Danger zone food is the food the danger zone applies to: anything that supports bacterial growth when it sits between the FSA's two figures. The Food Standards Agency's cooking-your-food guidance, cited below, gives the danger zone as between 8 and 63°C, where bacterial growth occurs, and says leftovers must be cooled and put in the fridge within two hours and eaten within 48 hours. Cooked meat and fish, dairy, cooked rice and pasta, prepared salads, sauces and stocks, anything cut or opened. The HACCP plan says which items are controlled and how, and the danger zone temperature log planner on this site prints the records, free and without an account.
Which foods
High-risk foods are the ones ready to eat that support growth: cooked meats, cooked rice, dairy, egg dishes, prepared salads, sauces. Raw meat and fish are controlled too, because they carry the bacteria that cooking must kill. The plan lists the kitchen's own.
At storage
Below the zone, checked and recorded on the plan's schedule, with the fridge's own target set under the limit so a door-opening does not breach it; a reading above the limit is the plan's corrective action, recorded with the recheck. The temperature log planner prints the fridge and freezer record sized to the appliances.
At cooking and holding
The same guidance gives the cooking standard as 70°C for 2 minutes, or the equivalents it lists, 75°C for 30 seconds among them. Hot holding above the zone's upper figure, probed and recorded. The hot food temperature check on this site is the record for both.
At cooling
The passage back through the zone, limited by the FSA's two hours for leftovers into the fridge. The cooling record shows it was met. ProbeLedger Pro keeps all of these; the planner prints them. FoodDocs lists its Lite plan at $99 per site per month billed monthly or $79 billed annually, and its Standard plan at $199 per site per month, with a free 14-day trial, on its pricing page cited below. ProbeLedger Pro is $49 per month for the whole site.
Questions people ask about danger zone food
Is bread a danger zone food?
Plain bread does not support growth in the same way; filled or buttered it does. The plan decides per item.
What about food that has been in the zone too long?
The plan's corrective action, usually discard, recorded.
Is the planner free?
Yes, without an account.