Hello fellow bloggers!
In literacy we have been learning the process of making chocolate. Here is an
explanation of what we have learnt.



The first step is to grow and harvest cocoa beans. They're found in little pots on trees,
located in the Equatorial forest. It can take up to five to six months to grow cocoa
beans and harvest them. The next step is to ferment the beans.Once the cocoa beans
have been extracted from the pots, they're left for 5-7 days to be fermented.
After fermentation of the beans, you must leave them covered for 6 days in the sun to
dry.



At collection centers, the dry cocoa beans are weighed and checked for quality.
They're then packed into bags and shipped to the cocoa factory.



After Arrival, the beans are sorted into groups, cleaned, dried and broken into nibs,
which are then ground and roasted into liquid mass. This is called cocoa liquor.
Cocoa liquor can be processed into cocoa butter or cocoa powder. Depending on
the chocolate recipe, cocoa butter, cocoa liquor, sugar or milk powder are mixed.
This substance is constantly kneaded in a process called conching.




Other ingredients can be added during the conching. The chocolate is then
delivered in either liquid form, blocks or drops to all the chocolate lovers of the
world.

Here is a link to the video

Let me know in the comments what your favourite stage of the chocolate making process is, and your favourite type of chocolate!