Fridge temperatures¶
Walk the kitchen with a probe, write down what each fridge is reading, and say what you did about anything that was wrong.
Where: menu → Food Safety → Forms → Fridge temperatures (by hand) → Fill. It is a form like any other, so you can put it on a schedule and it shows on Today when it is due.
A new shop starts with two fridges, Fridge 1 and Fridge 2. Rename them, add your freezers and set each one's safe range in Setup → Units. With no fridges at all, the form asks you to add them first.
Menu → Temperature is for sensors. If you have none, it says what they would do for you. See Automatic monitoring.
Filling it in¶
One fridge to a page, in the order you walk them. Each page shows the fridge's name, its safe range and when it was last checked.
- Type the temperature, or tap Speak and say it: "3 degrees", "minus 18". Check the number, it is what goes on the record.
- Add a note if there is something worth saying.
- Save and next. On the last fridge it is Save and finish.
Back returns to the fridge before. Skip this one moves past a fridge without recording anything. Use it for a freezer you genuinely cannot reach, not for one that looks fine.
The fridges not yet checked today come first. Checking again in the afternoon walks every fridge again.
The box always starts empty. It never fills in the last reading for you: a temperature on the record is one somebody took.
When a reading is out of range¶
The moment you type a temperature outside the fridge's range, the page shows Outside the safe range and asks What did you do?
It will not save until you pick one:
| Action | When |
|---|---|
| Rechecked | You read it again and it was fine |
| Adjusted Unit | You turned it down, closed a door, cleared a vent |
| Moved Food | The food went somewhere cold |
| Called Service | An engineer is coming |
| Discarded | The food was thrown out |
| Other | Say what in the notes |
A book full of temperatures proves you took them; a book that says what you did about the bad one proves you were running the kitchen. If you pick Rechecked, do the recheck: it is a second check on the record, not a way of clearing the first.
Where your checks go¶
Into the record book. Each walk-round is one record of Fridge temperatures (by hand), with a row for each fridge: the time, the temperature, its safe range, whether it was in range and what was done.
So they show in Records, in Reports and in what you send your verifier, beside your other forms. A walk-round with a reading out of range shows as a check that did not pass, the same as a failed form.
Checks taken before 31 October 2026 have been copied into the book too, with their original times and names.
Good to know¶
- The range comes from the fridge, not from the app. Whatever you set as Min and Max on the unit is what a reading is judged against.
- Checks are filed against whoever is signed in. If your shop asks for a PIN, the name on the record is the person who entered it.
- A check made with no signal is kept and sent when you are back on.
- To correct a check already saved, open it in Records and edit it there, like any record.