How do you roast raw cacao beans?
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Question by CoachCraig: How do you roast raw cacao beans?
How do you roast raw cacao beans and change them to chocholate? please ley me know. best answer wins 10 points!
Best answer:
Answer by Bob P
The process is much more complicated than you might think!
Look here:
http://www.cacaoweb.net/cacao-beans2.html
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Making Chocolate is quite complicated here an article on how its done
unlike coffee, cocoa beans don’t lend themselves to home processing.
In order get anything remotely pleasant from cocoa beans at home you’d need to:
(a) thoroughly clean the beans – after removing stones etc. we blast them with superheated steam. Not a practical proposition for the home user, and there is a quantifiable risk of infection from consuming a cocoa product which has not been properly “debacterised” so it really isn’t advisable to try processing cocoa beans at home
(b) dry and roast the whole bean – possible in a home oven I suppose, but not recommended as the shell is flammable. Particularly inadvisable in a gas oven. Industrial roasters are protected with deluge systems in case of fire – is your oven?
(c) separate the shell – i.e. “winnow” the beans. Smash them up with a hammer and throw them in the air in a breeze. The light shell will blow away, the heavier nib will fall back in your tray. Like separating wheat from chaff.
(d) grind the nib. This will make it liquefy – you have made “cocoa liquor”. This is going to make a *real* mess of your grinder. It’s unlikely any grinder you have at home can get the liquor as fine as the ones used in industry.
(e) alkalise it to adjust the flavour and colour. Extremely tricky to get right at home, so don’t even try this.
(f) separate the cocoa butter from the cocoa solids. You’ll need some sort of filter press. Industrial presses reach enormous pressures – I can’t think of anything you could put in your kitchen which could do this.
(g) give/sell the cocoa butter to someone who makes chocolate – you won’t be able to use it for anything.
(h) grind the press cake into a fine powder. Add to hot milk and add sugar to taste. As you can see, getting a pleasant drink out of a cocoa bean is a LOT more involved than getting one out of a coffee bean!
Or u can try these links
http://www.chocolatealchemy.com/200508-index.php
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0110012/made/made.htm
http://www.chocolatecurb.com/roasting-cocoa-beans-to-make-chocolate/chocolate-chocolate-clips/2007/07/06
http://www.waynesthisandthat.com/howtomakechocolateathome2.htm
ENJOY :-)