How to Savor Chocolate – Enjoying the Experience of Tasting
Tasting chocolate for pleasure results in wonderful discoveries. It truly is an excellent way to explore and expand your preferences. For certain, no two people taste flavors or grasp textures in the same way. An excellent way to experience chocolate is to taste one type of chocolate at a time, for example, bittersweet chocolate, …
How Chocolate Is Made – The Guittard Way
Below are excerpts from Guittard on how they go about their chocolate making process: Growing High Quality Cacao High quality chocolate starts in shaded, jungle-like forests of cacao trees, so Guittard works closely with cacao growers to develop desired chocolate flavors in the beans. Growers carefully manage the health and development of the delicate trees, …
Recipe – Valrhona Sorbet Fraise
500 g strawberry pulp (10% sugar added) 150 g caster sugar 60 g glucose powder 290 g mineral water 3 g stabilizer SL64 Heat the water.When the temperature reaches 40°C, add the sugars and the stabilizer. Bring to the boil. Cool rapidly to 10°C. Leave to mature in a refrigerator overnight. Add the defrosted strawberry …
Lindt Chocolatiers Share Their Advice
Lindt chocolatiers are some of the most dedicated in the world. Below are some of the sage words some of their most experienced Master Chocolatiers to anyone interested in pursuing the art: Treat the chocolate with respect, because it can be extremely temperamental. - Ann For anyone aspiring to enter the profession they should pursue good …
Plantations Chocolate – History and Details
Q: Is Vintage Plantations Chocolates a “Bean to Bar” chocolate? A: Vintage Plantations Chocolates’ philosophy is to work with farmers who have decided to be certified from the Rainforest Alliance and take them by the hand and add value to their crops so they can make a better living. Hence, they can manage to live …
