Storage
This is what FIFO stands for.
What is First In First Out?
This is what ROP stands for.
What is Reduced Oxygen Packaged?
This is a way of gradually thawing frozen food to prep it for deep frying.
What is slacking?
This process of partially cooking food during prep to finish cooking to service.
What is Parcooking?
An air temperature measuring device used to measure the temperature in a cooler must be accurate to + or - this amount of degrees.
What is 3°F?
Ready-to-eat TCS food must be date marked if it will be stored for longer than this many hours.
What is 24 hours?
Food should be stored this far off the floor.
What is 6 inches?
These are the four methods for thawing food.
What is refrigeration, running water, microwave, and cooking?
The only way to reduce pathogens in food to safe levels is to cook it to this.
What is the minimum internal temperature?
This should be done regularly to help keep frozen food safe in a freezer.
What is defrosting the freezer?
When combining foods with different use-by dates in a dish, the discard dish should be based on this date.
What is the earliest use by date of any of the food items used?
Meat should be held at this temperature.
What is 41°F?
Eggs that are cracked open and combined in a common container are called this.
What is pooled eggs?
When cooling food the food must be cooled from 135°F to 70°F within this may hours.
What is 2 hours?
Cleaning and sanitizing prep tables between uses prevents this.
What is cross-contamination?
The maximum amount of time that ready to eat TCS food can be stored in the cooler at 41°F before it must be sold/served or thrown out is this long.
What is 7 days?
This is the order that foods should be stored from top to bottom. (Know all 5)
What is 1. Ready to eat food, 2. Seafood, 3. Whole cuts of beef and pork, 4. Ground meat and ground fish, and 5. Whole and ground poultry?
This document issued by your regulatory authority that allows a regulatory requirement to be waived or changed.
What is a variance?
When cooling food the food must be cooled from 70°F to 41°F within this may hours.
What is 4 hours?
The maximum water temperature used when thawing ROP fish under running water.
What is 70°F?
This is the temperature that hot TCS food must be held at to keep it safe.
What is 135°F?
You can store whole citrus fruits, hard-rind squash, eggplant, and root vegetables at this temperature in a cool dry storage area.
What is 60 - 70°F?
These are the two biggest hazards when prepping food.
What are cross-contamination and time-temperature abuse?
This is the temperature that TCS food must be reheated to before hot holding.
What is 165°F?
This must be done immediately after thawing food in a microwave.
What is cook it?