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No. Chocolate is also very much about the beans and finding the roast that best brings out the flavors in them, then figuring out what the best use for them is;
by SyzygistSix 5y ago
No. Chocolate is also very much about the beans and finding the roast that best brings out the flavors in them, then figuring out what the best use for them is; a blend, a single origin bar, milk chocolate, chocolate with something else or a flavor added?
Like coffee, the best chocolate does not need flavors added to it, although that can certainly be fun.
source - I was a chocolate maker for a small, high quality chocolate company in the US.
- h2odragon 5y agoSeems to me its all the breadth of beer with funkier, faster fermentation; and more opportunities to involve technology. So few other home uses for that kind of grinding and milling machinery, tho. I'm trying to think up anything else this could be turned to, and coming up with soaps, fireworks and flash powders, inks, paints, and pigments. Nothing food grade or wider niche. Home-made Brazil and cashew nut butters, maybe? now worse cleaning than chocolate, surely.
- simtel20 5y agoI flirted with the idea of getting a melanger for making peanut butter and tahini at home, but my blender hasn't burned out yet (yay blendtec) so I haven't needed to explore this with any urgency. If anyone can recommend a way to make home nut butters and tahini with less heat than a blender I'd love to know.
- ectopod 5y agoI've made peanut butter with my pestle and mortar. It didn't take long, but I was making small quantities.