How Chocolate Is Made
Dark, Milk, White, Caramel and so many other flavours.
Chocolate comes in many different shapes, sizes and flavours,
but how is it made?
Making chocolate is a process. First you need to collect the cocoa beans,
which grow in pods on trees. It takes about 5 or 6 months until you
have a fully grown cocoa bean. Once you have collected your cocoa
beans you need to cover them and leave them to ferment for 5-7 days.
The next step is leaving them in the sun to dry for 6 days.
After the cocoa beans have been collected, they get weighed and
checked for quality. They get packaged and taken to a cocoa factory
for processing.
The next step in the chocolate making process is cleaning, cooling and
breaking of the nibs of the beans. The nibs are then ground into a
very fine liquor. That cocoa liquor can be transformed into cocoa
butter and powder.
This is the final stage. The making of the chocolate. Add together the
cocoa liquor, sugar, milk and cocoa butter. That mixture needs to be
continuously kneaded in a processor. That process is called conching.
It is what gives smooth texture.
Other ingredients can be added before delivery. But before delivery they
have to shape and package the chocolate. Then they deliver the chocolate
to the shops and be sold, and that is the end of the chocolate making process.
