Danger zone temperature UK is the FSA's figure. 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. 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. Storage below, cooking and holding above, cooling through within the time: three records show it. The danger zone temperature log planner on this site prints them sized to the kitchen, free and without an account.
Storage
Fridges below the zone's lower figure, read and recorded on the plan's schedule, with the action when a reading is over and the recheck. The plan's own target sits below the limit so normal fluctuation stays inside it; the sheet carries the limit so the judgement is made at the fridge.
Cooking and holding
Cooking to the standard takes the food out of the zone; hot holding keeps it above the upper figure through service. Both are probed at the thickest part and recorded with the time and initials on the hot food temperature check on this site, which carries the standard on the sheet.
Cooling
Leftovers into the fridge within the FSA's two hours, the start and finish recorded with the result. It is the passage back through the zone, the record most kitchens do not keep, and the one an inspector asks about when the menu has cooked-and-cooled items.
The records
Kept every day, read for drift. ProbeLedger Pro keeps them; 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 temperature uk
Is the zone different in Scotland?
The FSA guidance cited here applies in England, Wales and Northern Ireland; Food Standards Scotland gives its own; the figures agree.
What about a hot cupboard?
Hot holding: above the zone's upper figure, probed and recorded.
Is the planner free?
Yes, without an account.