Cook Pressure Salary
in Idaho, United States

• Cooks fruits, vegetables, meats, condiments, or fish products, preparatory to canning or extraction of byproducts, using cooking equipment.
• Weighs or measures ingredients according to recipe, using scale or graduated container.
• Loads ingredients into kettle or pressure cooker.
• Observes thermometer and gauges, turns valve to admit steam to pressure cookers or lights gas burner to heat and cook contents of kettles.
• Stirs mixture in kettle to blend and prevent scorching of contents, using hand or power-driven paddles.
• Observes cooking process or tests batch liquor with viscosimeter or hydrometer to verify viscosity or specific gravity and to ascertain completeness of cooking process.
• Starts pump, opens valve, or tilts or scoops contents of kettle into container to unload cooked contents.
• May test batch for sugar content, using refractometer.
• May mix ingredients prior to cooking.
• May be designated according to material cooked.

Cook Pressure Job Prevalence in Idaho, United States

Job family: Food Cooking Machine Operators and Tenders

Job family population: 33,340

Estimated population of Cook Pressure jobs: 8,238

Rate of error: 4.3%