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A professional who tends one or more gas ovens to pop corn. Respnsibilities include:
* Lights ovens and starts rotating cone- or drum-shaped perforated oven.
* Dumps measured amount of corn into oven.
* Places container at discharge end of oven to receive popcorn or starts conveyor to carry corn through screen to remove unpopped kernels.
* Moves lever to reverse rotation of oven and to dump unpopped kernels into container beneath oven.
* When popping corn by wet method, pushes level to release measured amount of oil into unpopped corn in stationary oven.
* May prepare syrup and coat popcorn to make popcorn candy.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends stationary or rotary hearth oven that bakes bread, pastries, and other bakery products. Respnsibilities include:
* Places pans of unbaked goods on blade of long-handled paddle (peel).
* Opens oven door and slides loaded peel into oven.
* Jerks paddle from under pans to deposit them on hearth.
* Observes gauges and turns valves to regulate heat and humidity of oven.
* Notes color of products during baking to ensure uniformity of finished products.
* Removes baked goods from oven with peel, and places them on tiered racks.
* Flips switch to position hearth for loading and unloading when tending rotary hearth oven.
* May place bagels into kettle of boiling water, remove bagels from kettle, using ladle, and sprinkle bagels with seasoning prior to placing bagels in oven.
* May be designated according to type of oven tended or product baked as Oven Tender, Bagels (bakery products); Peel Oven Tender (bakery products); Rotary-Peel Oven Tender (bakery products).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that automatically coats inside surfaces of baking pans with grease. Respnsibilities include:
* Places container of grease alongside machine and inserts suction pipe into container.
* Starts machine.
* Adjusts gauge to regulate spray of grease.
* Removes greased pans from machine conveyor and places pans on second conveyor for transfer to batter depositing machine, or stacks pans on racks.
* May be designated according to type of pans greased as Bread-Pan Greaser (bakery products); Cake-Pan Greaser (bakery products).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following duties on pie-machine conveyor line. Respnsibilities include:
* Loads dough into hopper of pie-dough scaling machine.
* Turns hand lever to adjust scaling cylinder of machine to produce lumps of dough of prescribed size.
* Removes lumps of dough deposited from scaling machine and places them in dough-rolling-machine hopper.
* Turns hand lever to adjust rollers of machine to produce dough disks of desired thickness, catches dough emerging from first set of rollers, and drops dough into second set of rollers.
* Catches dough emerging from rolling machine and places it in piepan as it moves on conveyor.
* Dumps pie filling from container into hopper of filling machine, using hoist.
* Observes pies being filled and adjusts mechanism to regulate feed of filling or fills pies by hand.
* Catches dough emerging from rolling machine and places it over filled pies.
* Perforates pie covers to identify filling, using hand stamp.
* Inserts pan containing pie in pie-crimping machine and depresses pedal to crimp and seal perimeter of pie.
* Trims excess dough from pie with knife.
* May be designated according to phase of operation performed as Pie Bottomer (bakery products); Pie-Crimping-Machine Operator (bakery products); Pie-Dough Roller (bakery products); Pie Filler (bakery products); Pie Topper (bakery products).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment to cook and mix syrup with popcorn, forming popcorn candy. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs, measures, adds, stirs, and cooks ingredients, such as corn syrup, butter, and water in open-fire cooker or steam-jacketed kettle according to formula and specified procedure.
* Dumps popped corn into bowl of mixing machine or other container.
* Pours syrup over corn and starts agitator to mix corn and syrup for specified time or until coating is complete.
* May tend molding press to form popcorn novelties or shapes, such as balls or fritters (disks).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that washes, slices, fries, and salts potatoes to make potato chips. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens valve to pump preheated cooking oil into cooking vats.
* Fills salt hopper.
* Adjusts burner controls to maintain specified temperature in cooking vats.
* Turns valves to rinse potato slices, and moves levers to control rate of flow of potato slices into cooking vats.
* Stirs potato slices to ensure uniform cooking, using paddle or by use of automatic reciprocating rakes.
* Observes color of cooked potato chips as they emerge onto conveyors from cooking vats.
* Replaces worn blades on slicing heads, using handtools.
* May cook potatoes by lowering wire basket of sliced potatoes into vat of cooking oil.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that deep-fries potato pancakes in oil, preparatory to freezing and packaging. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps potato batter into hopper of machine that automatically forms and fries pancakes.
* Turns valve to add specified amount of frying oil into machine.
* Inspects fried pancakes on conveyor to verify specified size and color.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends oven that automatically cooks, salts, bakes, and dries pretzels. Respnsibilities include:
* Lights oven and sets thermostats of cooker, oven, and kiln at specified temperature.
* Dumps specified amount of salt, soda, and water into hoppers of oven.
* Turns valve to sprinkle salt and to allow soda solution to drain continuously into cooking pit of oven.
* Observes progress of uncooked pretzels moving on conveyor into oven, and straightens pretzels, using wire hooked rod.
* Tastes baked pretzels, observes their color, and adjusts speed of conveyor or temperature of cooker, oven, and kiln to ensure pretzels conform to color and taste standards.
* May place unbaked pretzels on oven conveyor by inverting boards loaded with pretzels.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that precooks meat products preparatory to canning. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machines and conveyors, and loads meat into grinder to be ground and fed into cooker.
* Observes temperature gauge and color of meat during cooking process, and turns valve or adjusts rheostat to maintain specified temperature for prescribed cooking time.
* Turns valves to permit flow of cooking fluid into machine and from machine into filtering tanks.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that cooks tripe to tenderize it preparatory to further processing. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps tripe into scalding vat to remove outer skin.
* Turns valve to admit water and steam into cooking vat and transfers tripe into vat by hand or using pitchfork.
* Observes gauge and regulates valves to maintain specified temperature in vat.
* Removes cooked tripe from vat after specified length of time and places it in trays or on racks for chilling.
* May cook tongue.
Industry:Professional careers
