Food Safety Atlas

Proving the thermometer is right

Step 1 of 5

Check at the ice point

What happens

Probe tip in an at 0 °C, touching nothing. Let the reading settle and record it.

Good looks like

The slurry is ice with a little water, not water with some ice.

How it goes wrong

The reading is written down before it has settled.

Who
Technical

Reference point 0 °C. Record to 0.1 °C, with the instrument id, time and operator.

Point method, cold end