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A professional who tends batch freezer that freezes liquid ice cream mix to semisolid consistency. Respnsibilities include:
* Measures specified amounts of ice cream mix, color, and flavor, using graduate, and dumps ingredients into freezer barrel.
* Starts beaters and refrigerating unit.
* Observes clock and ammeter for specified reading denoting end of freezing cycle and turns valve to start flow of frozen mix into containers.
* Places fixture which ripples ice cream into valve outlet, and stirs syrups into ice cream with spoon or adds candies, fruit, and nuts to make various varieties of ice cream.
* Places containers of mix in hardening cabinet.
* Washes and sterilizes equipment, using cleansing solution, brushes, and hot water.
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A professional who tends machine that chills cased chickens and chicken parts preparatory to storage in refrigerated holding rooms. Respnsibilities include:
* Monitors thermometers and carbon dioxide gas pressure gauges, and turns regulating valve controls to adjust flow of gas refrigerant into cartons.
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A professional who tends coffee roaster equipped with rotating cylinder through which green coffee beans flow in continuous stream for roasting. Responsibilities include:
* Moves controls to regulate speed of cylinder rotation, rate of flow of beans, and temperature of oven for each coffee blend, according to specifications.
* May tend machine that grinds coffee beans.
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A professional who tends steam-jacketed tank in which flesh is removed from bones of animals. Respnsibilities include:
* Lowers basket of bones into water-filled cooking tank, using hoist.
* Opens and regulates steam valves to heat water to specified temperature.
* Removes basket of cleaned bones from tank with hoist.
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A professional who tends steam cooker that breaks down oil cells and controls moisture content of corn, soybeans, cottonseed, linseed meal (meats) or fish, prior to extraction of oil. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to regulate steam pressure inside cooker or steam jacket and to maintain temperature within specified range.
* Observes conveyor feeding material to cooker or climbs to top of cooker to determine that material is feeding continuously.
* May scoop handful of material from entry or discharge point of cooker and examine or feel material to determine how much steam should be added.
* May record steam pressure and temperature readings at specified intervals.
* May tend machine to crush meats for processing.
* May tend cake-forming machine to shape cottonseed meats for pressing.
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A professional who tends equipment that cools and transfers wort to starting tank preparatory to fermenting. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to control flow of refrigerant through cooler coils.
* Starts pumps and opens valves to draw hot wort from tank through cooler and into starting tank.
* Monitors pressure gauges, flowmeters, thermometers, and temperature recorders, and turns valves to control rate of flow and temperature of wort passing through cooling machine.
* Observes flowmeter and opens valves to admit specified amounts of air into wort.
* Opens valves to circulate solutions through wort coils to clean and sterilize lines.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that cools and transfers wort to starting tank preparatory to fermenting. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to control flow of refrigerant through cooler coils.
* Starts pumps and opens valves to draw hot wort from tank through cooler and into starting tank.
* Monitors pressure gauges, flowmeters, thermometers, and temperature recorders, and turns valves to control rate of flow and temperature of wort passing through cooling machine.
* Observes flowmeter and opens valves to admit specified amounts of air into wort.
* Opens valves to circulate solutions through wort coils to clean and sterilize lines.
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A professional who tends equipment that cools preserves and fruit concentrate. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valve to admit water into jacket of cooling pan to cool preserves and fruit concentrate.
* Skims foam from top of preserves, using ladle.
* Stirs preserves or fruit concentrate with paddle to prevent coagulation and to allow even cooling.
* Observes thickening and starts pump, or opens dump valve, to transfer preserves or fruit concentrate from cooling pan to holding tank or filling machine when desired consistency is reached.
* May determine sugar content of preserves or fruit concentrate, using refractometer, and record results.
* May add sugar or water to preserves or fruit concentrate, according to formula, to bring sugar content up to standard.
* May start fan above cooling pan to aid cooling.
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A professional who tends sulfur and drying chambers to bleach and dehydrate fruit. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts conveyors to load trays with fruit, and levels fruit in trays to ensure thorough processing.
* Pushes loaded cart into sulfurizing chamber and lights burner to generate fumes.
* Moves cart from sulfurizing chamber into drying chamber to dehydrate fruit.
* Observes gauges, and regulates and maintains specified temperature and humidity in drying chambers.
* Feels and observes fruit during dehydrating process to ascertain firmness and color in accordance with standards.
* Pulls cart from heating chamber.
* May record drying time of each load.
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A professional who tends rotary driers that remove moisture from materials, such as corn germs, alfalfa, and shredded sweet potatoes. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to admit steam through lines or fuel to furnace to heat drier.
* Observes gauges to verify drier temperature.
* Turns valves to regulate steam pressure or starts blower of furnace to regulate temperature of drier.
* Examines and feels discharged material or observes gauges to determine that moisture content of material conforms to standard.
* Turns handwheel or valve to control rate of speed and amount of material conveyed into drier.
* Starts blower to remove material from drier.
* May direct workers engaged in shredding potatoes and sacking dried material.
* May be designated according to material dried as Germ Drier; or method of heating drier as Fire Drier.
* May tend attrition and hammer mills in addition to rotary drier to prepare stock feed from bran and gluten and be designated Feed-Drier Tender.
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