It does not smoke, wastes less rapidly, and in the end will prove quite as economical.
=Are Midnight Suppers Hygienic ?= "Being no further enemy to you Than the constraint of hospitable zeal." In regard to the chafing-dish and its most prominent use, some one may fittingly ask: Is it hygienic to eat at midnight?
Can one keep one's health and eat late suppers?
As in all things pertaining to food, no set rules can be given to meet every case; much depends upon constitutional traits, individual habits and idiosyncrasies.

One may practise what another cannot attempt.

As a rule, however, people who eat a hearty dinner, after the work of the day is done, do not need to eat again until the following breakfast hour.
Those who are engaged, either mentally or physically, throughout the evening, cannot with impunity, eat a very hearty meal previous to that effort; but after their work is done they need nourishing food, and food that is both easily digested and assimilated.

But even these should not eat and then immediately retire; for during sleep all the bodily organs, including the stomach, become dormant.

Food partaken at this hour is not properly taken care of, and in too many cases must be digested when the individual has awakened, out of sorts, the next morning.
It is well to remember, also, that, at any time after food is eaten, there should be a period of rest from all active effort; for then the blood flows from the other organs of the body to the stomach, and the work of digestion is begun.