Nutrition

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Your little brother wants to help you make dinner. You tell him that he needs to wash his hands before he helps you handle food. He asks you how long he should wash his hands for. Your response?

20 seconds

For the past four hours, leftovers from your big holiday dinner have been sitting out in the kitchen for guests to eat. The leftovers include roasted chicken, fudge brownies, macaroni and cheese, dinner rolls and green bean casserole. Which foods are still safe to eat?

Dinner rolls and fudge brownies

You are cooking hamburgers on the grill for you and a bunch of friends. Since you do not have a food thermometer, what is the best way to determine that the hamburgers are safely cooked?

Doneness and safety can only be judged by temperature. There is no alternative to a food thermometer

Gary is making a chicken stir-fry for dinner. He had just started cooking the chicken breast and was working on chopping fresh vegetables when a friend invites him out to dinner. Gary decides that he can eat the chicken tomorrow and agrees to go out to dinner. He removes the partially cooked chicken from the stove top, stores the chicken in an airtight plastic container and places it in the refrigerator with plans to finish cooking tomorrow. He also places the chopped vegetables in an airtight plastic container and places them in the refrigerator to cook tomorrow. Identify the food safety violation(s) (if any).

Gary should discard the partially cooked chicken but can cook the vegetables tomorrow

You just made a quart of homemade chicken noodle soup to have for dinner this week. What is the best way to refrigerate the soup?

In several shallow containers

Mary works as a cook at a local hospital. She is cooking a large batch of meatloaf that will be refrigerated and reheated tomorrow for lunch. Mary takes the meatloaf out of the oven at 12 pm and lets it sit on the counter top to cool. At 6 pm, Mary places the cooled pan in the refrigerator. Mary's manager tells her that the meatloaf cannot be used because Mary did not follow the FDA Food Code's two-stage cooling method. Choose the statement below that best describes the two-stage cooling method.

In the two-stage cooling method, food must be cooled from 140° F (60° C) to 70° F (21° C) within two hours and to 41° F (5° C) or lower within four hours.

Casey is a manager of a local bakery-café. Casey enters the walk-in refrigerator to take inventory. She finds sliced deli meat packaged, dated and stored in the meat locker for use during today's lunch and dinner service. She sees frozen soups thawing in sealed containers on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator. She also notices raw chicken thawing directly above sliced tomatoes and prewashed salad greens. Identify the food safety hazard(s)?

Meat, poultry and seafood should be thawed below fresh produce or ready prepared items to prevent juices from dripping on other foods

Kelly wants to defrost some frozen chicken for dinner tonight and it is already 4 pm. How should Kelly defrost the chicken?

Microwave the chicken

You baked a pumpkin pie and an apple pie on Thursday night to bring to a party on Saturday. The pies have been sitting on the counter covered in foil. Identify the food safety hazard(s) (if any).

The apple pie is safe to eat, however the pumpkin pie should have been refrigerated because it contains eggs and milk. Therefore, the pumpkin pie is not safe to eat

When you were helping make chocolate chip cookies, you ate a large spoonful of the raw cookie dough. The next day you were sick with diarrhea and stomach pain. Why do you think that you became sick?

The cookie dough contained raw eggs that may have Salmonella bacteria


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