Is a chef a good job for someone with aspergers syndrome?

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No way. It's a very high-pressure position that requires tons of social skills. For most aspies, those are weak points.

Maybe a cake decorator? Shows like Cake Boss give some idea of the job. It's highly skilled and that part of the pastry can be done alone.

Carrot Cake

1½ cups of oil
4 eggs
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 cup golden raisins
1 tablespoon soda
1 ½ teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups sugar
2 cups flour
5 cups grated carrots
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Blend eggs and sugar until smooth. Add oil and stir until smooth. Add flour and spices and stir until smooth, but no further. Add walnuts raisins and carrots, and mix briefly.

Cook in a well-sprayed 10 inch tube cake pan at 350 degrees for 1½ hours, or until a test knife comes out clean.
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Frosting:
1 package cream cheese.
½ tablespoon melted butter
4 ½ cups powered sugar
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Soften cream cheese and butter until smooth and it peaks. Slowly add sugar.
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Good luck... let me know how it turns out for you.

Funny thing... I called my business "Boss Cakes." I started in 1978... my biggest competitor was Ms. Desserts.

Thank you for the recipe. I like carrot cake.

Boss Cakes is a good name!

It's tough work and stressful like nothing outside of actual combat, but if you're good at it and can handle it, very rewarding, though usually not in the financial sense. Being an executive chef would be great, you get to come up with the recipes, fine tune them, and turn them over to a brigade to actually produce and serve, but getting to the point where you can be an executive chef is a long, hard, road. I'll be honest, I load up on klonopin before I go into work, and I carry Xanax in my pocket in case things go really sideways; this isn't to keep me from freaking out if things get busy, it's to keep me from literally killing my boss when he decides that a simple mistake merits forty minutes of condescending abuse. Especially when it wasn't even my mistake.

Thanks everyone for your help. I had a talk with him and explained to him what an executive chef does. He decided that it wasn't the right position for him, because all he wants to do is cook, so he's aiming a little lower.

I wish all the best to him claymonster!

i have the ultimate sense of taste and smell. i started cooking one day and everything tastes so good. i can also tell if something is done cooking just by the way it smells.

however working in a crowded kitchen is never going to happen. i cannot even handle 1 extra person in the kitchen while i am cooking.