Dish
Dish noun - A usually circular utensil for holding something (as food).
Usage example: we threw all of the ingredients for the salsa into a dish and mixed them together
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Tray is a synonym for dish in eating receptacle topic. In some cases you can use "Tray" instead a noun "Dish".
Tray
Tray noun - An open receptacle for holding or displaying or serving articles or food.
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One specific example is chef Jun Tanaka, who dropped his entire tray of frogs' legs on the floor during serving, but manage to salvage exactly four that stayed on the tray, meaning each dish had one frog leg on it.
Source: Series / Chopped - The cloche (serving tray cover) that Allen lifts off the judges' table to reveal the dish of the chef who's getting chopped in each round.
Source: Series / Chopped - Detroit has the coney dog (a hotdog topped with mustard, onion (usually raw and white) and all-beef chili), as well as its form of deep-dish pizza (different from Chicago in the layering of bread, sauce and cheese—it's less pie-like—and the square shape—from an industrial-parts tray!).
Source: Regional Speciality
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