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O*NET detailed work activityCut meat products
Stays humanHands-on work
3 jobs13 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Prepare foods or beverages, under the O*NET work activity group Handling and Moving Objects. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 13 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Cut, trim, bone, tie, and grind meats, such as beef, pork, poultry, and fish, to prepare in cooking form.
- Use knives, cleavers, meat saws, bandsaws, or other equipment to perform meat cutting and trimming.
- Cut and trim meat to prepare for packing.
- Prepare special cuts of meat ordered by customers.
- Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing.
- Process primal parts into cuts that are ready for retail use.
- Cut, trim, skin, sort, and wash viscera of slaughtered animals to separate edible portions from offal.
- Trim head meat, and sever or remove parts of animals' heads or skulls.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Clean, trim, slice, and section carcasses for future processing.
- Shape, lace, and tie roasts, using boning knife, skewer, and twine.
- Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.
- Tend assembly lines, performing a few of the many cuts needed to process a carcass.
- Prepare ready-to-heat foods by filleting meat or fish or cutting it into bite-sized pieces, preparing and adding vegetables or applying sauces or breading.