how to make Chocolate

Have you ever wondered how chocolate is made?
Alright, let’s go from cacao pod to chocolate bar today on this super-intensive video. I am not going to lie, although this was a lot of fun, it was also a lot of hard work.

In total, this process took me over 2 months, not because the process takes this long, but because I messed up a few times had to start over, as well as deal with some week-long camera issues that didn’t allow me to film. However in my folly, I learned a lot, and I hope to pass what I learned on so you don’t make the same pitfalls I did.

Chocolate making is a very complicated and intricate process, but today, I am going to show you my simplistic attempt at making chocolate, however, even with my plebian attempt at chocolate, it still turned out really well. 

Chocolate making has more or less 4 steps:
0:00 Intro
2:04 Fermentation
3:49 Drying and roasting
5:34 Grinding 
7:59 Heating and forming

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3-4 cocao pods
10% of the collected mass in granulated sugar
15% of the collected mass in cocao butter

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[chickenjirou]

whoever first made chocolate really said “trust the process”

[MerkinMuffly]

Weird that chocolate is white and Vanilla is black.

[Brakathor]

I bought a couple of high end chocolate bars on sale today for a dollar a piece. Boy do I feel like a sucker, now that I know I could have made my own in just 6 hours of grueling labor.

[BateMasterJeff]

Who even discovers these things and then realizes that it’s actually edible? It’s amazing

[pandamonium]

To the brave individual who first cracked one of these open and said: "I'm gonna eat that..."

[guitarem]

Lets be honest, chocolate was invented because like everything else, someone tried making alcohol out of it and didn't know what to do with the leftovers

[Hisgraceme]

For the grinding of the seeds into a fine powder I suggest using a coffee grinder.

[therandomizer]

No, what most people didn't know is the actual taste of the fruit itself when it's fresh. Try one you wouldn't regret it. It tastes kind of similar to a Philippine fruit called guyabano but on a mellow side.

[foxydoesclips]

"Chocolate making is hard"


Willy Wonka: I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that.

[AlanChikinChow]

How did the first person to make this even know how to do this

[kikyyy]

I am Indonesian and lived in the countryside when I was kids. I remember, me and my friends, we often ate the cocoa seeds like a candy and spit out the seeds after the sweet sour white part outside disappeared. We picked it from the neighbor’ garden. The fruit make me feel nostalgic. Nice video btw!

[BigSplenda]

8:51 after a week and a half working on creating your dark chocolate from scratch....add a piece of dark chocolate!!🤣🤣😩

[jaisuriyar]

It was not at all disgusting. It's actually satisfying.

[johnnyjacksted]

“Making this food is more disgusting than you think”

*And I don’t care because it tastes good*

[FuriousMaximum]

Dang. Prices on chocolate seem real cheap now given how labor intensive it is.

[ARE.]

"making choco is a disgusting process"

*Goes to kitchen to get chocolate*

"This is where the fun begins"

[The_Horizon]

I thought that was a bug in the thumbnail

[butler]

Have we tried doing that with any other fruit? Maybe we're missing out on some amazing flavors.

[danzafrir]

So impressive that you did this on your own, and really gives you a profound appreciation to the art of chocolate making and the incredible cultures who first cultivated this fascinating plant.

[--Nobody]

“Just...trust me on this...”
-The first person to ever make chocolate.