ServSafe Chapter Five
What is the problem with storing raw ground beef above prepped salads?
Cross contamination
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.
What is the best method of checking the temp of a delivery of fresh fish?
Insert a thermometer probe into the thickest part of the fish.
What is the most important factor in choosing a food supplier?
It has been inspected and complies with local, state and federal laws.
Milk can be received at 45 degrees under what conditions?
It is cooled to 41 degrees or lower in 4 hours.
What is required when receiving fish that will be served raw or partially cooked?
It must be correctly frozen before you receive it.
In top to bottom order, how should a fresh pork roast, fresh salmon, a container of lettuce, and a pan of fresh chicken breasts be stored in a cooler?
Lettuce Fresh salmon Fresh pork roast Fresh chicken breasts
Put the following in shelf order top to bottom: Whole meat, whole chicken, pecan pie, raw ground beef, raw fish.
Pecan pie Raw fish Whole meat Raw ground beef Whole chicken
Reject or Accept: Bag of flour that is dry but has a watermark on it.
Reject
Reject or Accept: Can of red kidney beans with a small dent on one side of the can.
Reject
Reject or Accept: Chicken received at an internal temp of 50 degrees.
Reject
Reject or Accept: Frozen meat with large ice crystals on the packaging.
Reject
Reject or Accept: Live oysters without shell stock id tags
Reject
Reject or Accept: Milk received at 50 degrees.
Reject
Reject or Accept: Mozzarella cheese with small spots of mold.
Reject
Reject or Accept: Vacuum packed bacon with the seal broke but no other obvious damage
Reject
What must be included on the label of TCS food when prepared in house?
The date the food should be thrown out.
What storage mistakes were made at the operation?
The freezer door was left open,overstuffed the fridge, put raw food above ready to eat food, the temps should have been spot checked, hot food should not be in the freezer, and the foil should not line the fridge.
What receiving mistakes did Alyce make?
The shrimp should have been rejected because of the ice crystals. She did not clean and sanitize the probe she had to measure the temperature of the ground beef and the fish. The salmon should have been rejected, the sour cream temp should be checked, the pasta should have been rejected, and the cold food should have been placed on the side.
Frozen shrimp is rejected during receiving large ice crystals on the food and packaging. What problem caused this?
Time temperature abuse
Unsafe practices in the following picture: (pg 5.12)
-Chemicals stored with food -Food on the floor -Boxes of food are not labeled -Spilled food that has not been cleaned up -Cooler door is open -The cooler is packed and unlabeled
What is the correct temp for receiving cold TCS food?
41 degrees or lower
How long can TCS food the was prepared in house be stored?
7 days
Reject or Accept: Fresh salmon with the flesh that springs back when it is touched.
Accept
Reject or Accept: Shell eggs recieved at an air temp of 45 degrees.
Accept
How many inches from the floor should food be stored?
At least 6 inches.
