Ready to embark on a chocolate-making adventure? Great, but first you need tools! Professional chocolatier Simon Knott explains what chocolate making machines and equipment you need for your new hobby or home enterprise, plus tips for buying the best quality tools for your needs.

Chocolate mass is made from fat or fat containing ingredients – usually cocoa butter and liquor, sometimes milk fat and particles, usually sugar, cocoa solids and sometimes dry milk products.

Tempered chocolate has to be heated to the temperature of chocolate inside the melting tank. Use decrystallization tube for the heat exchanging purpose. Melted chocolate inside the melter hayat be transfered to storage tank so equipment to be ready for the next melting batch.

Watch careful hamiş to burn them because they don’t get crispy. They are gooey and delicious and would be incredible dipped in that white chocolate in the picture!  

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We've come a long way and it's much simpler to make chocolate at home than it once was. So just take your time. Ask questions. Read and use that brain! We're always here if you need help. 

This very unique machine resurrects the traditional method of conching and grinding at the same time, bey we know it from the Lindt longitudinal conch1.

The new replacement tumbler showed up earlier this week so I takım it up to refine some sugar. I put the about three cups of sugar and three cups of SS shot in a 2 quart glass jar.

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Typical cleaning time. (this incudes both a hot water wash down with detergent and hand cleaning as required, followed by the time for the machine to dry ready for the next product)

Think carefully about your needs in terms of product properties, taste, flow properties, economy and flexibility

An alternative method to produce chocolate is using a ball mill where the mass is milled and sheared at the same time. Although cocoa liquor is usually ground by ball mills, those are derece popular for chocolate mass Chocolate DOUBLE TUBE BALL REFINER in the European industry. Nevertheless those systems are commonly used worldwide. The production is closed, which ensures hygienic processing and prevents contamination. Industrial-scale ball mills work continuously.

Keep the chocolate flowing and ready whenever you need it with a melting tank. Specifically designed to maintain a constant supply of melted chocolate, we have melting tanks available in various tank capacities from both Selmi and Massa.

This kaş of rolling pins is a Food52 Community favorite for a reason: Designed by two bakers who were searching for a more functional rolling pin, these wood pins come in different sizes customized to what kind of dough you’re rolling out.