Units¶
Everything in your kitchen that holds food at a temperature, and the range each one is supposed to stay in.
Where: menu → Food Safety → Setup → Units.
A unit is a physical thing you check: a fridge, a freezer, a bain-marie, a chilled display. Once a unit is here it shows up wherever a temperature gets written down — the cold storage log, a manual check, and a probe if you have one fitted.
Empty to begin with: "No units configured. Add your first unit."
Adding one¶
Add Unit asks for four things.
| Field | What it decides |
|---|---|
| Unit Name | What staff see on the check list. "e.g., Main Fridge" |
| Type | Fridge, Freezer, Hot Hold, Display or Other. Picking one fills in the range below. |
| Min Temp (°C) and Max Temp (°C) | The range. Outside it is a fail. |
| Location (optional) | Where it is. "e.g., Kitchen, Back room" |
Choosing a Type fills the two temperatures with the usual range for that kind of unit:
| Type | Fills in |
|---|---|
| Fridge | 0 °C to 4 °C |
| Freezer | -25 °C to -15 °C |
| Hot Hold | 60 °C to 75 °C |
| Display | 2 °C to 6 °C |
| Other | 0 °C to 10 °C |
These are a starting point, not a rule. Type over them with whatever your own food control plan says. The app judges a reading against the numbers on the unit, so those are the numbers that matter.
At Little Kite the three units are the Walk-in chiller (0 to 4, Kitchen), the Under-bench fridge (0 to 5, Pass) and the Chest freezer (-22 to -15, Store room). The under-bench runs a degree warmer than the walk-in on purpose — it is opened all service, and holding it to the walk-in's range would fail it every lunchtime for nothing.
Name them the way staff say them¶
The name is what somebody reads at seven in the morning with a probe in one hand. "Walk-in" beats "Refrigerator 1". If your team already calls it the cool room, call it the cool room here, and put the formal name in Site rules so the form builder knows they are the same thing.
Changing or removing one¶
Tap a unit to edit it. Delete asks to confirm.
Records already filed keep the readings they were filed with. Renaming a unit, moving its range or deleting it does not reach back into your book — what was written down stays written down. That is what makes the record worth keeping.
Deleting a unit does take it off future checks, so a fridge you have stopped using is worth deleting rather than leaving on the list for somebody to keep dutifully filling in.
Good to know¶
- A unit with no range set is not checked against anything. Both numbers have to be there for a reading to pass or fail.
- Freezer ranges are negative. -15 is warmer than -25, so the min is the colder number. The defaults get this right; typing your own is where it goes wrong.
- Units are per shop. Two shops keep their own lists.