A chafing dish for rapidly bringing catered food items up to the temperatures required for safe food handling and optimal flavor enhancement, and even heating of the food items thereafter without a constant monitoring of the flame height. The invention utilizes butane gas as a heat source and a burner control mechanism with a butane burner integrated into the base of a chafing dish, a bracket to hold a butane can securely in place, an engaging apparatus to start the flow of butane from the butane can to the burner, a copper tube to transport butane from the butane can to the burner, an electronic ignition switch and insulated wiring to ignite the butane at the burner, a burner control mechanism and regulator to regulate the flow of butane to the burner for the purpose of allowing a range of flame height and temperature, and a series of ventilation holes in the base of the chafing dish.