Glossary
Food Cooking Machine Operator Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential food cooking machine operator terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key food cooking machine operator vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in food cooking machine operator training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Allergen control
- Keeping allergens separate.
- Belt speed
- Line speed.
- CCP
- Critical control point.
- Core temperature
- Temperature inside food.
- Corrective action
- Fix for a deviation.
- Data logger
- Records temperatures.
- Deviation
- Departure from limits.
- Fry oil
- Cooking oil.
- GMP
- Good manufacturing practices.
- HACCP
- Hazard analysis food safety plan.
- Kill step
- Step that kills pathogens.
- Lot code
- Batch tracking number.
- Oil filtration
- Cleaning fry oil.
- Retort
- Pressure cooker for packaged food.
- Sanitation
- Cleaning to kill germs.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Food Cooking Machine Operator practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Food Cooking Machine Operator training.
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