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Walk-in

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

/ˈwɔːk ɪn/nounCommon term

In culinary arts & cooking, walk-in means: A large refrigerated room that staff can walk into, used to store bulk food. Short for walk-in fridge, cooler or freezer.

In Turkish: soğuk oda, walk-in soğutucu

How it is used

Kitchens say put it in the walk-in or grab it from the walk-in. Storage follows strict rules: raw below cooked, everything covered, labelled and dated, FIFO. Temperatures are checked and logged daily.

Example sentences

  1. The fish delivery goes straight into the walk-in.

  2. Can you organise the walk-in? I can't find anything in there.

Common collocations

  • walk-in fridge
  • walk-in freezer
  • in the walk-in
  • walk-in temperature
  • FIFOFirst in, first out: a stock rotation rule that older stock is used before newer deliveries, so that food does not go out of date.
  • use-by dateThe date on a food label after which the food should not be eaten, cooked or served for safety reasons, even if it looks and smells fine.
  • blast chillerA refrigerator that cools hot cooked food very quickly with strong cold air, so it passes through the danger zone in a short, controlled time.
  • dry goodsFood products that do not need refrigeration and are kept on shelves, such as flour, rice, pasta, sugar, pulses, spices and canned goods.

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