
Origin, sourcing, sorting, and storing cacao; cacao roasting and winnowing (day one of the class coincides with our Cacao Roasting Workshop), the equipment + tools needed to set up a kitchen to make bean to bar chocolate; how to use a melanger; how to create a %-based formulation, the steps of batchcrafting a dark chocolate, understanding when a batch is ready; tempering with a trustworthy stress-free method.
How it works
Two fully-guided days of crafting bean to bar insights and hands-on making in Huntersville, North Carolina (outside Charlotte), co-taught in the chocolatory of Nostalgia Chocolate.
August 17 and 18, 2024. Daily from 8am until 5pm, with a ½-hour lunch break
Travel, lodging, and lunches are not included
Equipment used during the workshop, beans, chocolate tastings are included