i trained in breaking down bear, elk, boar, and cows.
- Performed primary and secondary butchery skills with steak and boning knives, hand saws, cleavers, banding needles to cut meats.
- Observed and practiced butcher's role in audit and inspection process.
- Maintained principles of butchery selection with procurement, provenance and handling of livestock for slaughter practices.
- Applied hand-eye coordination and physical agility to manually handle carcasses for butchery processes.
- Prepared meat into forms ready for cooking by boning, tying, grinding, cutting and trimming meats.
- Used boning knife, skewers and twine to shape, lace, and tie roasts.
- Performed waste minimization, saleable yield and predictive costing methods.
- Cut, trimmed and ground meats such as beef, pork, and poultry to prepare for packaging and sale.
- Produced meat and poultry products to specifications of customers for sale.
- Facilitated cold storage, stock control and safe movement of meat and poultry in butchery environment.
- Demonstrated shaping, lacing and tying of roasts using boning knives, skewers and twine to create attractive displays.