MY OWN CHOCOLATE BAR How I Did It
MY OWN CHOCOLATE BAR How I Did It Presented by Amy Singh at the 6th Annual New York Chocolate Show
I WROTE TO MANY CHOCOLATE COMPANIES
The experts told me: Sorry, but you can’t make your own chocolate!
It’s too complicated You need big factory machines You need years of experience It’ll come out gritty and bad
WHAT I DID...
Chocolate comes from TREES NY BOTANICAL
MY CACAO TREE
MY FAVORITE BOOK
EQUATOR
VENEZUELA
MY MOM IS FROM GUYANA
CACAO TREE
CACAO POD
CACAO BEANS
FERMENTING
Contacted Maricel and told her about my project MY FRIEND MARICEL PRESILLA
Hacienda Concepcion Trinitario beans Venezuela
NEED ROASTING
FACTORY ROASTER
HEAT ROASTING
(Photo of salad basket)
MY ROASTER
TEMPERATURE TIME 210 deg. F 225 deg. F 240 deg. F 10 minutes 15 minutes 20 minutes
JUDGE BY SMELL
(photo of bean split open to see inside) INSIDE THE BEAN
(Photo of a bean with shell being peeled off) why you have to get it off SHELL CACAO
FACTORY WINNOWER
BREAK THE BEANS
MY WINNOWER
SHELLS
(photo of beans after winnowing) CACAO NIBS
(Photo: Amy using grinder) GRINDING
BEFORE
AFTER
SIFTING
GRITTY MY FIRST EXPERIMENT
MICROSCOPE
MY PARTICLES WERE TOO BIG 500 MICRONS
YOUR TONGUE CAN FEEL THEM
FACTORY CHOCOLATE PARTICLES 20 MICRONS
(photo of factory refiner) FACTORY REFINER
ROLLERS CRUSH THE PARTICLES
MY PASTA MACHINE HAS ROLLERS
I MADE THEM TOUCH
THIS IS MY REFINER
MY CHOCOLATE ALMOST 20 MICRONS
MY CHOCOLATE 56% Cacao 56% Sugar 44% Vanilla <1% INGREDIENTS
VANILLA BEANS
COCOA BUTTER
SUGAR
(photo of factory concher) FACTORY CONCHES
CONCHING
MY CONCHER
START CONCHING
10 HOURS
TEMPERING
MY FRIEND ANAIS
MOLDING
SNAP
AROMA
DESIGNING MY WRAPPER
MY WRAPPER
What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. -Henry David Thoreau
MARICEL TASTED MY CHOCOLATE
SHE LIKED IT
MY FRIENDS PASCAL & MARCEL
MY FRIEND ROBERT LINXE
MY FRIEND PIERRICK
MY DREAMS Pierrick - University of Chocolate Maricel - write my own book Robert Linxe - visit Paris Share what I learned Make more chocolate
MY OWN CHOCOLATE BAR How I Did It
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