Glossary
Food Roasting Machine Operator Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential food roasting machine operator terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key food roasting machine operator vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in food roasting machine operator training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Afterburner
- Burns smoke.
- Allergen control
- Keeping allergens separate.
- Batch
- One load.
- Chaff
- Coffee bean skin.
- Color reading
- Roast darkness measure.
- Cooling tray
- Stops roasting.
- Dwell time
- Time in oven.
- First crack
- Coffee roasting sound.
- GMP
- Good manufacturing practices.
- HACCP
- Hazard analysis food safety plan.
- Lot code
- Batch tracking number.
- Moisture content
- Water in product.
- Roast profile
- Time and temperature plan.
- Sanitation
- Cleaning to kill germs.
- Setpoint
- Target temperature.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Food Roasting Machine Operator practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Food Roasting Machine Operator training.
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