Do you have any videos showing how to make chocolate? I’ve looked all over and can’t find them.
I was just going over with my a member of my team how to announce our video series. Thank you for the absolutely perfect introduction.
Yep, you heard it right. We have videos on the way.
I’m going to go into full self deprecation mode and say that although they hopefully will do the job, they are not as polished and smooth as I might want. And in pretty classic Alchemist fashion, noting that I often communicate in great walls of text, I talk a lot in these videos. No. Really. A lot. So here is the official announcement:
For years I’ve been thinking that a video series on making chocolate would be a good complement to this site and to my weekly “Ask the Alchemist” series. Well, I finally got it done and today we are announcing the beginning of Video Tuesdays. Every Tuesday we’ll add a new video to our You Tube Channel until all 15 of them are posted. Think of it as an online correspondence course in how to make chocolate at home.
If you subscribe to the channel you’ll be alerted whenever a new video is posted. Today our first one is an overview of the Chocolate Making Process I’ve developed over the past 14 years.
There is the first video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi2RY8zqy9g&list=PLy4KS4Q1T9sVHwqhdiand0d-1k6yzioJq
Eventually these will all live on our site as well as on You Tube, but we’re waiting until our site gets a facelift later this year (yep, more foreshadowing there).
The videos that are queued up are as follows:
- Chocolate Making Overview
- How to pick your beans
- Behmor 1600 Roasting
- Oven Roasting
- Drum Roasting
- Cracking Beans
- Winnowing
- Making Chocolate Liquor
- Making Dark Chocolate
- Making Milk Chocolate
- Making White Chocolate
- Tempering Philosophy
- Cocoa Butter Seed Tempering
- Bowl Tempering
Plus one on how to change the belt on the Spectra Melanger.
Enjoy. And please let me know what else you would like to see.