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U.S. Department of Labor
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
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