FH Chapter 5 - Cleaning & Sanitizing Quiz

Which of the following is false?

• Close the lids on outdoor garbage containers.

• Clean the inside and outside of garbage containers often.

• Remove garbage from prep areas as quickly as possible.

• Clean garbage containers near prep or food-storage areas.

Where should garbage cans be cleaned?

• In food storage areas

• In dishwashing areas

• Away from food and utensils

• Next to food-prep areas

What is the correct way to clean and sanitize a prep table?

• Remove food from the surface, sanitize, rinse, wash, air-dry

• Remove food from the surface, wash, sanitize, air-dry, rinse

• Remove food from the surface, air-dry, wash, rinse, sanitize

• Remove food from the surface, wash, rinse, sanitize, air-dry

Jim was washing dishes in a dishwasher. What step did he do wrong?

• Presoaked items with dried-on food

• Checked for dirty items and rewashed them

• Used a towel to dry the dishes

• Loaded the racks so the water spray reached all surfaces

A food handler is using a nylon scrub pad to remove dirt from pots and pans in the first compartment of a three-compartment sink. What is the food handler doing?

• Sterilizing

• Sanitizing

• Rinsing

• Cleaning

After scraping and washing, what is the third step in cleaning and sanitizing a prep table?

• Sanitizing

• Rinsing

• Air-drying

• Rewashing

What is sanitizing?

• Reducing dirt from a surface

• Reducing the pH of a surface

• Reducing pathogens to safe levels

• Reducing the hardness of water

A food-contact surface must be cleaned and sanitized:

• At the end of the food handler’s shift

• Every 6 hours

• Before working with a different type of food

• Only if the food handler changes gloves

What is cleaning?

• Reducing the pH of a surface

• Reducing dirt from a surface

• Reducing the hardness of water

• Reducing pathogens to safe levels

The first step in cleaning and sanitizing items in a three-compartment sink is:

• Air-drying items

• Washing items in detergent

• Immersing items in sanitizer

• Rinsing, scraping, or soaking items