Cooking instruction verification and generation services

Cooking instruction trials you can trust

Our expert team consists of qualified chefs, thermal process engineers, physicists and food technology experts. They have unrivalled experience and knowledge across the complete range of domestic cooking appliances – including ovens (gas, electric and fan), hobs, grills, microwaves, air fryers, deep fat fryers, steamers and toasters – and have helped write BRC Cooking Instruction Guidance and retailer protocols.

Check out our white paper on BRCGS for Food Safety Clause 5.2.5: Cooking (heating) instruction validation, and the detail behind best practice instruction generation, validation and verification

We offer a simple price structure with a ‘whole service’ encompassed in the standard price. Trials can be performed according to a specific retailer’s protocol or according to Campden BRI test methods.

As standard we will track the product cook temperature live using temperature probes in situ. If instructions provided don’t meet cook targets (e.g. 70°C for 2 minutes thermal process), then we will cook on and provide a new instruction, all included in the standard price.

We offer a 5-day turnaround as standard but can do faster turnarounds on request.

See summary of what we include in our verification or generation trials, detailed clearly and concisely in our reports, as standard:

• Product images post cook
• Temperature profiles of product during cook (see graph below)
• Calibration on the day of test for most appliances (with graphs if appropriate)
• Full tables of results
• Product sensory comments
• A verified cooking instruction based on scientific results
• Back of Pack Instruction format suggestion
• Product weights (always) and cook loss (if requested)

Also included is the access to our helpful team experts, who can support you if the results are not as expected.