15-20 seconds with warm running water and dry with clean paper towels
What is the proper way to wash your hands?
100
Killing germs with cooking and stopping their growth by keeping the food hot or cold.
What is Temperature Control
100
The temperature of food is between 41* and 140*, where bacteria grows quickly.
What is the Danger Zone?
100
Keeping the temperature warm enough to keep the germs from growing in food that is cooked and ready to serve.
What is Hot Holding?
100
Keeping cold food at 41* or colder.
What is Cold Holding?
200
Washing your hands after you go to the restroom, after you eat, after you blow your nose/cough/sneeze or after a smoking break
What is Double Hand Wash
200
Small piece of equipment that is visible when the door is opened, displaying 41* or less.
What is a Refrigerator Thermometer?
200
Containers made specifically to hold food.
What are Food Grade Containers?
200
140*
What temperature should hot food be kept at?
200
Cooling food down from 140* to 70* in two (2) hours or
from 70* to 41* in four (4) hours
What is cooking food quickly?
300
Cause food borne illnesses and food poisoning.
What are germs?
300
Fill a large cup with the top with crushed ice and water; after 30 seconds the thermometer dial should read 32*F
What is Calibrating a Food Thermometer
300
When germs from one food item are passed to another food item, usually raw food to ready-to-eat food.
What is Cross Contamination?
300
Food that is cooked and then cooled that needs to be heated again.
What is Reheating Food?
300
1. Pour hot food into shallow metal pans
2. Stir to speed up cooling time
3. (May place cold food into a larger container & cover it)
How to cool soft/thick foods?
400
1 gallon water and 1-3 teaspoons bleach
How do you make sanitizer?
400
Instrument for checking temperatures while cooking food to make sure that it gets done all the way inside.
What is a Probe Food Thermometer?
400
Plan ahead and use one of these methods to complete the task: refrigerator, cold, running water or microwave.
What is Thawing Foods?
400
Stirring food to keep the food on top hot and covering the pans to keep the heat in and the food warm enough.
What are the ways to help keep hot food hot?
400
Place hot thin soups & sauces in a metal pot/pan in the sink and fill to the level of the food with cold water and ice. Stir often to speed up the cooling process. The food must reach 41*
What is an Ice & Water Bath?
500
Moist, protein rich warm foods such as meat, fish, poultry, milk, refried beans, cooked rice, baked potatoes or cooked vegetables