enjoy. and i am also not a tv watcher. third, once the beans are all de-husked (no need for winnowing by the way) i put them in the stock cuisinart we had in the kitchen. i found that with the standard blade the beans will grind into a powder very quickly but will start to look damp from released cocoa...
using gramma's old-school hershey's cocoa powder method. a friend suggested that the milk-fat and the cocoa butter are homogenizing. however, this doesn't seem accurate to me, since the thickening is exactly the same with non-fat milk. this kind of problem is difficult to answer without actually seeing...
silk by weight of the final weight of the chocolate (unsweetened chocolate and honey combined) and i force cooled the chocolate so i didn't give the water to interact with the crystals and bloom. i weighed out my honey and warmed it up to - f. this is important so you can work quickly. i refined my cocoa...