cambro

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noun

An insulated container for keeping food or drink hot.

UncommonScrabble 12

Meanings

nouncambro (plural cambros)

plural cambros

  1. 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 88
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    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 192

    During 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 64

    You'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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APA

cambro. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cambro

MLA

“cambro.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cambro. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cambro,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cambro.

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