7th Grade Kitchen & Food Safety

While you were cooking, a grease fire started in a pan on the stove top. How could you safely put this fire out?

• Put water on it

• Quickly put a towel on it

• Cover it with the pan's lid and turn off burner

• Blow it out

Which of the following is microwave safe?

• Aluminum/Tin Foil

• Glass

• Metal

Always wash _________ separately.

• knives

• spoons

• forks

• spatulas

Handle of pots/pans should always be turned ____________.

• pointing out toward the kitchen

• toward the center or back of stove

The core four include steps of food safety are:

• clear, cook, separate and chill

• clean, transfer, chill and freeze

• cook, cross, freeze and separate

• clean, cook, separate and chill

One of the best ways to prevent foodborne illness is to wash hands and surfaces often.

• true

• false

Never let raw meat, poultry, eggs, cooked food or cut fresh fruits or vegetables sit at room temperature more than _________ before putting them in the refrigerator or freeze.

• 30 minutes

• 1 hour

• 2 hours

• 4 hours

If you cut up meat on a cutting board, you must wash it before cutting vegetables to prevent what?

• cleaning more later

• cross-contamination

• Dual-bacteriosis

• Transference

Which of the following is an NOT an example of cross contamination?

• forgetting to wash hands and then touching food

• not separating carrots and green peppers on a cutting board

• using the same knife to cut raw chicken as you use to cut lettuce

• using the same plate to carry raw hamburgers as you did to carry the cooked hamburgers

Lifting a lid away from your face (like a shield) can help prevent a ________?

• Fall

• Burn

• Cut

• Shock