We spent all week anxiously watching for tracking updates on our new bags of Madagascar beans as they made their way across the country. Finally, on Friday at 6pm, George, the freight truck driver, pulled up to our garage lab with five new bags. We were a little...
We just started another batch of Venezuelan. Here’s what the ground up nibs (aka cocoa liquor) look like before adding the sugar: And here’s what the chocolate looks like just after adding the sugar: After a few days, the lumps will be gone and everything...
I’ll admit it, I’m a sucker for fortune cookies. There’s something about the bonus cookie at the end of a meal that I can’t resist. So, when fortune cookies were being passed out after dinner with my girlfriend and her family one night, I...
We’re down to our last 100 bars of Madagascar. We’ll have a few for sale at this Thursday’s Mission Community Market, but we will probably run out soon thereafter. For a little while, you may be able to find some at nearby retail locations,...
Rather than putting the nibs straight into a melanger (the machine we use to combine the nibs and sugar into chocolate), we use a peanut grinder to turn the nibs into a paste first. We recently upgraded this first stage grinder to a new one. The...
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