/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>9180950
Chocolatier is a dead career you retard
Climate Change is going to destroy chocolate production across the planet. There will be no chocolate at all in a few decades.
Why do you think studying for fucking making little chocolates look like little mango fruits and tennis balls is a good way to make a living? It isn't. Get a real fucking cooking degree. Personally I think you need a STEM course (Saucier, Tournant, Entree Chef, Meat Chef) rather than wasting your time on a fucking dead industry where the key ingredient will be 10 times as expensive in a few decades.

Also guess what? Even if the fucking chocolate doesn't go extinct, Chocolatier is a retarded career choice with no transferable skills. I started off as a Fish Chef, which doesn't sound great but guess what? I was able to use the experience to open 10 restaurants of my own all of which are now very successful. Learning to debone fish under pressure is a real skill that can be applied in many situations. For example, I often go camping and was once approached by a bear. I managed to make him go away by deboning an entire wild salmon in 10 seconds, and throwing him the corpse. If I hadn't deboned the fish he wouldn't have been able to eat it and would have attacked me. I also command respect. People know that I can take literally any species of fish and instantly recognise the tastes of each piece of its body so they know I never forget. You don't make the mistake of getting into a grudge with a man who can tell you the exact flavour tones and texture of the stomach of the Lower Italian Ganges Basin Blue Backed Tuna without hesitation.

Chocolatier is a fucking joke. Nobody will ever respect you. You will always be 'that guy who makes gay little swan origami out of cocoa butter'. Nobody sees that as a worthwhile skill. Most restaurants have already started firing their chocolatiers. Your entire job can be done by a plastic mould. You are like a prostitute who can be replaced by a fleshlight.