Making Chocolate
23 July 2009 in FactoryWe’ve put up a short little video at YouTube of us making chocolate. We also have some photos of our chocolate making.
We’ll have more pictures and videos over the next few weeks.
The process starts out with Art weighing the cocoa nibs and putting them into our first melangeur.
We use this melanguer (which we just put into production this winter) to do an initial grind of our cacao nibs.
After the nibs are ground down to about the consistency of peanut butter we put them in our other melangeur and add sugar and vanilla. After it grinds some more we have what is called chocolate liquor. While that is grinding we can add more nibs to the first melangeur.
We then fill large 5 gallon buckets by hand and pass the ground chocolate liquor through a roll refiner. This does a final grind getting our particle size down to around 15 microns is size. (A human hair is about 100 microns in size)
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Looks delicious. What is the weight of one bar?
Each bar is 2oz.
Hello,
I’ve looked on your site, but I could not find any nutritional information about your bars. Could you please tell me how much sugar, how many calories, fiber and carbohydrates are in one serving? Also, do you plan on making any bars that are higher than seventy percent cocoa.
Thanks,
-Eugene
Hi Eugene. That’s a good idea. I’ve put up a post with that information.
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Very interesting process indeed!Quite impressive machinerie.How long does it take to make a batch and which sort of quantity are you processing?
For just the making of the chocolate (not the molding or packing) it typically takes about a week or so. The quantity really depends upon the time of year and the quantities we have in storage. As you can see by the size of the machinery we make the chocolate in fairly small batches.