Operate or tend cooking equipment, such as steam cooking vats, deep fry cookers, pressure cookers, kettles, and boilers, to prepare food products.
<ul><li>Tend or operate and control equipment, such as kettles, cookers, vats and tanks, and boilers, to cook ingredients or prepare products for further processing.</li><li>Set temperature, pressure, and time controls, and start conveyers, machines, or pumps.</li><li>Observe gauges, dials, and product characteristics, and adjust controls to maintain appropriate temperature, pressure, and flow of ingredients.</li><li>Clean, wash, and sterilize equipment and cooking area, using water hoses, cleaning or sterilizing solutions, or rinses.</li><li>Listen for malfunction alarms, and shut down equipment and notify supervisors when necessary.</li><li>Remove cooked material or products from equipment.</li><li>Read work orders, recipes, or formulas to determine cooking times and temperatures, and ingredient specifications.</li><li>Measure or weigh ingredients, using scales or measuring containers.</li><li>Turn valves or start pumps to add ingredients or drain products from equipment and to transfer products for storage, cooling, or further processing.</li><li>Collect and examine product samples during production to test them for quality, color, content, consistency, viscosity, acidity, or specific gravity.</li><li>Notify or signal other workers to operate equipment or when processing is complete.</li><li>Record production and test data, such as processing steps, temperature and steam readings, cooking time, batches processed, and test results.</li><li>Admit required amounts of water, steam, cooking oils, or compressed air into equipment, such as by opening water valves to cool mixtures to the desired consistency.</li></ul>