Chapter 7: The Flow of Food: Storage

Eggs should be stored at temperatures below _____.

45F

Due to an operation's space limits, ready to eat and uncooked food must be stored in the same cooler. How should food be stored, in top to bottom order?

According to the minimum internal cooking temperatures, with ready to eat food on the top shelf and poultry on the bottom

should be stored on the bottom shelf of a cooling unit (refrigerator)

Chicken wings

appropriate location for food storage

Clean, dry location

when must you discard spaghetti that was prepped on July 18

July 24

when must you discard tuna salad that was prepped on July 19

July 25

should be stored on the top shelf of a cooling unit (refrigerator)

Tomatoes

Reduced-Oxygen Packaged (ROP) Food

always store at 41F or lower

date marking

an essential for ready to eat, TCS foods that will be held longer than 24 hours in cooler

Storage Order (In Fridge)

from top shelf to bottom: - ready to eat foods - seafood - whole cuts of beef and pork - ground meats and ground fish - whole and ground poultry

foods stored on top shelf

ready to eat foods

First-In, First-Out (FIFO)

rotating foods, so the items with the earliest use by dare are used first

foods stored below ready to eat foods in fridge

seafood

When combining foods with different use by dates, which date should you use?

the soonest date; if they are the 8th and the 10th, the new overall use by date is the 8th

If a food is going to be kept for more than _______ __________ it needs to be date marked.

24 hours

Meat/ Poultry/ Fish/ Shellfish/ Milk should be stored at temperatures below ______.

41F

Ready-to-eat TCS foods can only be held for __________ _______ if it is held at 41F or lower.

7 days Ex: opened on the 1st, throw out on the 7th

How far from the floor should food be stored?

At least 6" (15 cm)

the problem with storing raw ground beef above prepped salads

Cross-contamination

must be included on the label of TCS food that was prepped in-house

Date that the food should be thrown out

When storing food using the FIFO method, where should the food with the earliest use-by-dates be stored?

In front of food with later use-by dates

The order for storing food in a cooling unit (refrigerator) is based on

The temperature foods need to be cooked to

where should dairy products be stored

away from door, in coldest part of cooler

Where in the cooler should dairy products be stored?

away from the door, in the coldest part of the cooler

the problem with storing raw ground turkey above raw ground pork

cross contamination

foods stored on bottom shelf

shell eggs