What do you need to know?
• You must reheat food safely so that it does not stay in the temperature danger zone (5°C–60°C).
• If you don’t reheat food correctly, bugs will grow and make your food unsafe and unsuitable.
• Vending machines must reheat food safely.
• Bain-maries and hot cabinets do not reheat food. They keep food warm once it has been cooked or reheated.
What do you need to do?
• Use the right equipment to reheat food quickly:
(tick as appropriate)
microwave
stovetop
oven
other ___________________________________
• Reheat food until steaming hot (at least 75°C) in the coolest part (if a liquid) or the middle (if solid) and keep it above 60°C until it is used.
• Reheated food that is held between 5°C and 60°C, can be reheated again to above 75°C and served hot (above 60°C) within 4 hours, otherwise it must be thrown out.
• Vending machines that reheat food must reheat it to at least 75°C in the coolest part and keep the food above 60°C until it is used.
What do you need to show?
• Show your verifier:
◦◦ how you safely reheat food to above 75°C,
◦◦ how you know the food you reheated was above 75°C,
◦◦ how you know your vending machine reheats food safely.
