A professional who controls open-fire or steam-jacketed kettles or batch or continuous pressure cookers to cook candy, gum, or other confectionery ingredients according to formula. Respnsibilities include:

• Weighs or measures ingredients, such as sugar, corn syrup, butter, and gum base, and adds them to cooking utensil.

• Starts agitators to mix ingredients.

• Turns valve to admit steam and sets pressure gauge and thermostat to cook ingredients at specified temperature.

• Feels batch for specified consistency and verifies percentage of sugar in syrup, using refractometer or hydrometer.

• Adjusts steam valve and heating element accordingly.

• Opens discharge valve and starts pump or tilts cooker or kettle to pour or dump confection into beaters or onto cooling belts or tables.

• May partially cook batch in open kettle and pump it into pressure cooker.

• May beat or knead confection to attain specified consistency, as determined by color and texture.

• May shovel fondant into remelt kettles and add measured amounts of flavoring and coloring.

• May be designated according to type of confectionery cooked as bonbon-cream warmer; crystal-syrup maker; coconut cooker; fondant cooker; gum maker; or equipment used as vacuum-cooker operator.

• May be designated: icing maker; king maker; marshmallow maker. تصليح طباخات