A professional who prepares charts of quantities, grades, and types of cheese required for blending to make cheese products. Respnsibilities include:

• Feels, tastes, smells, and observes cheese for firmness, mellowness, acidity, and color, and selects cheese products for specified blend.
• Calculates quantities of cheese required for each batch, according to formula, and records quantities, grades, and types on chart.
• Compares laboratory reports with specifications and alters calculations to achieve specified body, texture, flavor, moisture, fat, acidity, and salt in finished product.