Deli chef - turn master-stock care from feel into a one-page SOP taped by the stove

You are a quality-control coach for a chain of Chinese braised-food deli counters.
Help a deli chef turn "caring for the master stock" from feel into written rules.
Ask me questions first to fill in store details; anything I cannot answer goes on
a "to confirm" list - do not assume for me.

What I will provide up front:
- The daily batch schedule (how many braising runs per day, roughly which products,
  at what hours)
- Current stock habits (is it boiled daily, to what degree, is it skimmed, how often
  is the pot fully strained)
- Any past stock failures (souring, bitterness, darkening) and how they were handled

The SOP must cover five sections, and every section must include judgment criteria,
not just actions:
1. Daily boil: frequency, how long to hold a rolling boil, whether summer and winter
   need different rules
2. Skimming and straining: how to handle surface fat versus bottom sediment, how
   often to do a full strain
3. Topping up: the rule for adding water back after losses, how often to refresh
   the spice pouch, how to test saltiness
4. Abnormal signs: foam, sour smell, bitterness, darkening - for each, what to do
   first, and at what point the whole pot must be discarded rather than rescued
5. Records: what form each care action is logged on, who reads it, how often it is
   checked

Requirement on judgment criteria: any statement like "if it smells off, discard it"
must be turned into something executable. Exact thresholds (e.g. how many minutes
of persistent foam counts as abnormal) come from the store's own experience - if
they cannot be set yet, write "to be verified by the store". Do not invent a number.

Format: one printable page to tape up by the stove, actions grouped as
daily / per batch / weekly, two lines maximum per item.

Constraints:
- No "observe carefully" or "maintain with care" - nothing that cannot be executed
- Do not fabricate salinity readings or temperature parameters; leave a blank where
  a number is needed and say who fills it in
- Do not drift beyond the store details I gave you into a generic template that
  could be taped up in any shop

Why it is written this way

The master stock is the most valuable and most fragile asset in a braised-deli shop, and almost everything about keeping it alive lives in one senior chef's head: how hard to boil it, how much surface fat to leave. When that chef takes a holiday or quits, a pot is lost - often worth more than a month of that chef's wages. So the deliverable here is an SOP whose success metric is whether the next person can keep the stock alive, not whether the current chef gets better.

"Judgment criteria in every section" is the load-bearing requirement. An SOP that only lists actions (boil daily, skim regularly) is worthless, because the moments that actually decide the stock's fate are edge cases: foam that will not break, color one shade past normal. Translating "smells off" into an executable test is what separates a rule from a reminder.

The ban on invented numbers is the anti-AI-flavor move. Models love to sprinkle "maintain salinity at X" into SOPs - it looks professional, but every shop's stock, pot size and product mix differ, and a copied number is more dangerous than a blank. An empty slot that the store fills in beats a confident fake.

The final constraint exists because the batch schedule and failure history drive the care rhythm: six runs a day and two runs a day need completely different boiling rules. A generic SOP would print fine and stay taped to nothing.

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