The whole process of chocolate manufacturing

In other words, chocolate may be the best friend of people all over the world.

Almost no one can resist the rich and smooth taste of chocolate and the happiness it brings after eating.

He explained the whole process of chocolate making. He's so hungry.

The man in the photo is Dom Ramsey. He is an expert in chocolate making and has his own chocolate studio in north London.

He explained the whole process of chocolate making. He's so hungry.

Dom once wrote a book about chocolate making. He is a celebrity in this industry.

He explained the whole process of chocolate making. He's so hungry.

Dom said that most of the chocolate in the world is produced by four or five candy giants.

Although mass-produced chocolate is constantly developing and expanding, people who really love chocolate invariably like small-scale and carefully selected processing processes.

He explained the whole process of chocolate making. He's so hungry.

Just recently, Dom showed us the whole process of making chocolate.

Making chocolate step by step from the source is really a huge artistic project. ...

First of all, the flower we see is a flower on the cocoa tree. Every chocolate you eat starts with such a small cocoa flower. ...

He explained the whole process of chocolate making. He's so hungry.

Cocoa flowers can germinate and grow directly from the trunk and larger branches of cocoa trees, and eventually develop into bright cocoa pods.

Because cocoa trees have strict requirements on the living environment, they can only live in places with high temperature and sufficient water all the year round. This photo was taken in Hawaii, the only place in the United States where cocoa is grown.

He explained the whole process of chocolate making. He's so hungry.

After the cocoa tree is planted, it will begin to bear fruit in about 3 to 5 years.

You can see that cocoa pods grow directly in the original flowering place. Because they can be open pollinated plants, even in the same cocoa forest, different varieties of cocoa pods may appear.

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Different varieties of cocoa beans have different pod colors, so when picking cocoa pods, these pleasing pods of various colors will appear.

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This is because different varieties of cocoa bean flowers show different colors due to genetic differences during pollination.

Cocoa pods are opened like this. There are about 25 to 40 cocoa beans in each pod, and each cocoa bean is wrapped in a layer of white pulp.

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The newly opened cocoa pods don't have any chocolate flavor, but they look like fruits, and the pulp tastes sweet.

He explained the whole process of chocolate making. He's so hungry.

Cut a cocoa bean and you can see the color of the cocoa bean inside.

Different varieties of cocoa beans have different colors. Most of them are purple when they are just picked and cut, while some varieties of cocoa beans are lighter in color, and some even look like white.

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On the farm of cocoa beans, people cut open the pods after picking them, simply remove some pulp wrapped outside the beans, and then start another important process-fermentation.

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Workers usually put fresh cocoa beans in a big container, usually a big wooden box. They spread the beans evenly, cover them with banana leaves and let them ferment for 5 to 7 days.

This fermentation process is very important for the formation of chocolate flavor, and the quality of chocolate is also closely related to the degree of fermentation.

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During the fermentation process, the sugar contained in the white pulp wrapped around cocoa beans will gradually decompose to produce an enzyme and acid. During the fermentation process, the temperature of beans will be kept at about 50℃. Continuous high temperature will kill the bacteria attached to the bean surface, make the bean surface dry and produce the proper brown color.

After 5 to 7 days of fermentation, these beans will be exposed to the sun for 7 to 10 days.

When the beans are dried in the sun, they should be turned over frequently. Some plantations will use tools to heat beans evenly, while in some primitive farms, people will go barefoot into the fields to dry beans and turn them through the movement of their instep.

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After drying, the coffee beans will be put into sacks and then shipped to chocolate factories all over the world.

He explained the whole process of chocolate making. He's so hungry.

Dom's chocolate workshop only recycles the best quality cocoa beans. Because they buy these high-quality beans at high prices from the areas with the best harvest every year, the best quality beans.

Dom never deals with middlemen, because he said that chocolate factories have to go through many middlemen when buying raw materials, so it is difficult to trace the origin and source of beans.

This greatly affects the taste and quality of the final chocolate product. Dom said to change this habit of the industry from himself.

For those big chocolate factories, all the processes are carried out in batches, while in Dom's chocolate workshop, they will manually screen and classify all the beans.

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Only through manual screening can we pick out the spoiled and broken cocoa beans, dig out the branches, stones and other impurities left over and mixed in the fermentation and drying process of cocoa beans bags, and ensure the final quality of chocolate.

After screening, the beans are baked in a drum oven. Dom's studio has a small bean roaster. They will bake beans in it for about 20 minutes to make the surface of beans drier, make the skin easier to be removed, and make the final chocolate taste smoother and free of impurities.

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Baked beans will be put into a peeler, which is also a small peeler. Through a series of operations, it will remove a layer of skin as thin as cicada's wings on the outside of cocoa beans, which will affect the taste of chocolate and will not help to form the taste of chocolate.

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The peeled cocoa beans can enter the formal grinding process. Every bean will be put into such a huge machine with granite wheels. These two granite rollers weigh 50 kilograms, and this is just a miniature version of the cocoa bean grinder in the chocolate factory.

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With the rotation of the granite roller, cocoa beans are gradually ground and the rich cocoa butter in beans is sucked out. About 50% of cocoa beans are cocoa butter, which is a fat that can melt near body temperature. Because the rotation of the drum drives the granite to rub and heat, the beans can reach the melting point in this machine.

He explained the whole process of chocolate making. He's so hungry.

This machine will run for at least three days every time it is started. In order to ensure that every bean has been completely crushed and separated, cocoa butter will make cocoa pulp in the smoothest state, and grinding must last for three days to make the final chocolate taste smooth.

This is the appearance of cocoa beans after two days of grinding, which looks like the melting of chocolate we often see.

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The heat generated by continuous exercise and grinding can remove the bitterness and astringency of cocoa beans at the same time, so that chocolate gives off a natural taste. Dom said that the cocoa pulp made from cocoa beans produced in different places has its own unique flavor.

Grinding for about three days. We need to put these liquids into two other smaller grinders according to different tastes, and one of them adds milk powder to make milk chocolate.

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The other one only added some extra cocoa butter and sugar, and it produced dark chocolate.

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Finally, the processed liquid is poured into the mold, and these liquids will be left like this for several weeks, which is an aging process and helps to further stimulate the flavor of chocolate.

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Chocolate looks very attractive at this time.

He explained the whole process of chocolate making. He's so hungry.

After a few weeks, the chocolate was taken out, and the workers raised the temperature of the chocolate paste to such a smooth liquid state and poured it into the mold. Then put it in the refrigerator for a few hours, and you can easily demould it.

He explained the whole process of chocolate making. He's so hungry.

The finished chocolate looks like this.

He explained the whole process of chocolate making. He's so hungry.

Chocolate produced by Dom Studio is very popular in many famous restaurants in London and even in Britain. Chefs like to make all kinds of desserts with their chocolates.

He explained the whole process of chocolate making. He's so hungry.

He explained the whole process of chocolate making. He's so hungry.

Looks hungry. ...