and rubber. indeed, owing to its fertile land, the west african country has established itself as a major exporter of a wide range of raw agricultural products. at the same time, the government aims to secure the sector's economic and environmental sustainability through measures such as expanding local...
ask the alchemist video series recent videos contact help/search updates daily musings and writings from the alchemist viewing entries in cocoabeans comment ask the alchemist # february , we are starting a new bean to bar factory in the industry so i would like to know what is the best cocoa nibs there...
growing on me, but it is just a bizarre experience each time i bite into a piece. i love questions and tales like this as it gives me so much to touch on and discuss. this will be a re-visit of roasting in the behmor (and in general) and how that relates to my warnings and admonishments for various beans...
more than years. the aztecs ground the dried beans to a powder and made a delicious drink by mixing the cocoa powder with water and herbs. later the drink was sweetened with honey or sugar and today sweetened cocoa powder is mainly mixed with milk. in , cocoa is grown in more than countries. most cocoa...
water is amazing stuff. hydrogen bonding. it's why insects can walk on water. surface tension. and that bonding just totally gets in the way of your cocoa butter moving freely around, and tempering nicely. and a little goes a long way. you can no longer push over your stack of balls and bats and gum....
bean/nib/brewing cocoa products may not work or work oddly. the plan for strangeness is between - pst, but being strangeness, it could continue all day. none of the upgrades should keep you from ordering if you wish. free shipping the conditional free shipping offer that i tried out for february was...
as outlandish as it seems, what i suggest is using the behmor as it was designed and intended. call me crazy. the whole point of the behmor is to give you a way to roast in a simple and repeatable manner and of course, have properly roasted beans at the end. and that is what it does. your only need is...
. across the board, i've cut the existing prices almost % from the base price and only about % higher than the price for whole bags. for instance, that takes lbs of ivory coast from $ /lb to $ /lb if you get lbs. so far, this is only valid for whole, unroasted beans, the key being that they take very...