How do they match: Food Cooking Machine Operators and Tenders

  • Operate or tend cooking equipment, such as steam cooking vats, deep fry cookers, pressure cookers, kettles, and boilers, to prepare food products.

  • Collect and examine product samples during production to test them for quality, color, content, consistency, viscosity, acidity, or specific gravity.
  • Operate auxiliary machines and equipment, such as grinders, canners, and molding presses, to prepare or further process products.
  • Read work orders, recipes, or formulas to determine cooking times and temperatures, and ingredient specifications.
  • Tend or operate and control equipment, such as kettles, cookers, vats and tanks, and boilers, to cook ingredients or prepare products for further processing.

  • Operate cooking, baking, or other food preparation equipment.
  • Read work orders or other instructions to determine product specifications or materials requirements.