Forum Activity for @Aura

I found this thread interesting.  We have been making approx 80lbs of chocolate a week in two santhas.  We always pre grind the nibs using a champion juicer but we are looking at the next step.  I would agree that it comes out as a paste and not a liqour and, yes it does harden over time.  As obviously it would.  i know other bean to bar makers using peanut butter grinders and would like to hear more feedback on this.  Price wise 2.5k is a very little investment, but am open to other options to scale up and automate more.  I tried to do a search to find out what other small bean to bar makers are using.  

very interested

interested sent you an email

my email is aura@ambrosiapastry.com

please email me so we can discuss further.  

is this still available?

add me to list too

aura@ambrosiapastry.com  and location please

I am very interested too

where are you located?

@ben thanks.  How much chocolate can you temper in a day and how easy is clean up?

Hi, if this topic has already been covered please forgive. 

What temoering machine do you use? What do you like and don't like about it? 

Hi, I'm looking for small printed boxes that I can ship my chocolate in but then can become a display rack for the bars.  Any online companies people have used for this?

 @ben which temperer do you have

Yes I meant prima.  Our reservations on the batch machines is the need to seed them.  Thanks for all this info.  very helpful

We too are in Canada and we looked at the air4 but it's a wheel and requires seeding method which with 8 origins seems like a challenge to have tempered chocolate in every variety always on hand.  

We put our roasted shells in our compost that we use on our garden beds.  Is this unwise?

I'm curious for this answer to as we are in the same boat.  We currently have about 11 origins.  We are leaning towards the prime.  Any thoughts on this size?

The Edison bulbs are $11 at restoration hardware

We are a bean to Bar Maker in Canada who should be added to this list

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