For Sale / Savage Bros, Side by Side Melting and Tempering System / Alberta
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Hi, what was the price for the savage side by side melters?
jeremy@decorchocolates.com
thanks
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For Sale - 38 Inch Belt Coater PRICE REDUCED! - Seattle
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I've reduced the price....
Call with any questions
For Sale - 38 Inch Belt Coater PRICE REDUCED! - Seattle
Posted in: Classifieds F/S or Wanted
Yes Trent.
It is still available. Feel free to call me with any questions.
For Sale - 38 Inch Belt Coater PRICE REDUCED! - Seattle
Posted in: Classifieds F/S or Wanted
Reduced Price....
I posted this a while back but have been using it so I have not been eager to sell it. Now we have changed our process and the Belt Coater is sitting and once again we are ready to sell.
This 38 Inch Belt Coater is in very good (practically new) condition. This is a three phase unit with an fm50 phase converter so you can run this unit with full variable speed control from any single phase outlet. This all in one unit has lights, fans and a 12 jet water jacketed drip system set up with a 2 inch sanitary tri clover fitting.
The entire unit is mounted on a base frame with casters so that it can be moved and cleaned easily. This belt coater also comes with a ribbed polishing belt. The polishing belt (not pictured) can be changed in about a half hour.
This Belt Coater can handle batch sizes as large as 120 pounds for most centers and up to 150 pounds for a heavy center such as a dried fruit. Pictures can be seen at http://decorchocolates.com/beltcoater.aspx
$7,500
Jeremy
425-344-7737
updated by @Jeremy Rushane: 06/29/23 16:49:02
Dosing pumps & DIY options
Posted in: Tech Help, Tips, Tricks, & Techniques
Sounds like a fun project!!!! Let us know what system you come up with...
38 inch Belt Coater for sale
Posted in: Classifieds F/S or Wanted
Belt Coater is still available... Click the link for pictures. If interested, call me at 425-344-7737
38 inch Belt Coater for sale
Posted in: Classifieds F/S or Wanted
This 38 Inch Belt Coater is in very good (practically new) condition. This is a three phase unit with an fm50 phase converter so you can run this unit with full variable speed control from any single phase outlet. This all in one unit has lights, fans and a 12 jet water jacketed drip system set up with a 2 inch sanitary tri clover fitting. The entire unit is mounted on a base frame with casters so that it can be moved and cleaned easily. This belt coater also comes with a ribbed polishing belt. The polishing belt (not pictured) can be changed in about a half hour. This Belt Coater can handle batch sizes as large as 120 pounds for most centers and up to 150 pounds for a heavy center such as a dried fruit. Pictures can be seen at http://decorchocolates.com/beltcoater.aspx $10,000 Jeremy
updated by @Jeremy Rushane: 06/29/23 16:49:02
Looking for a Hilliard Little Dipper
Posted in: Classifieds F/S or Wanted
Sorry Nicole... I've been so busy...
I want to get $1100 for the chocovisions. I'll give you a call later today and answer any questions you have about it.
-Jeremy
Looking for a Hilliard Little Dipper
Posted in: Classifieds F/S or Wanted
Hi Nicole....
I remember selling you your Hilliard Dipper. I'm glad you love it!!!
I FOUND THE LID!!!!! I can Mail it to you if you want it!
I don't have another one at this time but I do have a couple of Chocovision Revelation X 3210's that I would be willing to part with. These are great machines and have a larger capacity than the Little dipper. I've got quite a few of them and use them daily.
Also, if interested, I have a Calico Cottage fudge kettle and a Belt Coater for sale. Beltt Coaters are for panning chocolate dragee and can be very fun and productive. The link for the belt coater is decorchocolates.com/BeltCoater.aspx
I'm looking for coating pans
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if anyone has some used coating pans that are sitting in a corner, let me know... Im interested.
jeremy@decorchocolates.com
updated by @Jeremy Rushane: 06/29/23 16:49:02
Problem with sun fading the chocolate.
Posted in: Tech Help, Tips, Tricks, & Techniques
This is what I did in our retail store... not through this company, but you get the idea... I paid $1200 to cover the front of my store (two 8x8 blinds) and had photographs printed on the blinds. one is of caramel apples and the other of dipped strawberries. so... when the sun is shining directly into my store and I have to lower the blinds.... (always in the early morning winter months.... i don't have to lower blinds in the summer because we have an awning that protects the windows....) I am still advertising products that I sell daily....
I have my employees lower them at night and then i roll them up at about 10 am sept oct nov.... 11am dec jan feb mar.... 10am apr may jun july and august they don't need to be lowered. It all depends on how the sun hits the front of your store.
morning sun is intense and damaging but i don't think i would want those shades down in the afternoon.... note to those opening new locations..... this is something you never think of when you are opening a new store.... "When does the sun hit my window?" Shades down often says CLOSED to your customers..... you want those shades down as little as possible.
even if there is snow on the ground outside, the sun can melt chocolate through the window. if the shades are down, the doors are open..... i don't care how cold it gets....
I hope this helps.... check out the link for an idea....
http://www.blindsgalore.com/WindowProduct.asp?id=709416&ph=36&pw=24&utm_medium=shoppingfeed&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=googleshoppingfeed&gclid=CIrX_qmY_bICFQjZQgodvnYAyQ
Panning Dark Chocolate
Posted in: Tech Help, Tips, Tricks, & Techniques
colin...
are you sure you pan is not overloaded? Just a thought.
-Jeremy
Chocolate Spraying
Posted in: Geek Gear - Cool Tools
JimI am interested in info in thatpneumatic spray gunJeremyJrushane@gmail.com
Chocolate Spraying
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does the spray head heat up on the electric spray gun? Compressed air moving through the head of a spray gun comes very close to freezing. Thisseizesthe chocolate making you use choice words and starts you looking over your shoulder to make sure no children are present.
I would love to have more info on that electric spray gun and the makeup of the parts....
SS?
Is the quality suitable for food????
Why doesn't the chocolate set up in the spray head?
Do you happen to have video or can you get some????
You might be on to some new way to save thousands if not hundreds if this is food grade and works.
Chocolate Spraying
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clay...
one of the best ways to make money, is to save money you don't have to spend. I build my own cutting wheels for a fraction of the cost of purchasing new. I built my first pan capable of about 10 pound batches which mounts to the front of a kitchen aid mixer (that drive shaft is great). I got the idea from a guy who had built a taffy puller using a kitchen aid front drive . I built my second pan capable of 65-70 pounds from a cement mixer and a hand pounded Stainless drum from India. (Karol Baugh neighborhood in Delhi is a great place you can have anything you want built.) I built my web application which emails me when orders come in, tracks my inventory and manages my spending... my computer tells me what I have to make today so that I never run my shelves empty and my product is always fresh. (thank you .NET and Visual Studio for the tools to do that)((that was about a $8,000 web app at no more cost than my own time)).
My point.......
Earn more money buy spending less.
This is why I use a coolbot.
The cool bot is a great tool and with a properly insulated room it is cost efective to use them as a full time walk in fridge. A panning room doesn't even really need to be insulated because you are only running the ac for short bursts of time while you are in there.
I know people who have been tricking ac units using heaters hooked up to thermostats for years. The cool bot is just the same concept (less that $50 worth of parts from your local hardware store) wrapped up in a pretty package.
As for me.... I decided to go with the cool bot rather than tinkering around with parts. I spent the $300 and hooked the whole thing up in less than two hours. THAT INCLUDES....
-cutting a hole in the wall for the ac unit
-installing a new breaker in my panel and running 220 for the ac unit
-installing the ac unit
-hooking up the cool bot and watching the temp in my panning room fall FAST
if you wat to use it for cold storage, a little bit of advice....
INSULATE THE FLOOR! I have had friendscompletelyrebuild their cool rooms because they didn't properly insulate thefloor
Chocolate Spraying
Posted in: Geek Gear - Cool Tools
Colin...
I'm panning everything I can! I find it addicting and meditative. I have only worked with dried fruit and solid centers and I am not up against the problem you are facing with your fragile berries.
Like I said before.... I am hand pouring 30kg batches of nuts or dried fruits and my build up time takes a little under an hour. Its a slow start trying to keep from getting doubles. but I don't try to fix all the doubles. I have kind of decided that 5% doubles is to be excepted. The nice thing is that doubles are larger and will remain on top of the product so you can always spot them.
I built my own panning room which I like to work in at about 50f - 55f (10c - 12c) It is basically a walk inrefrigeratorand makes all the difference in build up time. I framed the walls andceilingand insulated them with High density foam panels (the same type you would find in a walk in fridge or freezer... installed this normal home grade AC Unit and tricked the AC unit into pushing its cooling power much lower thanadvertised. I can get my panning room to about 38f (3c) in about a 40 mins. (too cold to work in even in a down jacket).
Spraying would save me that hour of standing over the pan if I could hook a sprayer up to sprayintermittently.
I would like to start a discussion with you on polishing. Are you getting a brilliant shine every time? Are you using a glazing compound of some sort? I can polish to a brilliant shine but sometimes it takes the product HOURS in the pan to get that shine. I have also polished in less than 30 minutes a few times. I would like to put our brains together and see if I can get this dialed into a science.
-Jeremy
Chocolate Spraying
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Colin...
let me know what you find out. I also am in the same situation. I am panning about 30kg batches using a 50kg chocolate melter and hand pouring all of it.
Jeremy
Manually Enrobing
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colin....
i tried a spray gun from the hardware store. I thought it was going to be a brilliant idea. The problem is that the spray head is not heated so the chocolate mixed with the cold air under pressure sets up inside the spray head.
Plus... when compressing the air, you are introducing much unwanted moisture.
Bottom line...
It doesn't work...
-Jeremy
Store Markup on Chocolate Bars
Posted in: Opinion
we make our own couverture bars in our retail store so our profit margin is VERY good... 3.3oz bars sell for $2.95 four for $10. And like Clay said about blending. I have been blending couvertures for over 18 years to get both percentages and flavors which I am looking for. It can be a lot of fun!
Something about keystoning you might want to consider.... There is shipping as well. All retailers will deal with this differently.
wholesale * 2 = retail ...(sometimes the retailer will "eat" the shipping)
(wholesale + shipping) * 2 = retail
(wholesale * 2) + shipping = retail
plug your wholesale number in there and you will find that the retail amount changes quite a bit on a case of bars. Understanding how your customer is going to do their own math may help you close the deal.