Holding Food

A steam table holding hot soup has broken down. The soup has been unheated for 3 hours. What must be done with the soup?

• Reheat the soup to 135˚F and transfer it to a working steam table

• Fix the steam table immediately and allow it to reheat the soup

• Discard soup; heat new batch to 135˚F; place it in a working steam table

• Combine cooled soup and freshly made soup; place it in working steam table

The cook puts refrigerated lasagna into the steam table at 9:00 am for service at noon. This practice is incorrect because:

• Steam table is to be used for holding correctly heated food

• Food should be cooked to at least 120F before being put into the steam table

• Lasagna will burn if left for 3 hours in the steam table

• Temperature of the food was not taken before being put into the steam table

Which of these options is being held safely?

• Chicken soup held at 120F

• Pasta salad held at 39F

• Cold sesame cucumber noodles held at 79F

• Wonton Soup held in hot holding unit at 35F

When labeling cold food, what must be done once it is removed from refrigeration? How many hours must pass in order to discard the food?

• Label the time it was removed from refrigeration and the discard time; 4 hours

• Label the time it should be thrown out; 6 hours

• Just throw the food once it's done

• Label the time it was removed from refrigeration and the discard time; 6 hours

Are you allowed to use hot-holding equipment to reheat food? Why or why not?

• No, because hot-holding equipment is just for holding hot foods. You reheat food until its hot enough and then transfer the food to the hot holding equipment

• No, because hot-holding equipment is designed to keep the food warm. You must reheat the food correctly and then transfer the food to the hot holding equipment

• Yes, because the hot-holding equipment is designed to reheat the food. There's no need to do extra work when the machine does it for you.

• Yes, because you can just easily get freshly made food and mix it with the old one and it'll just be hot again