Window From Kitchen To Living Room
Does English have a specific word for a hole between the kitchen and the living room that is used to get food directly to the dining table?
German has the nice Durchreiche, which approximately translates to hand-through. I am ideally looking for a nice translation of that word.
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It is also called a serving hatch.
An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items.
The cook passed the dishes through the serving hatch.
from Wiktionary
answered Mar 12 '11 at 21:10
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answered Mar 12 '11 at 20:45
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Or just "pass-through". Google [ define pass-through ] gives: "an opening that resembles a window between two rooms (especially a shelved opening between a kitchen and dining room that is used to pass dishes)", citing WordNet.
Oct 1 '12 at 14:30
In restaurants, I've heard that area is referred to as the pass and that is what we call it in our house.
answered Mar 13 '11 at 2:08
I've known it to be called a breakfast-bar.
A similar feature is a dumb-waiter, which is used to move crockery and food between different levels especially in hotels.
answered Mar 12 '11 at 22:47
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@Ralph: It looks like some serving hatches can double as breakfast bars, including the one pictured above. It's set with place mats and I think it shows the top of a stool.
Mar 13 '11 at 14:17
In French, it is known as a passe-plat, which is elegant and simple. It can also be translated simply as hatch, which might be better than serving hatch as any sentence employing it is likely to involve a serving context which would make it redundant.
answered Mar 13 '11 at 0:41
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Very nice, thanks for this! This question is in the context of a software naming decision and
passe-platis an interesting option.Mar 13 '11 at 14:34
Not meaning to observe the obvious, but "service window" would be appropriate.
answered Sep 28 '12 at 22:13
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Window From Kitchen To Living Room
Source: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/16120/is-there-a-more-fancy-name-for-a-kitchen-hole
What, "kitchen hole" isn't fancy enough for you? Some people are so hard to please.
Mar 12 '11 at 20:51
@Robusto it contrasts nicely with Car hole :)
Mar 12 '11 at 20:53
I clicked this question wondering what in the world a "kitchen hole" could be.
Mar 12 '11 at 21:38
@intuited, you might have to explain that one in some contexts. I (native en-gb speaker) understand "pie-hole" and "cake-hole" as "mouth", most commonly encountered following the words "Shut your".
Mar 13 '11 at 14:32
We just called ours a hatch.
Mar 23 '11 at 0:32