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Insulate vs Cambro - What's the difference?

insulate | cambro |

As a verb insulate

is to separate, detach, or isolate.

As a noun cambro is

an insulated container for keeping food or drink hot.

insulate

English

Verb

  • To separate, detach, or isolate.
  • To separate a body or material from others, e.g. by non-conductors to prevent the transfer of electricity, heat, etc.
    • Ceramic can be used to insulate power lines.

    Related terms

    * insular * insulator * insulation * insulable * isolate * isolation * peninsula

    Synonyms

    * isolate

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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.