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Cambre vs Cambro - What's the difference?

cambre | cambro |

As nouns the difference between cambre and cambro

is that cambre is while cambro is an insulated container for keeping food or drink hot.

cambre

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • * 1858 , Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine , page #613:
    • To the southward of this is another entrance which opens into a port or cambre for boats and lumps, and then into a smaller basin?de?flot for the smaller steamers, and for the loading of lighters with provisions, &c.
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    cambro

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.