Food Safety Course

[AlphaPapa]

Can someone recommend a good food safety course that my wife and I can take? Ideally, it would be free, but it doesn’t have to be. I expect it will probably be online. However, I wouldn’t mind a face-to-face class. One of my band mates used to teach a ServSafe course at the local tech school and I wouldn’t mind going that route. However, he said they quit offering it. We are not looking for any type of certification, just the knowledge.

 

[Jim6820]

Can’t recommend a specific course, but check with your local health department for “food handler” training. Additionally, check with your local junior college system to see if it has a culinary arts program; many do.

 

[C. Keeper]

Can someone recommend a good food safety course that my wife and I can take? Ideally, it would be free, but it doesn’t have to be. I expect it will probably be online. However, I wouldn’t mind a face-to-face class. One of my band mates used to teach a ServSafe course at the local tech school and I wouldn’t mind going that route. However, he said they quit offering it. We are not looking for any type of certification, just the knowledge.

Here ya go!

 

[AlphaPapa]

Here ya go!

Yes, this the same one I found. The key was getting the “food handler” term @Jim6820 mentioned. I had not heard that one before.

 

[Jim6820]

Yes, this the same one I found. The key was getting the “food handler” term @Jim6820 mentioned. I had not heard that one before.

I only knew the term because a few years back, I had to get a “food handler permit” in order to work in a charity event.

 

[SmokeOCD]

Search sanitation certificate you may find more options. Used to do fairs and festivals, it was a requirement but you can learn it all on the internet for free.

 

[C. Keeper]

 

[Jim6820]

Search sanitation certificate you may find more options. Used to do fairs and festivals, it was a requirement but you can learn it all on the internet for free.

At least in my state (Washington), “sanitation certificate” refers to products and processing equipment rather than a more general “food safety” centered on cooking and handling procedures. YMMV

 

[Greg Jones]

At least in my state (Washington), “sanitation certificate” refers to products and processing equipment rather than a more general “food safety” centered on cooking and handling procedures. YMMV

Y’all just do things differently on the left coast! I’d expect that anyone certified on cooking and handling procedures would have the products and processing equipment thing figured out, but what do I know? But then we used to butcher chickens, hogs, and cattle out on the back forty. And drink raw milk. In all seriousness, it’s an interesting topic! I hope @AlphaPapa reports back on what he decided to do.

 

[Pacman]

In Kommiefornia, everyone that touches a plate of food has to take some sort of food safety course. My daughter had to take an online course many years ago even for a high school part time job being a "runner" delivering food from the pickup window to tables. As mentioned, at least here, the county health departments dictate the rules. It's part of their audits when they grade restaurants, food stores, food trucks, et al, for the establishment's "Dirty Dining" ranking.

 

[AlphaPapa]

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Already done that! It’s part of the reason I want to take the course. I’d also like to have a fact-based comeback to my wife’s “this is what my mother used to do” line. I remember my mother thawing ground beef in the sink by running water over it until it was soft. I gave myself food poisoning about 30 years ago from doing that one, too!

 

[AlphaPapa]

Y’all just do things differently on the left coast! I’d expect that anyone certified on cooking and handling procedures would have the products and processing equipment thing figured out, but what do I know? But then we used to butcher chickens, hogs, and cattle out on the back forty. And drink raw milk. In all seriousness, it’s an interesting topic! I hope @AlphaPapa reports back on what he decided to do.

Will do.

 

[SmokeOCD]

At least in my state (Washington), “sanitation certificate” refers to products and processing equipment rather than a more general “food safety” centered on cooking and handling procedures. YMMV

That's the cert needed to sell/vend food and get past the health inspectors in Illinois.
It was just an additional search term to possibly broaden results/options.