at Tue, 02 Nov 2004 20:10:25 GMT in >,
(Cox news) wrote :

>None of the local stores seem to carry cocoa butter, and I wanted to buy
>some to make my own chocolate. Is there a good online source?
>

Chocosphere (http://www.chocosphere.com) carries it, but how much do you
know about making chocolate and how prepared are you for the enormous
amount of time and labour it entails? I have made exhaustive posts on this
in the past and if you look through them you'll see that making your own
chocolate at home will turn out to be a lengthy, tricky, equipment-
intensive process requiring both ingenuity and skill and generally leading
to poor results initially, which you can refine into good results only
after multiple attempts. It's definitely an *advanced* process, and if you
are attempting this in order either to improve on the chocolates you've
tried to date or to introduce some unique feature you haven't found in
chocolates you know about, know now that your experiments will probably
meet with little initial success. You'll quickly discover that it is best
to buy a chocolate from another manufacturer, and be aware that most
special dietary needs (diabetic, allergic to nuts, soy products, dairy) can
be met with chocolates being produced today. This is more of a project for
those genuinely interested in learning about the process than those looking
for immediate results.

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Alex Rast

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