Elite Gourmet Dual Tray Buffet Server

This buffet server is fantastic. This is the one you want to buy. If you are going to do any type of get-together/party and want to serve real, hot food. I was lucky to get it on sale. But as good as this is I would have paid full price for it. I actually bought two of them.I wanted for the first time in my life to host a Thanksgiving dinner. When I talked to anyone about it, they all said getting all the different foods to be hot at the same time was a real difficult feat to pull off. Especially if you were making some of the foods in advance.So I started reading lots of reviews and researched everything I could about serving Buffets. Each serving buffet I read about, said it was crucial to have the food hot first. THEN put it in the serving tray so it would stay hot. The Buffett is not designed to heat up the food. It is designed to maintain the food at the level of heat you start with.Well this model has steel serving trays that are sturdy just like a cooking pot it does not bend. I put the pre-prepared food in the serving tray covered it with Tin foil and then put it directly in the oven to heat it up. Once it was hot THEN I placed the serving tray in the Buffett warming tray. I served turkey, baked potatoes, candied yams, stuffing, roasted green beans with melted cheese, and gravy. Each and every dish was nice and hot even when people came back for seconds and thirds. This warming tray maintained the perfect temperature for 6 hours. Nothing was dried out, or over cooked or soggy. It was perfect. I could not have asked for more.1. Serving trays are made of steel very sturdy they do not bend and they are dishwasher safe easy to clean2. There are 3 steel serving trays, each tray has a see thru dome lid with a handle and a slot to put a serving spoon thru3. This unit has a light that tells you it is on or off so you are sure when it is working.4. It has 3 levels of settings for temperature control, low medium and high5. This buffet has a very short electric cord this is in fact a safety feature.6. This particular model can be used in 3 different ways A use serving trays with dome tops for Buffett as I did B you can cook a pasta dish in the large tray with handles and then serve directly from that tray C if you have hors d’oeuvres use the bottom tray that is the warming tray to keep them warm and serve them warm D. Read the manual it will take all of 3 minutes it is short and to the point explains everything clearly.At first glance it Is not obvious you have 3 different ways to use this Buffet. Once you understand how versatile it is you may decide like me, that one is not enough.