Also called: Olive Oil Taster, Specialty Food Educator
Tastes, grades, and teaches about olive oils for shops, importers, and producers.
You sip oils from small blue glasses, judging bitterness, pungency, and defects, and train shop staff to sell them. Some tasters sit on certified panels that grade oils as 'extra virgin.' It is one of food's strangest and coolest niches.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Certificate, about 1 year after high school. Olive oil sommelier certification courses.
Ways in: Certification, On-the-job training. Training cost: Under $15k.
Growing about average.
Low risk for 10 years. Tasting and grading olive oil is a sensory skill; AI can't taste.
Classes: Chemistry, Biology, Italian or Spanish.
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