Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Basically bought these because I'm sick of using sternos with water. Bought 3 of these for the holidays. xmas eve is finger food and xmas day is sit down dinner for 30!! So I was very nervous to use for sit down dinner food needs to be hot. So I spent some time testing out with an electric probe using in all different variations. My conclusion... Putting water in large pan to then place in dividers does not heat up enough (Used hot tap water and left on for 1 1/2 hr. only achieved 125 degrees) you need direct contact with the dividers and large pan which is what I'll do for finger food that will be out for basically the whole night (Achieved 134 with plastic covers) ( 144 with no plastic covers used tin foil as cover). For Hot food to serve immediately from oven to people I'm gonna to put food in small pans directly onto heat pad. For larger things like mashed potatoes, directly in large pan which you can put in oven and then directly onto heat pad. I also found if you want the food to be hotter DO NOT use plastic covers (they look pretty but are useless for keeping in heat). I will cover with foil and at the last minute take off foil and put on covers. If you really want to achieve the hottest use tin pans directly on heat pad (184). So basically plastic covers look pretty but useless. DO NOT have to use water and/or sternos!! Much easier to control Temp. compared to sternos and you don't have to worry about those darn things running out or heating up too much. It is 4 days before xmas and I'm all set up!!!! Attached 3 photos showing 3 different ways to set up. Hope this helps all.