19/07/2025
How many steps do you think there are between left & right cacao ? 🌬️
Well… They look very similar but there are at least 5 steps and 7 if you count what is required time wise with patience 🌬️
1. The cracked roasted beans have to be slowly put in the cacao melanger (volcanic stone grinding refiner)
2. For the next 10 to 20h depending on origin, I monitor parameters and be mindful of the evolution from nibs to liquid paste…
3. Pure cacao liquor is ready to be spread into specific molds before the machine gets cleaned up
4. A few hours or most of the time overnight is necessary to wait for the paste to harden into blocks
5. The blocks now ready to be cut in medium size pieces by hand
6. The pieces are sealed and placed in the refrigerator where they need to stay a few hours to get cool enough…
7. So that I can make them go through a cutting machine to get these tiny flakes!
So from start to finish, there are around 48hrs between these 2 cacao states! And this is without counting the steps before getting a batch of nibs ready and after getting a batch of flakes made, of course… Patience 🌙
