From pastry maker to baker
24 of the 35 essential skills of a baker are already essential for a pastry maker — about 69% of the job, before you learn anything new. It is the closest move from pastry maker in the whole taxonomy.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 24
- skills carry over
- 11
- would be new
- 69%
- of the target job covered
- 35
- essential skills of a baker
What a baker does
Bakers make a wide range of breads, pastries, and other baked goods. They follow all the processes from receipt and storage of raw materials, preparation of raw materials for bread-making, measurement and mixing of ingredients into dough and proof. They tend ovens to bake products to an adequate temperature and time.
What carries over
24 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- administer ingredients in food production
- apply flame handling regulations
- apply GMP
- apply HACCP
- apply requirements concerning manufacturing of food and beverages
- bake goods
- care for food aesthetic
- check quality of products on the production line
- clean food and beverage machinery
- crafting
- ensure correct use of bakery equipment
- knead food products
- maintain cutting equipment
- measure precise food processing operations
- monitor flour unloading equipment
- monitor machine operations
- monitor temperature in farinaceous processes
- mould doughs
- operate mixing of food products
- operate weighing machine
- select adequate ingredients
- set up machine controls
- store raw food materials
- work according to recipe
What would be new
11 skillsEssential for a baker and not for a pastry maker. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- administer lactic ferment cultures to manufacturing products
- bakery ingredients
- bakery production methods
- ensure sanitation
- financial capability
- follow hygienic procedures during food processing
- food and beverage industry
- food safety principles
- mark differences in colours
- prepare bakery products
- tend bakery ovens
Other moves from pastry maker
2 roles- pasta maker16 skills in common
- pasta operator15 skills in common
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How far are you from being a baker?
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