Ten Years of Culinary Excellence
Ten Years of Culinary Excellence
A food handler at a busy salad bar cuts her finger while prepping lettuce. She bandages it right away — good instinct — but skips the glove that's supposed to go over it. A few…
A prep cook slices up a few melons for a platter first thing in the morning, well ahead of that afternoon's event. It's just fruit — cut, arranged, ready to eat. No raw meat, no…
Bacteria get most of the attention in food safety, but they aren't the only threat on your prep line. This page covers the other biological hazards you need to understand: viruses, parasites, fungi, and biological…
A guest tells your server, "I can't have gluten." Another says, "I'm allergic to peanuts." A third says, "Dairy doesn't agree with me." All three sound like the same kind of request — avoid an…
A cook checks a batch of chicken thighs with the kitchen's bimetallic thermometer. 165°F. Safe. Onto the plate they go. What nobody mentions is that the same thermometer got knocked off the prep table that…
You’re about to spend the next several weeks learning hundreds of rules: temperatures, timings, storage orders, cleaning sequences. Before any of that, you probably have a question you WANT answered but are afraid to ask:…
A piece of broken glass in a salad, sanitizer sprayed near uncovered food, and norovirus carried into the kitchen by a sick employee are three very different problems. But all three are contamination hazards. ServSafe…
The soup was made at 8:30 that morning. By 11, it's in the soup well on the line, hot and ready for lunch. Then service starts. Nobody's really watching the soup anymore. It's hot. It's…
The truck backs up to the door at the worst possible time. It’s the middle of a lunch rush, you’re two prep cooks short, and the driver needs a signature now. Everyone in the kitchen…
The strawberries arrived frozen. The cases were intact. They came from an approved supplier, passed receiving, and went into storage. Three days later, the vendor contacts you. Those strawberries have been recalled. Nothing was necessarily…