How to Set Up Cooked Food Temperature Checks

Date modified: 1st June 2025 | This article has been written by Pilla Founder, Liam Jones, click to email Liam directly, he reads every email. Or book a demo to see how hospitality businesses use Pilla to manage food safety.

TLDR: About Safe Cooking Temperatures 

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  It's important that foods are cooked to a time and temperature combination that has been scientifically proven to reduce bacteria to a safe level for human to eat. Cooking food to the appropriate temperature for a sufficient time period eliminates harmful bacteria and makes sure food is safe.

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  The following time and temperature combinations have been scientifically proven to reduce bacteria to a safe level:
  80°c for 6 seconds
  75°c for 30 seconds
  70°c for 2 minutes

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  You should record the temperature of five cooked foods every day. Pilla has a pre-built cooked food temperature check inside which includes all of the inputs for staff to record compliant checks.The check will record all of the required information including the food item, the food temperature, the date/time and the person who recorded the reheated food each time.

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  If anything goes wrong, highlight the issue using the using 'Issue' button and follow the corrective actions below. Record everything that you do as a post inside the cooked food temperature check so you are create a full digital paper-trail of compliance.

Demo: Setting up Cooked Food Temperature Checks in Pilla

1. •Click the '+' button underneath any day on the planner to create a new activity and use these settings:
   - Name: Cooked Temperatures
   - Site: Select the appropriate venue
   - Team: Choose the team who will carry out the checks
   - Start: Set the start time to be the first time you want the checks to be carried out (this should be a future date and time)
   - Finish: Set the date and time that the first checks should be finished by (this is the target finish time)
   - Frequency: Set to 'Daily' and select every day that you are open to cook food
   - Tag: Add the relevant Tag (most likely Kitchen Checks unless you've created another one)
2. •Click 'Create' to create the activity
3. •Click 'Add Check' and use the dropdown menu to select 'Cooked Temperatures'.
   You should add five of these so that your teams can record five cooked food temperatures each day. Name then 'Cooked Food 1, Cooked Food 2' and so on.
4. •You now have a recurring daily activity which will have your cooked food temperature checks inside. The activity will recreate itself one day in advance.