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Adjustable bean cracker from a grape crusher
When I was in Italy, I saw the following in a chocolate-maker's workshop: It's a motorized grape crusher. The chocolate maker puts his beans...
@Clay Gordon started 11 years ago - replies: 9
Food safe glue?
Hello guys, while cleaning I broke my melangeur scraper which is plastic and I'm considering gluing it.I found out in the Internet that the best I...
@Miguel Pujols started 10 years ago - replies: 2
How long and how best store cacao nibs?
Hi,I have a limited amount of space and need to do various batches of cracking/winnowing to fill my 40 Lbs melangeur. My day job sometimes brings...
@Alek Dabo started 10 years ago - replies: 0
Temperature control in wet grinder during conching
ChocolateLife member Gap posted a discussion in the main forum about using a sous vide controller to control an external heat source to raise...
@Clay Gordon started 11 years ago - replies: 0
20kg DIY Chocolate Melter for about $200?
Melting chocolate is a challenge that many chocolate makers face and having a supply of melted chocolate on hand - at a known and precise...
@Clay Gordon started 11 years ago - replies: 21
Modifying a commercial rotisserie oven for roasting
Here's a discussion and here's another one about using commercial rotisserie ovens - like the kind you might see in a grocery store...
@Clay Gordon started 11 years ago - replies: 0
Chocolate hollow mold spinners
Hi everyone, marc forrat here. I'm a new member of TCL.I've been tired of paying crazy prices for equipment and have decided that since I have been...
@Marc Forrat started 10 years ago - replies: 2
Home Made Roaster
Hi, I am now planing to build a home roaster. I will probably make something that looks like one of those miniature home coffee roasters. What I...
@Ilya Snowdon started 10 years ago - replies: 2