English

Noun

cambro ‎(plural cambros)

1. An insulated container for keeping food or drink hot.
   • 2000, Christopher Allen, Kimberly Allen, A Butler's Life: Scenes from the Other Side of the Silver Salver, page 192:

     At seven o'clock, on schedule, one of Chef James's staff arrived with the portable insulated containers known to caterers as Cambros.

   • 2003, Sony Bode, Successful catering, page 64:

     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 […]

   • 2006, Lora Arduser, Douglas Robert Brown, The professional caterer's handbook, page 532:

     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.

   • 2008, Maura Knight, Feed, page 88:

     Pickles rushed me into the manager's office, my hand still stuffed in a cambro of tomato goo.