Monthly Archives: October 2007

oh my.

By Tien Chiu | Published: October 31, 2007
Lookee what I found: http://www.ecolechocolat.com/chocolatier-school.php Also reviews of quite a few tempering machines. I’ve been wanting one for awhile, and it looks like I could probably build my own if I needed to – the principle is quite simple, a couple of 100-watt light bulbs for heating, a fan for cooling, and a temperature limit controller, [...]
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aargh!

By Tien Chiu | Published: October 30, 2007
I invited a bunch of people to come by and take chocolates for themselves and their coworkers.  They’ve been coming by, but have been oh-so-delicately taking a pound or two of chocolates apiece!  Don’t they understand that they’re supposed to cart off entire cartons of the stuff?  Whatever happened to old-fashioned human greed? Well, I have [...]
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All done but the cleanup

By Tien Chiu | Published: October 30, 2007
Mailed off 30+ packages at the post office today (you should have seen the look the postal clerks gave me!) and am just about done – still have four more packages to mail because I ran out of boxes (and one needs to go UPS to Alaska), but other than that it’s a matter of [...]
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63 pounds, 33 flavors

By Tien Chiu | Published: October 28, 2007
Yep.  That’s 63 pounds of chocolates we’re talking about, in 33 varieties.  Packed into 42 1-lb boxes, with a bunch left over.  Friends, family, and sponsors are gonna be happy this week.  (At least, they better be.  Or else.) The final list of flavors: Dried fruits dipped in chocolate: apricots ginger candied bergamot peel pear (did not make it into the [...]
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Whew!

By Tien Chiu | Published: October 27, 2007
By rough estimate, I made over 800 bonbons today.   4 trays of 6 chocolate molds with an average of 25 bonbons per mold, plus a bunch of chocolate covered macadamia nuts, plus some chocolate covered pear-gel-and-pear-ganache bonbons.  Still doesn’t feel like I accomplished much for 13 hours of intense labor, but then I also put most [...]
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