• Record production and test data for each food product batch, such as the ingredients used, temperature, test results, and time cycle.•     Clean and sterilize vats and factory processing areas.•     Set up, operate, and tend equipment that mixes, blends, or processes ingredients in the manufacturing of food products, according to formulas or recipes.•     Mix or blend ingredients, according to recipes, using a paddle or an agitator, or by controlling vats that heat and mix ingredients.•     Follow recipes to produce food products of specified flavor, texture, clarity, bouquet, or color.•     Select and measure or weigh ingredients, using English or metric measures and balance scales.•     Press switches and turn knobs to start, adjust, and regulate equipment, such as beaters, extruders, discharge pipes, and salt pumps.•     Determine mixing sequences, based on knowledge of temperature effects and of the solubility of specific ingredients.•     Turn valve controls to start equipment and to adjust operation to maintain product quality.•     Examine, feel, and taste product samples during production to evaluate quality, color, texture, flavor, and bouquet, and document the results.•     Inspect vats after cleaning to ensure that fermentable residue has been removed.•     Fill processing or cooking containers, such as kettles, rotating cookers, pressure cookers, or vats, with ingredients, by opening valves, by starting pumps or injectors, or by hand.•     Manipulate products, by hand or using machines, to separate, spread, knead, spin, cast, cut, pull, or roll products.•     Cool food product batches on slabs or in water-cooled kettles.•     Place products on carts or conveyors to transfer them to the next stage of processing.•     Inspect and pack the final product.