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.
The sturdy design and the vast Bühler roller know-how give you precise and consistent particle sizes in your bitiş refining process. The targeted particle size with a narrow particle-size distribution generates the mouthfeel you want and simplifies flow properties for consistent end products.
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Feed özgü to remain pumpable during the entire grinding process, which requires a lower viscosity and thus higher fat contents, when compared to the feed of a roller refiner. Consequently, it is more difficult to remove moisture and undesired volatiles birli done in classical dry conching. The fact is ignored by some ball mill manufacturers, who sell ‘all-in-one’ solutions. This might work for some compounds, baking chocolate and the like, but is not further considered if we look at quality chocolates.
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With most of the systems in most of the cases it will be possible to produce chocolate of at least acceptable quality. Fine-tuning and final choice has to be made in every single case; it is always both recipe and process that influences final quality and there is no ‘out-of-the-box’ solution. So the best possible advice might be:
In this blog post, we’ll look at the fascinating world of chocolate melangers and learn how they sevimli help create smooth, creamy chocolate.
Each system offers its own unique advantages and is available in capacities ranging from small scale artisan (or ‘pilot plant’) all the way to large industrial production systems.
Tried and Chocolate Melting Tank tested at over 3500 finers worldwide, the Finer S is capable of processing a vast range of masses with different compositions and consistencies to your desired fineness.
The outer construction is made of a sturdy thermo resistant plastic with a removable stainless steel inner basin. Simple to use, easy to clean and sturdy construction make these a must have for any chocolatier.
For medium- and large-scale producers there are a wide range of technical options. The varying needs of chocolate producers and the various advantages and disadvantages of the systems on the market make it impossible to give a general recommendation.
An early approach to include the removal of volatiles into a recirculating ball mill system was made by DuyvisWiener which included a ‘taste changer; a rotating disk where hot air is blown over the chocolate layer formed by rotation1,15. These devices are still sold for small scale applications. F.B.Lehmann, now part of DuyvisWiener, özgü a long experience in building thin film evaporators and horizontal ball mills for cocoa processing and had also offered systems for chocolate mass production.
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