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O*NET detailed work activityPrepare meat products for sale or consumption
Stays humanHands-on work
4 jobs12 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, 12 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Prepare and place meat cuts and products in display counter to appear attractive and catch the shopper's eye.
- Shape, lace, and tie roasts, using boning knife, skewer, and twine.
- Grind meat into hamburger, and into trimmings used to prepare sausages, luncheon meats, and other meat products.
- Produce hamburger meat and meat trimmings.
- Set standards for the production of meat or poultry products or for food ingredients, additives, or compounds used to prepare or package products.
- Set labeling standards and approve labels for meat or poultry products.
- Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.
- 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.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Wrap, weigh, label, and price cuts of meat.
- Cut, trim, bone, tie, and grind meats, such as beef, pork, poultry, and fish, to prepare in cooking form.
- Inspect meat products for defects, bruises or blemishes and remove them along with any excess fat.
- Separate meats and byproducts into specified containers and seal containers.