生活英语|叫人羡慕的职业——职业品尝师其实不简单

职业品尝师的工作不是收钱去吃点心。现实是这份工作重复性高、技术性强。

Being a professional taste-tester isnt just getting paid to snack. The reality is that the job is repetitive and highly skilled.

As a kid, everyone fantasizes about getting to sample ice cream and cookies as a full-time^{1 career. The reality is the job is very detail-oriented and very repetitive.}

When evaluating a product, testers cant just label it as good or bad. Instead, a mathematical score has to be given for every aspect of the food, with testers identifying the strength of each specific flavor.

It requires such a high level of concentration, one taste-tester told TODAY.com.

Sometimes a tester will have to sample a specific product, such as a cookie or cracker^{2, for weeks on end.}

Youre getting graded on what you do, so its kind of stressful. You want to do a good job, and its totally quantitative^{3. You go into test-taking mode, the taste-tester added.}