Making Chocolate is a little more gross than you may expect...

Checkout my book! Flavorlabofficial.com Have you ever wondered how chocolate is made? Alright, let’s go from cacao pod to chocolate bar today on this super-intensive video. I am not going to lie, although this was a lot of fun, it was also a lot of hard work. In total, this process took me over 2 months, not because the process takes this long, but because I messed up a few times had to start over, as well as deal with some week-long camera issues that didn’t allow me to film. However in my folly, I learned a lot, and I hope to pass what I learned on so you don’t make the same pitfalls I did. Chocolate making is a very complicated and intricate process, but today, I am going to show you my simplistic attempt at making chocolate, however, even with my plebian attempt at chocolate, it still turned out really well.  Chocolate making has more or less 4 steps: 0:00 Intro 2:04 Fermentation 3:49 Drying and roasting 5:34 Grinding  7:59 Heating and forming ============= Full Recipe ================== https://www.flavorlab.xyz/recipes/cho... ============= Links ================== Fermenting Jars: https://amzn.to/3kirYYE Chocolate Mold: https://amzn.to/3xH99SI Mixing Bowls: https://amzn.to/3yZbEjA Mortar and Pestle: https://amzn.to/3zfhyxl Oven/Dehydrator: https://amzn.to/3wEOMEp Thermometer Spatula: https://amzn.to/3idvPDB Vitamix Blender: https://amzn.to/3rc7SAy Cuisinart Burner: https://amzn.to/3xLyRFC ============= Video Equipment ================== Camera: https://amzn.to/3i72XNm Lens: https://amzn.to/3eiODjx Lens Adaptor: https://amzn.to/3rji9uX Light: https://amzn.to/2UMK7TQ ============= Ingredients ================== 3-4 cocao pods 10% of the collected mass in granulated sugar 15% of the collected mass in cocao butter Disclaimer: Some links are affiliate links