Ray Karam, another taster with 30-plus years under his belt, as well as an impressive background in food science, has an even more creative role in the industry.
Some additional functions of Harrison’s role have included handing out ice cream samples at supermarkets around the country during ice cream season, which spans from March to September, and serving as a national spokesperson for ice cream, which is the most popular dessert in the U.S. “t’s a tough job, but somebody has to do it,” Harrison explains to Cooking Light. He then spends four to five hours testing around 20 different flavors of ice cream at different stages of production (three samples per flavor/60 samples per day). Harrison begins his workday at 7:30 a.m., when his taste buds are in their most objective state.
(Incidentally, his favorite flavor is still vanilla.) A Day in the Lifeĭreyer’s Grand Ice Cream master taster John Harrison has been sampling ice cream for 30 years, during which time he’s taste-tasted an estimated 200 gallons of ice cream. An ice cream taster can earn up to $100,000 a year, according to some sources. As well as possibly being the most fun job in the universe, a career in frozen treat-sampling can be lucrative. While an exact job description depends on the employer and specific role, a taster’s additional responsibilities can include inventing new ice cream flavors and products, or serving as a marketing rep for his or her company.
A full-time taster may be expected to stick to an aggressive daily sampling schedule, and is asked to assess the quality of each flavor on the basis of texture, color, smell, appearance, and other factors in addition to taste. The job of an ice cream taster – also called a tastemaster, food scientist, sensory analyst, or flavorologist – is unsurprisingly, to taste-test ice cream.
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