It$$s all about the Time and Temps....

The staff had another busy day ahead at the Sunnydale Assisted living facility.

Taking and checking temperatures was standard practice; after all they were

dealing with the elderly and a highly susceptible population so making sure

proper procedures were followed was essential to the safety of the residents.

As the day started, Marla was busy with breakfast. Today$$s special was scrambled

eggs and she was making the first batch to go onto the steam table. Since they

would be held for service, Marla wanted to get them up to $1.$

$(135$F $145$F $155$F $165$F$)$ Prior to starting the eggs she placed a sheet pan of

pork sausage patties into the oven. When the timer buzzed, she was sure to

check the temperature of the patties at $2.(145$F $155$F $165$F $$

$170$F$)$

Meanwhile Caesar and Tina were getting things ready for today$$s barbeque$-$

themed lunch. The menu would include choice of potato salad or coleslaw, baked

beans, grilled hamburgers and turkey burgers. There had also been some

macaroni salad from the previous week but since it could not be used since it had

been opened more than $3.(3$ days $5$ days $7$ days $10$ days$)$

The salads were pre$-$prepared purchased items so they would need to be held at

$4.(32$F $41$F $50$F $70$ F$)$ The salads could be held without

temperature control up to $5.(1$ hour $2$ hours $4$ hours $6$

hours$)$ However, they needed to be sure the temperature of the cold salads did

not exceed $6.(41$F $50$F $60$F $70$F$)$ during that time. Once the

baked beans were heated to $7.(125$F $-135$F $145165$F$)$ could

be kept for up to $8.(1$ hour $2$ hours $4$ hours $6$ hours$)$ The

beef hamburgers needed to reach $9.(145$F $150$F $155$F $165$F$)$

The turkey burgers needed to reach $10.(145$F $155$F $165$F $$

$170$F$)$

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Later in the day Randall came in for his dinner shift. Looking in the freezer,

Randall had realized that he had forgotten to thaw the chicken breasts he had

planned to serve for dinner. Moving quickly, he placed the frozen chicken in a

prep sink to thaw and turned on the water. The water needed to not exceed

$11.(55$F $65$F $70$F $75$F$)$ The temperature of the chicken

could not rise above $12.(41$F $50$F $70$F $125$F$)$ for longer than

$13.(30$ minutes $1$ hour $2$ hours $4$ hours$)($This includes the

time it takes to thaw the food plus the time to prep or cool it$.)$ While waiting for

the chicken to thaw he grabbed a leftover pan of beef noodle soup from the

cooler and placed it on the stove to heat up before transferring it to the steam

table. Randall will need to heat the soup to $14.(125$ F $135$F $$

$145$F $165$F$)$ Randall knew that once it was moved to the steam table it would

need to maintain a temperature of $15.(125$ F $-135$F $140$F $$

$165$F$)$ Once the chicken was thawed Randall would need to make sure the baked

chicken breasts reached an internal temperature of $16.(135$F $-$

$145$F $155$F $165$F$)$ Dinner$$s second choice was fried perch which would be made

in small batches. Randall would need to check the temperature of each batch and

make sure was at least $17.(145$F $155$F $165$F $170$F$)$ Gino

helped with serving during the dinner shift but sometimes helped with food

preparation. Since there was quite a bit of thawed leftover ground turkey from

the barbeque that had not been removed from the refrigerator, Gino thought he

would help out by making a batch of turkey sloppy joes that could be used the

next day for lunch. Gino carefully followed the standardized recipe and cooked

the turkey sloppy joes to its proper internal temperature of $165\backslash$deg F$.$ All that was

left to do was cool the item properly. Gino wanted to use an ice bath to get the

temperature down quickly. He planned on following the $2-$stage method for

cooling and needed the item to reach $18.(45$F $50$F $70$F $$

$125$F$)$ within $19.(1$ hour $2$ hours $4$ hours $6$ hours$)$ Once it

reached that proper temperature, he would have another $20.(1$

hour $2$ hours $-3$ hours $4$ hours$)$ to reach $41\backslash$deg F