Anyone use Cambros ?

[Longo1908]

Originally Posted by jmoney7269

we have the 300 cambro with 2 winco stainless 6" pans and lids, best $280 we ever spent for comping. it sits on the table and will hold food for a loooooooong time hot. love how it sits on the table also. here is another tip not sure if people know of it, take your standard table, get some 2"x2' pvc sch40 and lift up your table, awesome for doing all the prep, really saves the back. as far as the cambro goes, we have gotten to where we like finishing way early so we are not rushed. chicken is usually finished 30 min early, ribs, 1 hr and briskie and butts around 5 hrs early. its all about the time management at comps, and i like spending my time drinkin a ice cold miller light!

Does your bark suffer sitting in foil that long?

[Stoke&Smoke]

Originally Posted by SCSmoke

Condensation drips. I guess I could put a sheet pan under the ice tray but have never had any issue keeping stuff cold with the tray in the bottom

Thanks, maybe we'll try that next time. I haven't had the condensation issues, but an ounce of prevention......

[Sawdustguy]

Originally Posted by Longo1908

Does your bark suffer sitting in foil that long?

Not really. I don't want my bark crunchy.

[MikeJ65]

I just got a Cambro S-series 400. I like the fact that there is not a gasket to tear or clean around. A single 400 was big enough for us, but we would have probably needed two 300's. I use 2 1/2" deep pans which work well with the 1 1/2" support spacing and are deep enough for foiled pork or brisket. It also has a single latch and no handles protruding from the top.

[John Bowen]

I struggled all last year with coolers and bought a Cambro this past December. We used it in our first comp this past weekend and it worked like a dream.

I tested it last month - one hotel pan of boiling hot water and the cambro stayed at 150 degrees for over 3 hours. It might have gone longer but I started drinking beer.

[accuseal]

Carlisle works fine. RD has them for under $200

[Rondigsit]

It worked like a charm, I would definately pick one up if you have the spare change!

[Kave Dweller]

We found two cambros and a cambro coffee holder (hot water for our use) in a local paper for $100 bucks, took a year, but we found em.

[Longo1908]

For those who like good bark does anyone find that it suffers inside the cambro?

[roksmith]

The cambro will create a hot steamy enviroment, so if you're looking for a dry enviroment to hold in, a cambro might not be the ticket... although most of them do have a vent you can open.. that will decrease the holding efficiency though.
Bottom line is if it's wrapped in foil, the bark will suffer regardless of where you hold it.

[Kave Dweller]

It's a humid environment, but my big problem is worrying about being done on time, so I have a tendency of pullin meat at 7am, ill give up bark to still have hot turn ins

[J&B'sBBQ]

I just found two of these on CL for $50 each. I've set up to get them this weekend as we're doing our first competition next month.

Thanks for all the input!

[TheJackal]

Search Craigslist. We got a Cambro 400 for $70 from a restaurant that was going out of business.

EDIT: J&B, you posted right before me! Great job on the CL find. That's where we got ours!