that required these styling tools.
Usage examples of "sterno".
We collected our D-cell batteries and our Sterno, our duct tape and our plywood, and then we watched Andrew march due west.
At least they had water, and could use Sterno tabs to heat enough for coffee.
Refusing to think, she blew out the candles, put the food in the fridge and turned off the sterno, no longer noticing which composer was playing.
Scholl's corn pads, men's and women's nylon head caps with chin straps to press hair while sleeping, a bowl of blue stone good for body lice, tins of Sterno canned heat good for burning or drinking, Halloween postcards and all the latest in enamelware hygiene utensils.
I opened a can of campbell's chicken gumbo soup and I put it on a Sterno stove.
He apologized for how long it took to heat up a bean burrito and a chile relleno over his small sterno flame.
In Bill's top ten list of favorite libations containing CO2HO2O, wine was maybe number nine, with Sterno as number ten and good old brain-destroying grain alcohol with all its varied applications leading the pack.
They climbed the wide marble stairs to the mezzanine floor and crossed an echoing landing that smelled of Sterno.