Meanings
plural cambros
- An insulated container for keeping food or drink hot.
Pickles rushed me into the manager's office, my hand still stuffed in a cambro of tomato goo.
2008, Maura Knight, Feed, page 883 more examples
At seven o'clock, on schedule, one of Chef James's staff arrived with the portable insulated containers known to caterers as Cambros.
2000, Christopher Allen, Kimberly Allen, A Butler's Life: Scenes from the Other Side of the Silver Salver, page 192During transportation and set-up, a holding oven, or cambro, is usually required to keep food hot. These are used to keep dinner rolls, roasts, turkeys, chicken breasts and all other hot food at the right temperature[…]
2003, Sony Bode, Successful catering, page 64You'll find a multitude of uses for these—cooking a chicken stew to baking cookies, transporting individual appetizers and using as shelves in cambros.
2006, Lora Arduser, Douglas Robert Brown, The professional caterer's handbook, page 532
Origin
From a trademark of the Cambro Manufacturing Company.
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