cambro
cambro noun: an insulated container for keeping food or drink hot.
Noun
cambro (plural cambros)
- An insulated container for keeping food or drink hot.
- 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
Examples of cambro in a sentence
- 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:
- Pickles rushed me into the manager's office, my hand still stuffed in a cambro of tomato goo.2008, Maura Knight, Feed, page 88:
Forms of cambro
| plural | cambros |
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Origin of cambro
From a trademark of the Cambro Manufacturing Company.
Questions about cambro
- What does cambro mean?
- Cambro means an insulated container for keeping food or drink hot.
- How do you use cambro in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is cambro?
- Cambro is a noun.
- What is the plural of cambro?
- The plural of cambro is cambros.
Words near cambro in the dictionary
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