{"id":35350,"date":"2018-07-11T22:11:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T22:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=35350"},"modified":"2018-07-11T22:14:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T22:14:31","slug":"what-is-the-2-hour-4-hour-rule-for-food-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/what-is-the-2-hour-4-hour-rule-for-food-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the 2 hour, 4 hour rule for food safety?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Self-tutoring about food safety: the tutor brings up the 2 hour, 4 hour rule.<\/h2>\n<p>During summer, food safety might be apropos, for a couple of reasons:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>People often cook food for outdoors, and possibly large batches.<\/li>\n<li>The elevated temperature might cause more rapid spoilage.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>One rule I find interesting is the 2 hour, 4 hour rule, which refers to foods that are harmful to consume if they spoil. It focuses on time the food has spent between 5&#176;C and 60&#176;C, and assumes refrigeration temperature &#60; 5&#176;C.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color:red; outline-style:solid;outline-color:white;outline-offset:-5px;outline-width:2px;padding:3em 2em 1em 2em;font-size:150%;border-radius:5px;color:white;margin-bottom:1.5em\">\n<h1 style=\"color:inherit;text-align:center;background-color:inherit\">2 hour, 4 hour rule:<\/h1>\n<p style=\"display:block;margin:auto;text-align:center\">\n<ul>\n<li>0 to 2 hours: safe to use or refrigerate.<\/li>\n<li>2 to 4 hours: safe to use but too late to refrigerate.<\/li>\n<li>&#62; 4 hours: discard.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sahealth.sa.gov.au\/wps\/wcm\/connect\/3dd213804376220b92dcdfc9302c1003\/2+hour+4+hour+Rule+%28poster%29.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&#038;CACHEID=ROOTWORKSPACE-3dd213804376220b92dcdfc9302c1003-lGa44kg\">www.sahealth.sa.gov.au<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about food safety: the tutor brings up the 2 hour, 4 hour rule. During summer, food safety might be apropos, for a couple of reasons: People often cook food for outdoors, and possibly large batches. The elevated temperature might &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/what-is-the-2-hour-4-hour-rule-for-food-safety\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is the 2 hour, 4 hour rule for food safety?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1370],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35350"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35370,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35350\/revisions\/35370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}