Glossary
Food Batchmaker Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential food batchmaker terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key food batchmaker vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in food batchmaker training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Allergen control
- Keeping allergens separate.
- Batch
- One mixed load.
- Batch record
- Documentation of a batch.
- Brix
- Sugar content.
- Changeover
- Switching products.
- Formula
- Recipe.
- GMP
- Good manufacturing practices.
- HACCP
- Hazard analysis food safety plan.
- Kettle
- Cooking vessel.
- Lot code
- Batch tracking number.
- pH
- Acidity.
- Sanitation
- Cleaning to kill germs.
- Scaling
- Adjusting recipe size.
- Tolerance
- Allowed variation.
- Viscosity
- Thickness.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Food Batchmaker practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Food Batchmaker training.
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