A fridge temperature check sheet is judged by what happens when a reading is out of limit, and the sheet that works has the limit printed on it and a column for the action. 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. Each check is a reading, a time and initials; a reading above the limit gets the action taken, and the recheck. The danger zone temperature log planner on this site prints the sheet sized to your fridges and checks per day, free and without an account.
The columns
Fridge, reading, time, initials, in limit or not, action taken, recheck reading and time. The last three columns are blank on most days and are the reason the sheet exists on the day they are not; a sheet without them records the miss and not the fix.
The limit on the sheet
The top of the danger zone from the FSA guidance cited below is the line cold storage must stay below, and printing it on the sheet means the person checking judges the reading on the spot. A sheet that makes them look it up is a sheet where the judgement is skipped.
The action column
What the plan says to do: move the food, adjust the fridge, call the engineer, discard what has been above the limit for longer than the plan allows. Written in the plan in advance and recorded on the sheet when taken, with the recheck that shows it worked.
Sizing and keeping
The planner takes the fridge count and the checks per day and prints the rows for the month. ProbeLedger Pro keeps the readings and the actions against each fridge, so a fridge that drifts shows as a pattern. 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 fridge temperature check sheet
What if the fridge reads over the limit at opening?
The plan's corrective action: check the food's temperature and time above limit, decide, record, recheck the fridge.
Do I record the freezer on the same sheet?
A separate line per appliance; the planner prints freezers alongside fridges.
Is the sheet free?
Yes, without an account.