I'm accumulating a LOT of cocoa cake and have not been able to find anyone local that is willing to pulverize it. Any suggestions for an inexpensive solution? I easily have 400 lbs of cake and a lot of demand for the cocoa powder!
At the moment we're pulverizing small amounts with a food processor and varying size sieves but it's ridiculously time consuming.
Ideally the solution would be under $1k.
Where are you located?
We have a pin mill and hammer mill.
-Daniel
Dan@brooklyncacao.com
We've emailed before. I'm Carlos Eichenberger of Danta Chocolate in Guatemala.
Please send specs and prices to the email address used for previous communications.
Hi Carlos,
400 pounds is not a lot 
Our hammer mill can process 8 tons an hour...
Here is a smaller version of the Mikro hammer mill many large chocolate companies use, for sale on ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/MIKROPUL-HAMMERMILL-MODEL-2TH-/280283028196?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item41422b9ae4
Maybe the seller will take a lower offer?
Best,
Daniel
these guys can get you a solution for about $3k
Yes, for some people 400 lbs might be a pittance, but to me, it's a lot. And I was wrong, we have about 1000 lbs already 
Still, those mills all seem to be geared towards much larger production scales
Thanks anyway for the input!
Oh, how about this guy? $1k http://cgi.ebay.com/Micro-Hammer-Cutter-Mill-Spex-cat-5200-Culatti-AG-/370488838858?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5642db0aca
This tiny unit will work but will take you a long time to go through 1000 pounds and you will need to put the cake through a pin mill first as you need to feed this hammer mill with pea sized chunks...
go for a bigger unit.
same unit cheaper but without extra screens:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Thomas-Wiley-Standard-No-3-Mill-Grain-Feed-Laboratory-/310298201392?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item483f36cd30
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