cold rooms

Refrigerated storage spaces

Cold rooms are refrigerated spaces used for storing perishable goods at low temperatures.

Restaurants, florists, and medical facilities use cold rooms to preserve food, flowers, or biological samples.

The term also describes any room that stays uncomfortably cold: The north-facing bedrooms were always cold rooms in winter.

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Spaces housing water-heating equipment

steam rooms · saunas · kilns · hot boxes · ovens

purpose/function

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Enclosed areas for cigarettes

storage purpose

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Non-refrigerated food keeping

wine cellars · root cellars · pantries · larders

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G