What is a "taster"? What abilities do you need to hold this position?

Tasting staff is a profession, mainly responsible for tasting food, beverages and other products, and giving opinions and suggestions on their taste, taste and quality. This kind of occupation usually exists in food production enterprises, catering enterprises, food sales enterprises and other fields.

To be a qualified sommelier, you usually need the following abilities:

1. Taste acuity: A taster needs to have keen perception and discrimination on the taste and mouthfeel of food, and can accurately evaluate the quality of food.

2. Sharp sense of smell: The taster also needs to have a keen perception and discrimination ability on the smell and aroma of food, and can accurately evaluate whether the aroma of food is rich or not, whether there is an odor, etc.

3. Good taste: A sommelier needs to have good taste and mouthfeel, and can accurately describe the taste, texture and taste changes of food.

4. Health: Tasters need to stay healthy to avoid food allergies and other problems.

5. Honesty and trustworthiness: sommeliers need to be honest and trustworthy, and their comments and suggestions on food must be true and objective, and products cannot be falsely exaggerated or deliberately slandered.

6. Good communication skills: A sommelier needs to have good communication skills, be able to clearly convey his opinions and suggestions, and effectively communicate and coordinate with relevant personnel such as production and sales.

In short, to become a qualified gourmet taster, you need to have certain professional knowledge and skills, and you need to maintain a good physical and psychological state to ensure the accuracy and efficiency of your work.