Requirements (before you start)
Before Time & Temperature can be used on the Jolt app, you must have your products and food handling processes set up on the Jolt Web Portal.
Understand the concept of “target temperature.” In a food handling process, this is the temperature you need the food to reach in a given time interval to remain safe.
Understand the concept of a “step duration.” This is the time interval given during which a food must be heated, cooled, or held at a specific temperature during a food handling process.
Understand that in Time & Temperature different foods can be made available to the different processes so that people don’t use the wrong process when preparing a food.
Understand the two different types of methods:
Heat/Cool Method: Food is heated or cooled to a target temperature in a certain amount of time.
For a heat/cool method, a measurement may be taken any time during the step. If the target temperature is not reached prior to the expiration of the step duration, the food handling process will be flagged as “failed.”
Hold Method: Food is held above or below a certain temperature for a certain amount of time.
For a hold method, measurements may be taken any time during the hold period, although it is not required.
Temperatures taken outside the “measurement window” do not advance the process but are kept for reporting purposes.
A temperature must be taken near the end of the hold period during the “measurement window.” See Hold Processes below for the definition of a measurement window.
If a measurement is not taken during the measurement window, or a temperature target is not met during the hold period, the food handling process will be flagged as “failed.”
Keep in mind that Jolt Time & Temperature is not designed to tell you what to do with your food products. Its purpose is to gather temperature and time data so you can prove food was handled according to your process.
You’ll also need to get a list of all the products you will be tracking in Time & Temperature.
Keep in mind that if the customer has their departments set up as locations in Jolt, and they don’t want their products mingled, products should be entered in location mode for each department.
Configuring Food Handling Processes
Log onto the Jolt Web Portal in content group mode and navigate to Lists | Time & Temperature to display the Food Handling Processes.
Important Note: If you configure processes in content group mode, all of the locations will get the changes and remain in sync. If one location needs a process that other locations don’t need, you can switch to location mode and copy a content group process and make the changes.
If you are the first person to visit this page, click the Get Started button to create the default set of processes.
Important: There is no way to add a process from scratch, so you must use or copy and change the default processes.
Configure the processes you are going to use by adjusting the temperature and step duration.
For example, the Cool Down process has 3 steps:
Heat to safe cook temperature
Cool below 70° F in under 2 hours
Cool below 41° F in under 4 hours
Click on a step in the Cool Down process to display the Step Details for the.
On the Heat step, the “target temperature” is the safe cooking temperature that the food must reach before cooling can begin. This can be adjusted for the type of food you are processing.
For example, chicken products might need to be heated to 165° F and seafood might only need to be cooked to 145° F.
See the next section for help on Adding Products and assigning them to a food handling process.
On the Heat step, adjust the step duration to limit the amount of time allowed to get the food to this temperature.
Remember that once a food handling process is started on the Jolt app, the clock starts ticking.
The other steps in the process can be adjusted the same way.
Click Update to save the changes.
Copy existing processes if needed.
For example, if you need a Cool Down process that heats to 165° F and one that heats to 145° F, you can click the More Options button by the Cood Down processes and click Copy.
You can then adjust the step details as needed.
Delete unneeded processes.
If you are not going to use a process and you don’t want it to display on the Jolt app, you can click the More Options button and click Delete.
Rename the processes.
If a different name makes more sense to your organization than the ones assigned by default, you can click on the Process and click the Options tab and rename it.
Click Update to save the changes.
Update the process's description.
Jolt provides a short description for each process which displays on the app and you can adjust to make more sense to your organization.
Click on the process and click the Options tab to update the process description.
Click Update to save the changes.
Set the available products.
Jolt lets you designate which products should be available to a process. See the next section for adding products.
On the Options tab, click in the Available Products area and check the box for each product you want to use with this process.
Products can be available to multiple processes.
If a product is not on the list, you can click the Add Product button to add the product on the fly.
Customize the final actions for failed processes. (Optional)
Click on the Edit final actions link to display the template for the final actions on a failed process.
Add/remove any items to make the final step on a failed process match your food handling requirements.
Hold Processes
Hold processes have a “measurement window” at the end of a hold step. A temperature must be taken during this window. The window is defined by setting the “Allow measurement before” and the “Allow measurement after” values. The time before and after added together constitute the measurement window.
Note: It is necessary to add before/after buffers to a hold step because it is understood that most users will not be available to take measurements exactly at the time the step ends.
Adding Products
Note: Processes must be configured before adding products.
Before you start, it is helpful to organize your product list in a spreadsheet to help with data entry. For example, you could make a simple list, like the example below, showing the safe cook temp to start each product at.
On the Jolt Web Portal, navigate to Lists | Time & Temperature.
Switch to content group or location mode depending on who you are entering products for.
If locations don’t want to see each others’ products, make sure you enter each locations’ products in location mode for that location.
Click on the Products tab.
Click the Plus button to start adding products.
Enter the product name and click in the Allowed Processes section and select the processes to associate with this product.
A process won’t be available for a product on the Jolt app unless the process is added here.
Select a process to be the default process for this product. The default process would be the one that you use most frequently for this product and is automatically selected when starting a new process on the Jolt app.
Click Save & Add to continue adding more products, or click Save to complete the add product workflow.
Tip: If you have a lot of products to add, it might be helpful to organize them in a spreadsheet and group them together by their default process. For example, group all of the products that have to be heated to 165 and all the products that are prepared at room temperature into separate groups. This makes adding all the products in the same group go more quickly since using the Save & Add button remembers the settings from the last product.
Note: You can search for products and change the spelling or delete them from the Products tab.