Decide what will be cooled
Identify food to be kept as it comes off the heat, with the item, the batch and the method.
is decided when the cooking is planned, and only food that can be cooled in time is cooled.
A pan of rice is left on the stove to cool through the afternoon.
Food is cooled once, straight from cooking, and never from a buffet or display. The operating model decides what is owed: readings per stage, readings per batch on named equipment, or a method.