Logging cooking and reheating (including Scotland's 82°C rule)
Cooking and reheating temperatures are recorded by dish, not by appliance, whenever you're cooking or reheating something. Rated5 applies the correct threshold for your nation automatically.
Start a cook or reheat log
From Today, log the reading against the dish you're cooking or reheating (for example "chicken curry") rather than against an appliance.
Enter the core temperature
Take the reading at the thickest part of the food and enter it. That's the whole entry: no appliance link is needed for this reading type.
Rated5 checks it against the right threshold
For cooking, the target is 75°C core, or 70°C held for 2 minutes as an alternative, the same across all four UK nations. For reheating, England, Wales and Northern Ireland use the same 75°C threshold. Scotland's reheat threshold is 82°C core. Rated5 applies the correct threshold for your premises' nation automatically.
A danger reading is recorded, not necessarily escalated
Unlike a storage reading, a cook or reheat reading in the danger zone doesn't automatically open a corrective action for most premises; it's simply recorded. The only exception is a premises running the optional HACCP module with that specific dish linked to a monitored control point, in which case a corrective action opens the same way a storage breach does.
More on how cook and reheat readings fit into temperature logging generally.
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