I am 60, I am #Vegan, and I just learned how to make chocolate from scratch.
This has been kept from us. It is eye-blinkingly easy. The effort : reward ratio is beyond what you can imagine, because everything you can imagine starts and ends with chocolate.
Nestlé, Hershey, Mars you motherfuckers, now I know Kung Fu.
Edit: Adding the recipe I started with. Sorry I didn’t put it here in the first place, we learn. https://www.asaucykitchen.com/homemade-chocolate-with-cocoa-butter/#mv-create-recipe
Tell us how, oh great one!
Tell us more, oh devine one.
@Dave_Goldsmith @goodthinking They are now forbidden from ever eating vegan again. An obligatory steak with every meal.
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I've just been looking aswell and that seems to be the only best option. Although we have Holland & Barrett in the UK, but they seem to have discontinued their two options.
Yes Please show us how!
Single Bean Chocolate is WAY interesting. They taste vegetal, revealing their plant origins, and makes you understand why most commercial chocolates are blended.
I took some varieties to a friends house to play a little taste test game. But their kids snarfed them all, inhaling them without tasting.
The more expensive it is, the faster the kids will plow through it.
@goodthinking Now read up on the cocoa trade and how its prepared.
You cannot avoid all evil.
@gqlen @goodthinking Not what Im doing here. All action is good action.
Do you know what slacktivism is? Are you insisting that only knowing half the picture is fine as long as you post about it on social media?
@shram86 Indeed. I have hopes for Ghana, specifically and selfishly (friends).
I try to pay attention, and I could write a book about the crimes of luxury. But what good’s a book?
Direct action is all that is left.
@shram86 @goodthinking then you do the best you can, gathering as much reliable information as is available to you, and communicating with your suppliers if even that is not up to snuff.
Shutting down helps no one. If we're going to try to make a better world, we need to do the work.
@goodthinking Tempering chocolate is a little beyond the average home cook though. A lot of work for small, single household quantities.
Every neighborhood should have a local chocolatier, like bakeries of old.
@lispi314 @alice You come out ahead. Not that much, but some. And you have to work, hence my “reward” comment. BUT
For me, at least: It’s way cleaner — a hundred fewer touchpoints between me, the farmers, and the served food — cleaner. That’s the value, for me, and I hope you find what works for you, too!
Yes, but have you made chocolate bars with powdered psilocybin mushrooms in them?
(Me neither, but I am gonna be doing it soooooooooooooon)
Often thought about looking into this and never got round to it, so thank you very much indeed! Super appreciated. 😊
"my bucket list was written in invisible ink"
I love that soo much. Happy further discovering ❤️
HAHAHAHA. Yes - thank you for carefully scientifically taking apart the constituent components of this bean......now watch me SMASH IT BACK TOGETHER with some sugar.
@TheBreadmonkey @afewbugs I’m sure I scared them off because I’m just a doofus, waving my arms around, but goddamn it:
Domain expertise. There is no substitute.
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Hey I get to use this quote twice this week ;)
https://youtu.be/hVEspFZCmmA?feature=shared&t=196
Just a case of reassembling the component parts in the correct sequence ;)
Dr Chocolate not nearly as powerful as Dr Manhattan though :D
@trainguyrom Almost sure you could, toward the end.
Or peppermint oil. Andes mints, on demand.
Note to self: Maybe this isn’t hell.
@helianthropy Snickers! I used to love the OG ones in the beforetimes. Thank you — trying a copycat of that would be pretty ambitious for me, I’ll be staying in my lane with Mounds and Reese’s copies for now :-D
If you’re buying it pre-made, Dr Bronner’s makes a huge deal about their farming ethics, palm oil sourcing, and so on. Really expensive, but delicious.
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