{"id":23244,"date":"2015-02-11T02:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T09:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=23244"},"modified":"2015-02-10T09:46:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T16:46:56","slug":"cambro-camtray-cafeteria-tray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/cambro-camtray-cafeteria-tray\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambro Camtray Cafeteria Tray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cafeteria trays, and this one in particular, are a favorite for creating a work surface that I can easily move around and keep things contained. In the kitchen I find them indispensable, but it is helpful whenever I am working on anything with small parts (like working with an Arduino board) or make a mess (anything with glitter). I got my trays 20 years ago they still hold up nicely! <\/p>\n<p>Major benefits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The tray has a raised lip around the entire tray, so any liquid or small pieces doesn&#8217;t go right off the surface. <\/li>\n<li>I think it makes a great cutting board. You can put a bunch of veggies to one side (and they don&#8217;t roll off because of the lip), chop them up, and the juices don&#8217;t flow off the board. <\/li>\n<li>While fiberglass isn&#8217;t the best surface for your knife, it is way better than doing it on most counter tops! Just put a cutting board on the tray if you are concerned. (The flexible ones are great)<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve also used it under crock pots that I think may boil over, filling flasks when I don&#8217;t want any liquids to be lost, and as a place to roll out dough. <\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s also helpful to use these when working with small pieces, like when assembling components on an Arduino board. The lip provides a bit of a barrier when a screw or a capacitor tries to make a run for it. <\/li>\n<li>The tray is a perfectly reasonable work area, and is rigid. And, if you too have a small kitchen, you&#8217;ll appreciate the ability to quickly pick up the tray&#8217;s task and be able to get to an empty counter. Or shuffle it off to another counter entirely. <\/li>\n<li>It also means that you can take the entire surface to the sink, and scrub it there, rather than having to clean all the items and then the counter. <\/li>\n<li>I like trays that are smooth on top and bottom. Some trays have a texture on top and ridges on the bottom, to provide a better friction. I find that the texture makes moving things around on the tray a bit more difficult, and the ridges on the bottom keep them from being a good sled when it snows. I like the faux wood grain as well, as it blends in with my other cutting boards, but they come in all sorts of colors to suit your aesthetic. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And, of course, these are really helpful when you are moving dishes and food from the kitchen to another part of the house! <\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portable work surface<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1450],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23246,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23244\/revisions\/23246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}