from the best green coffee bean supplier, sweet maria's . in addition to selling meticulously cupped and rated beans of top quality, they also have a e-mail list for those who want to really get into roasting coffee and want to talk to other people of like mind. it is really a great list in that it...
its analogy time again. back a couple weeks , i described tempering in terms of baseballs (sugar) and bats (cocoa butter molecules) and that tempering was making a solid, locked together lattice of these. now you want to dissolve the sugar in water. on the molecular level, you dissolve something by surrounding...
lots of ways. i have long standing relationships with importers, farms and individuals selling cocoa. i also buy beans from chocolate makers that have brought in beans and have too many or wish to share. routinely farms contact me as do sellers that have found me on the web. basically i have no one avenue...
) starting points ask the alchemist video series recent videos contact help/search venezuelan barinas cocoabeans have arrived june , by founding alchemist i am going to keep this very short. after quite the wait, the new stock of fermented and unfermented venezuelan barinas criollo cocoabeans have...
with the summer months coming on, this was the perfect set of questions to answer. and i'm just going to dive into a number of related questions and answers. yes, we still ship cocoa butter when the weather is hot. yes, it may melt on the way to you. over the years i've learned to double seal the bags...
alchemist video series recent videos contact help/search new beans in stock september , by founding alchemist i hope everyone has had a fantastic summer and welcome to the beginning of fall. that means new cocoa and getting ready for the busy time of the year. and believe it or not, that means starting...
comment comment ask the alchemist # january , you mentioned i should keep adding cocoa butter when my milk chocolate batch is thick; if am making a kg batch and i keep adding more cocoa butter, then my final batch no longer becomes kg or is it that when am making a batch of kg, i should always make sure...