- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who mixes ingredients and bakes pies, tarts, and cobblers, according to recipes. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs and measures ingredients, using measuring cup and spoons.
* Mixes ingredients by hand or with electric mixer to form piecrust dough.
* Rolls and shapes dough, using rolling pin.
* Places portions of rolled dough in piepans and trims overlapping edges with knife.
* Cuts, peels, and prepares fruit for pie fillings.
* Mixes and cooks ingredients for fillings, such as creams and custards.
* Pours fillings into pie shells.
* Covers filling with top crust or spreads topping, such as cream or meringue, over filling.
* Places pie in oven to bake.
* Adjusts drafts or thermostatic controls to regulate oven temperatures.
* Usually found in restaurant or cafeteria where no pastry cook is employed and need not be able to bake other desserts or pastries as opposed to pastry cook.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares and cooks to order foods requiring short preparation time. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads food order slip or receives verbal instructions as to food required by patron, and prepares and cooks food according to instructions.
* Prepares sandwiches.
* Prepares salads and slices meats and cheese, using slicing machine,.
* Cleans work area and food preparation equipment.
* May prepare beverages.
* May serve meals to patrons over counter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares food and serves restaurant patrons at counters or tables. Respnsibilities include:
* Takes order from customer and cooks foods requiring short preparation time, according to customer requirements.
* Completes order from steamtable and serves customer at table or counter.
* Accepts payment and makes change, or writes charge slip.
* Carves meats, makes sandwiches, and brews coffee.
* May clean food preparation equipment and work area.
* May clean counter or tables.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares bread, rolls, muffins, and biscuits according to recipe. Respnsibilities include:
* Checks production schedule to determine variety and quantity of goods to bake.
* Measures ingredients, using measuring cups and spoons.
* Mixes ingredients to form dough or batter by hand or using electric mixer.
* Cuts dough into uniform portions with knife or divider.
* Molds dough into loaves or desired shapes.
* Places shaped dough in greased or floured pans.
* Spreads or sprinkles topping, such as jelly, cinnamon, and poppy seeds on specialties.
* Places pans of dough in proof box to rise.
* Inserts pans of raised dough in oven to bake, using peel.
* Adjusts drafts or thermostatic controls to regulate oven temperature.
* Removes baked goods from oven and places goods on cooling rack.
* May bake pies, cakes, cookies, and other pastries.
* May be designated according to specialty baked as Baker, Biscuit; Hot-Bread Baker; Rolls Baker; or according to shift worked as Night Baker.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares and bakes pizza pies. Respnsibilities include:
* Measures ingredients, such as flour, water, and yeast, using measuring cup, spoon, and scale.
* Dumps specified ingredients into pan or bowl of mixing machine preparatory to mixing.
* Starts machine and observes operation until ingredients are mixed to desired consistency.
* Stops machine and dumps dough into proof box to allow dough to rise.
* Kneads fermented dough.
* Cuts out and weighs amount of dough required to produce pizza pies of desired thickness.
* Shapes dough sections into balls or mounds and sprinkles each section with flour to prevent crust forming until used.
* Greases pan.
* Stretches or spreads dough mixture to size of pan.
* Places dough in pan and adds olive oil and tomato puree, tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese, meat, or other garnish on surface of dough, according to kind of pizza ordered.
* Sets thermostatic controls and inserts pizza into heated oven to bake for specified time.
* Removes product from oven and observes color to determine when pizza is done.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares, seasons, and barbecues pork, beef, chicken, and other types of meat. Respnsibilities include:
* Builds fire in pit below spit, using hickory wood or other fuel to obtain bed of live coals, or regulates gas or electric heat.
* Secures meat on spit which is slowly turned by hand or electric motor to cook meat uniformly.
* Seasons meat and bastes it frequently during roasting.
* May kill and dress animals or fowls or purchase meat from vendors.
* When cooking whole pigs, may be designated Cook, Roast Pig.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares and bakes cakes, cookies, pies, puddings, or desserts, according to recipe. Respnsibilities include:
* Measures ingredients, using measuring cups and spoons.
* Mixes ingredients to form dough or batter, using electric mixer or beats and stirs ingredients by hand.
* Shapes dough for cookies, pies, and fancy pastries, using pie dough roller and cookie cutters or by hand.
* Places shaped dough portions in greased or floured pans and inserts them in oven, using long-handled paddle (peel).
* Adjusts drafts or thermostatic controls to regulate oven temperatures.
* Prepares and cooks ingredients for pie fillings, puddings, custards, or other desserts.
* Pours filling into pie shells and tops filling with meringue or cream.
* Mixes ingredients to make icings.
* Decorates cakes and pastries.
* Blends colors for icings and for shaped sugar ornaments and statuaries.
* May specialize in preparing one or more types of pastry or dessert when employed in large establishment.
* May oversee work of patients assigned to kitchen for work therapy purposes when working in psychiatric hospital.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares soups, meats, vegetables, salads, dressings, and desserts for consumption in school cafeteria, utilizing cafeteria equipment and cooking experience.
* Specializes in providing lightly seasoned, nutritionally adequate, and varied diet.
* Inspects equipment for cleanliness and functional operation.
* Work is usually performed with other workers.
* May plan menus, order food supplies, and receive supplies delivered.
Industry:Professional careers
