Fridge Facts
The temperature recommended for freezing foods
What is 0 degrees. At temperatures above 0 degrees and below 32 degrees, foods degrade more quickly. Food will maintain integrity at -10 degrees, so err on the side of colder.
How you clean melons before cutting them.
What is: wash the outer surface with cool tap water to remove dirt. Scrub melon with a clean brush under running water (or a cloth if you don't have a brush). Dry with a clean cloth or paper towel. Using soap or detergent is not recommended.
If you are sick, you should do this so you do not get other sick.
What is stay home and/or not cook food for others and/or wash your hands often?
The foods you always keep separated to avoid cross contamination.
What is raw meat and anything you aren't going to cook.
Once soap has been applied, how long should hands and arms be scrubbed?
What is at least 20 seconds.
The temperature refrigerators should be set (and held).
What is between 35 and 38 degrees F?
List three times you should wash your hands while cooking.
When you start cooking. After you go to the bathroom. If you handle pets. If you handle money. If you touch your hair, cough or sneeze. If you touch raw meat or other food. If they are visibly dirty.
The maximum time that left over, cooked chicken can be left on the table during a potluck when the room temperature is 70 degrees
(before it's THROWN AWAY - not put back in the fridge).
What is 2 hours?
When thawing meat, place it o a plate on the ___________ shelf of the refrigerator.
What is the bottom shelf?
You should wash your hands with soap and water if you see this because hand sanitizer will not help.
Visible dirt on your hands.
The danger zone temperature range
What is 41 degrees to 135 degrees F?
Poultry should be washed before cooking it.
What is false?
Simply cooking out of date perishable food to high temperatures may not make them safe to eat because some bacteria produce these things that can make you sick.
What are toxins?
You do this because you cut carrots for the salad on the same cutting board as raw chicken.
What is throw out or cook the carrots?
Doing this can hide dirt and lead to physical contamination of food.
Painting nails or wearing fake nails.
The number of days is a left over casserole or an open pack of lunch meat, kept safety in the refrigerator, safe to eat.
What is 3 to 4?
The times when you clean and sanitize the kitchen counter.
What is before AND after you prepare food.
4 methods for safely thawing meat.
What are
1. In a refrigerator at 41 degrees or lower
2. Submerged under running water at least 70 degrees or lower
3. In a microwave oven if it will be cooked immediately after thawing
4. As part of the cooking process.
4 of the high allergy foods that we need to be mindful about when preparing foods for others.
What are (name 4): milk, soy, eggs, wheat, fish, crustacean/shellfish, peanuts, tree nuts.
This does not kill norovirus on your hands.
What is hand sanitizer? Alcohol does not kill norovirus. You must wash your hands with soap and hot water for 20 seconds.
The depth of the container in which you should cool soup or a casserole.
What is 2 inches deep.
It would take an 8-inch stock pot of steaming chicken soup 24 HOURS to cool to a safe temperature in your refrigerator. To be safe: To speed cooling, transfer soup to shallow containers, making sure soup is no more than TWO inches deep.
What is the difference between cleaning and sanitizing?
Cleaning removes the dirt and food from surfaces.
Sanitizing reduces the pathogens on a surface to safe levels.
Three of the six conditions that favor the growth of bacteria.
What are (name 3)
Acidity - contains little or no acid.
Temperature - 41 degrees to 135 degrees
Time - in the temperature zone
oxygen - may or may not be needed
moisture - need moisture in the food to grow.
3 ways to cooking safe hamburgers on the grill, from bringing raw hamburger patties to the grill through getting them to the table safely cooked.
What is:
Wash hands after putting patties on grill.
Wash all utensils well or get clean utensils after putting patties on grill.
Get a clean plate after putting patties on grill.
Cook to 160 degrees, until juices run clear.
To properly sanitize your hands with sanitizer you need to do this (name at least 2)
What is:
Make sure the sanitizer is at least 60% alcohol
Put an entire squirt of sanitizer on your hands
Rub the front and back of both hands, wrists and between your fingers
Rub until completely dry