combinations of horizontal and vertical movement are used to draw arbitrary lines and curves in a single action, in contrast to printers which usually scan horizontally across the page. colour plots can be made by using more than one pen. older plotters required a separate pen for each colour and the pens...
- years with very minor staling whole roasted cocoa beans - - months with a little more staling roasted cocoa nibs - - weeks with just a touch more staling. winnowing you don't want to do the blow dryer method you need to make sure you cocoa beans are fully cool before winnowing. my rule of thumb is...
it is about testing. mix some of your extract in with some cocoa butter and see if they dissolve together. if they do, you are good to go. if not, and in some cases they may not if there is too much water, you have to try something else. that something else can indeed be adding the extract to your nibs...
to % nibs. refine hours and try it again (or just remove some hours) at hours. what you are most likely going to find is that once you have made a bunch of chocolate you are going to think back and realize you no longer have those questions you had at the beginning. no one will have told you the answers...