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What are the steps for manufacturing chocolate? |
Grown Harvested Fermented Drying and Cleaning Roasting and Cracking Grinding Conch;;ling Mixed Tempered Molded Wrapped |
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What are the two broad categories for cocoa beans? |
Fine/Flavor Bulk/Ordinary |
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At what temperature are cocoa beans roasted? |
250-320 |
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What is cocoa liquor? |
A thick dark paste created during the grinding stage, in which the nibbs are crushed and transformed from solid chunks. It is a semisolid mixture of cocoa butter and cocoa solids. |
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What is cocoa butter? |
The edible cocoa fat extracted from cocoa beans. |
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What is conching? |
The stage in which the chocolates liquor's texture is further refined. The chocolate mixture is put through a series of heavy rollers, which continuously agitate and smear the mixture against a solid surface. |
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What is tempering? |
The process of heating, cooling and agitating chocolate in order to refine its appearance and mouthfeel. |
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What are the signs of a good temper |
Shrink, Snap, Shiny, Smooth mouthfeel, Solid |
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What is couverture? |
High quality chocolate. Comprised of at least 32 percent cocoa butter, cocoa solids and sugar. It has a deep glossy appearance. |
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Explain the tabling method. |
Start at room temp and heat chocolate to 113-122. Pour up to 3/4 of the chocolate onto a marble surface and contentiously agitate the chocolate until is cools to 81. Scrape and add back into the bowl. Stir and then heat up to 83-90, depending on what kind of chocolate is being used. |
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What is the ice bath method? |
Heat chocolate to 113-120 and then put bowl in ice bath. Remove and stir until it reaches 81. Then rewarm to 83-90. |
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What is seizing? |
A reaction that occurs when water is added to chocolate. Tiny sugar and cocoa particles absorb water, causing them to separate from the liquid cocoa butter. |
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What is cocoa powder? |
Unsweetened cocoa powder made form crushing cocoa nibbs and removing the butter. |
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What are cocoa nibbs? |
Cocoa beans that have had their hard, outer shell removed. |
