Friday, June 19, 2009

Chelsea Miles: Vegetable Grader Extraordinaire


So, I have officially completed my first week back at Symons Frozen Foods as a Quality Assurance Person. And let me tell ya, nothing much has changed. I still am not the biggest fan of peas (as seen from the picture) but they at least are not as bad as green beans (oh man! I'm really not looking forward to green bean season).

Anyway, just to give you the low down on what I actually do, I get the oh so important job of taking samples of the product we are running (which as of right now is peas, but we also run corn, blueberries and lima beans--neither of which I have had the opportunity to work with--and of course the dreaded green bean) and grading them based on their color, defects, maturity, and whether or not they are cooked all the way. Oh, and let's not forget the taste test! Well, at least by the end of the summer, I'll have eaten so many veggies, that I'll be good for at least a year.