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really kooky looking pods as they just come off the trunk of the tree. they sort of look like someone glued them on to the side of a tree. this is a once a year crop? it grows continuously but this is a peak seasons. try that. put one in your mouth. bite it and see the nibs inside? those are the cocoa nib. where does chocolate come from? the bean. okay. here s where chocolate comes from. the trees produce pods. you split open the pods and take out the beans. the buyer sun drys the beans, then roasts them. after roasting, the beans are extracted from their shells and ground up, producing chocolate liqueur. mix this concentrate with milk, sugar, cacao butter and you get what we call commercial chocolate. now, our chocolate bar sells for a nosebleed price that s high by even premium chocolate standards.
working these mountains over 40 years. they re absolutely beautiful when they start out. really kooky looking pods when they come off the tree. they sort of look like someone glued them to the side of a tree. this is a once a year crop? it grows continuously but this is a peak seasons. try that. put one in your mouth. bite it and see the nibs inside? where does chocolate come from? the bean. okay. here s where chocolate comes from. the trees produce pods. you split open the pods and take out the beans. the buyer sun drys the beans, then roasts them. after roasting, the beans are extracted from their shells and ground up, producing chocolate liqueur. mix this concentrate with milk, sugar, cacao butter and you get
ground up, producing chocolate liqueur. mix this concentrate with milk, sugar, cacao butter and you get what we call commercial chocolate. now, our chocolate bar sells for a nosebleed price that s high by even premium chocolate standards. so where does the money go? most importantly to me and eric, are we doing a good thing? here s how it breaks down. the raw cacao costs one chunk. labor, the inner sleeve, this much. design, box, packaging, this much. various sundry equipment and miscellaneous, another small chunk. chris, me and eric get a slice out of every bar. that leaves this much, which the retailer takes. chef bleeding heart hippie here has already convinced me to give whatever meager profits we make off our first bar to a local charity. what s unusual about these pods? these beans? extremely high quality
the buyer sun drys the beans, then roasts them. after roasting, the beans are extracted from their shells and ground up, producing chocolate liqueur. mix this concentrate with milk, sugar, cacao butter and you get what we call commercial chocolate. now, our chocolate bar sells for a nosebleed price that s high by even premium chocolate standards. so where does the money go? most importantly to me and eric, are we doing a good thing? here s how it breaks down. the raw cacao costs one chunk. labor, the inner sleeve, this much. design, box, packaging, this much. various sundry equipment and miscellaneous, another small chunk. chris, me, and eric each get a