This machine appears to be dying. I could fix it and live with the design flaws.
Either way, I have to share the label on this toggle switch.
Daniel Haran
- 123 Followers
- 213 Following
- 774 Posts
Applying tech @ Chocolats Monarque
A lot of us in the industry, seeing this image from 1763, immediately exclaim "WHAT? That's a press!"
Nothing else in a chocolate factory would look like that, it looks like other presses used in other industries... and the only plausible thing you'd do with that in a chocolate factory is press out fat.
Van Houten was born in 1801 and claimed this invention in 1828.
Making a 70% sugar and 30% cacao butter mixture to adjust a previous recipe. This is probably at the limit of what this machine can handle before it breaks / becomes a smoke machine.
Just paying more is not sufficient, but anything that doesn't start there is, simply, bullshit.
After years of not even keeping with inflation, prices are finally moving, almost doubling recently to reach $4400 a ton.
More concretely: the cost of the cacao in a 100g bar at the grocery store was about $0.25 last year, and could be $0.45 this year. Prices will go up a bit, most consumers won't even notice, but a million farmers could be temporarily lifted out of poverty.
I'm all for upcycling, but this product by Voyage Foods sounds like trash:
"Introducing a cocoa-free chocolate bar that upcycles unused grape seeds from wine production in Napa Valley in California."
Never mind you can't legally call this chocolate because it contains no cocoa, or that it probably tastes like shit - this is a solution in search of a problem.
We can't solve wicked problems in cacao farming countries by trying to eliminate demand for the products they sell.
The trend of adding gold leaf to expensive food is tacky af at the best of times, but gilding the product of child slavery is simply obscene.
Welcome email sends me to this page, with "Première connexion?" below the fold.
A fractal UX / onboarding / marketing / tech cluster fail.
That's a portal for a CAD $36 billion market cap company, so quick fixes that increase retention and upselling by just 1% have a massive impact.
The brokenness of modern capitalist institutions is frankly baffling.
Just got wrappers for the maple bars... heirloom Maya Mountain Cacao with local maple sugar.
Next up will be a maple and tonka bar, with cacao from Kablon Farms in the Philippines. Given the tonka that bar would not be legal in the USA, because the FDA won't correct a silly rule from decades ago.
Perhaps if you have your head stuck way up where it lacks oxygen, you could see a species inventory as the first and necessary step towards saving more.
Otherwise this pollyannaish exercise is wilful blindness and intellectual dishonesty.
Saving species is mostly about dealing with climate change, invasive species and habitat protection. None of these actually require an inventory of species.
Trying to do a quick survey of Covid data in Québec.
-Excess mortality data hasn't been updated since September. The 0-49 age group has been dying at an alarming rate.
-The INSPQ page is down. Leave it to people who think faxes are more secure than email to take 2.5 hours to update web servers.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯