The diagram explains the process for the making of chocolate. There are a total of ten stages in the process, beginning with the growing of the pods on the cacao trees and culminating in the production of the chocolate. To begin, the cocoa comes from the cacao tree, which is grown in ...
Confectioners using a pug mill, or mixing pan in Fry's Victorian chocolate factory, 1892. This was started by Joseph Fry who figured out how to make the world's first chocolate bar. duncan1890/Getty Images Nobody knows when the first person looked at the cacao tree and decided to eat ...
The percentage given on the wrapper of a chocolate bar is how much of the bar comes from cacao, as fat and solids. Sothis page explains the steps followed to make dark chocolate, using just cacao and sugar and cocoa butter (if the maker so chooses). When Imake chocolate at home, I co...
This handy cooking with chocolate guide from Great British Chefs explores various fascinating ways of cooking chocolate.
The pottery in question was dated as far back as 3300 B.C., making it the oldest evidence of chocolate being used. The way in which the cacao was discovered suggests that the Mayo-Chinchipe people of the region were using it to make a beverage — perhaps the first ever hot chocolate....
It is full of delicious, hands-on activities—from learning about states of matter while making popsicles to discovering how harvested cacao pods become chocolate while making some delightful chocolate-dipped cookies, and so much more. Check out Edible Science in the How Wee Lear...
The way in which the cacao was discovered suggests that the Mayo-Chinchipe people of the region were using it to make a beverage — perhaps the first ever hot chocolate. While we now like to enjoy this treat on a cold winter's evening, there is a good chance that it was used in a...
While at the organic cacao farm hosting your visit, you’ll meet the farmer in charge. He is happy to answer questions, whether they concern the history, processing or folklore surrounding chocolate. You’ll examine the trees and pods that bring forth the beans, grind them on a stone and ...
Each tree can yield about 20-30 pods per year, and it takes one tree’s entire annual harvestto make roughly a pound of chocolate. Cutting down a cocoa pod from a tree in Mexico. Once harvested, the cocoa pod is cracked open and the rind is discarded; the pulp and seed pods are wh...
Learning to make chocolate in Costa Rica. Here, the cacao pods. Grinding the cacao beans for the chocolate, Costa Rica. The timing worked perfectly because I was accepted on an Australian bushfire volunteer project in mid-March as a stopover, and I secured a seasonal job for April working ...