Logging cooking and reheating (including Scotland's 82°C rule)
Cooking and reheating temperatures are recorded by dish, not by appliance, whenever you're cooking or reheating something. Rated5 applies the correct threshold for your nation automatically.
Start a cook or reheat log
From Today, log the reading against the dish you're cooking or reheating — for example "chicken curry" — rather than against an appliance.
Enter the core temperature
Take the reading at the thickest part of the food and enter it. That's the whole entry — no appliance link is needed for this reading type.
Rated5 checks it against the right threshold
For cooking, the target is 75°C core, or 70°C held for 2 minutes as an alternative — the same across all four UK nations. For reheating, England, Wales and Northern Ireland use the same 75°C threshold. Scotland's reheat threshold is 82°C core. Rated5 applies the correct threshold for your premises' nation automatically.
A danger reading is recorded, not necessarily escalated
Unlike a storage reading, a cook or reheat reading in the danger zone doesn't automatically open a corrective action for most premises — it's simply recorded. The only exception is a premises running the optional HACCP module with that specific dish linked to a monitored control point, in which case a corrective action opens the same way a storage breach does.
More on how cook and reheat readings fit into temperature logging generally.
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