tree. this is a once a year crop? it grows continuously but this is the peak season. try that. put one in your mouth. bite it and see the nibs inside? those are the coco anybody else. cocoa anybody else 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. our chocolate bar sells for a nosebleed price that s high by even premium chocolate
this is the peak season. try that. put one in your mouth. bite it and see the nibs inside? those are the coco anybody else. cocoa anybody else 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. our chocolate bar sells for a nosebleed price that s high by even premium chocolate standards. where does the money go? most importantly to me and eric, are we doing a good thing? here s how it breaks down.
really kooky looking pods. when they come off of the tree, they sort of look like someone glued them to the side of the 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 what we call commercial chocolate. our chocolate bar sells for a nosebleed price that s high by even premium chocolate standards. 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.
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 what we call commercial chocolate. our chocolate bar sells for a nosebleed price that s high by even premium chocolate standards. where does the money go? most importantly to me and eric, are we doing a good thing?
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. our chocolate bar sells for a nosebleed price that s high by even premium chocolate standards. 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 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?