It’s chilly

Chilling advice!

As it’s cold outside let’s keep with the theme and talk chilled food management.

So, what are the top 10 rules for safe management of chilled foods?

1. Your chilled food deliveries must be 8°C or less
2. Put chilled foods into storage within 20 minutes of it being delivered
3. Ensure your fridges maintain a temperature of 8°C or less (ideally 5°C or less)
4. Keep ready to eat foods stored above raw foods to avoid cross contamination
5. Keep clean/prepared salads and veg stored above dirty/unprepared salad and veg
6. Ensure all foods are date labelled
7. Ensure all foods are in date
8. Keep food covered
9. Thaw foods under controlled conditions in the fridge
10. Clean fridges daily including door handles.

Alert

If you are cooling cooked food for later use, it must be cooled to as low a temperature as possible within 90 minutes, then refrigerated.

Weekly Fun Fact

Did you know that the tallest snowman ever built measured 37.21m and was built in Maine, USA in 2008?  It was only a few feet shorter than the Statue of Liberty!