A professional who tends one or more gas ovens to pop corn. Respnsibilities include:

• Lights ovens and starts rotating cone- or drum-shaped perforated oven.
• Dumps measured amount of corn into oven.
• Places container at discharge end of oven to receive popcorn or starts conveyor to carry corn through screen to remove unpopped kernels.
• Moves lever to reverse rotation of oven and to dump unpopped kernels into container beneath oven.
• When popping corn by wet method, pushes level to release measured amount of oil into unpopped corn in stationary oven.
• May prepare syrup and coat popcorn to make popcorn candy.