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  • #16
    Re: Shelf-life of powdered cocoa?

    I wasnt wanting any of your maddness Thundergod, I was trying to get rid some of mine.

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    • #17
      Re: Shelf-life of powdered cocoa?

      Originally posted by Thundergod link=1216739345/0#13 date=1217339928
      I dont share any of my madness.
      Get your own.
      ...or "I dont suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it"

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      • #18
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        Lets face it...almost all people are mad.  Its just that most havent been diagnosed. ;D

        I on the other hand am hopeful of becoming an eccentric, if not already there.

        Simone, if the actual chocolate making seems way too hard and you have the opportunity to get some of the nibs, do so. With a light roast in the oven, or even raw, theyre a great food to try.

        Andy taught me that in this form, the nibs are also the benchmark of chocolatey as a coffee descriptor. I havent tried it yet (hopefully today) but perhaps a little Cote dIvoire on the tongue might work too.

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        • #19
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          Originally posted by martybean link=1216739345/0#15 date=1217363587
          I wasnt wanting any of your maddness Thundergod, I was trying to get rid some of mine.
          Well Ive had brain surgery...whats your excuse?

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          • #20
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            I think my wife thinks I have OCD the way I carry on about coffee.
            She now has become a chocolatesnob doing courses and buying all sorts of choclate stuff, Im sure she has spent more on chocolate gear, than I have on coffee gear. The upside of this, the truffles she makes are fantastic, the downside well there isnt one.

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            • #21
              Re: Shelf-life of powdered cocoa?

              Back on the topic, my wifes belgian cocoa is dated best before 23/11/09 and she bought it a couple of weeks ago.

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              • #22
                Re: Shelf-life of powdered cocoa?

                Originally posted by martybean link=1216739345/20#20 date=1217404257
                Back on the topic, my wifes belgian cocoa is dated best before 23/11/09 and she bought it a couple of weeks ago.
                Now if we only knew when it was harvested, processed and packed, we might know what this particular belgian cocoas shelf life is. :P

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                • #23
                  Re: Shelf-life of powdered cocoa?

                  Dennis Much like coffee, it doesnt say on the bag.When it was processed.

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                  • #24
                    Re: Shelf-life of powdered cocoa?

                    Originally posted by martybean link=1216739345/20#22 date=1217413683
                    Dennis Much like coffee, it doesnt say on the bag.When it was processed.
                    You mean to tell me there are people out there who dont put a "roasted on" date on their coffee? ;D

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                    • #25
                      Re: Shelf-life of powdered cocoa?

                      Originally posted by Dennis link=1216739345/0#17 date=1217372726
                      I on the other hand am hopeful of becoming an eccentric, if not already there.

                      Simone, if the actual chocolate making seems way too hard and you have the opportunity to get some of the nibs, do so. With a light roast in the oven, or even raw, theyre a great food to try.

                      Andy taught me that in this form, the nibs are also the benchmark of chocolatey as a coffee descriptor. I havent tried it yet (hopefully today) but perhaps a little Cote dIvoire on the tongue might work too.
                      Dont you have to be rich to be eccentric? :

                      Chocolate nibs sound much more my style -- chocolate with fibre ;D

                      I did taste a fingertip-full of my "ivory coast" unadulterated when it first arrived. Im afraid what I thought it set the benchmark for was a quite astonishing bitterness -- I had never encountered straight cocoa before and was slightly stunned (I was expecting chocolate, you know).

                      Id love to know how the first guys to meet a cacao tree decided the seeds were even remotely edible

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                      • #26
                        Re: Shelf-life of powdered cocoa?

                        I think they were related to the guys that first tried Kopi Luwak.

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                        • #27
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                          Originally posted by simone link=1216739345/20#24 date=1217417872

                          Dont you have to be rich to be eccentric? :
                          Or poor

                          Originally posted by simone link=1216739345/20#24 date=1217417872
                          Chocolate nibs sound much more my style -- chocolate with fibre ;D

                          Id love to know how the first guys to meet a cacao tree decided the seeds were even remotely edible
                          Well, there you go - the nibs are quite nice and actually I find them mild, but full of body and nowhere near the bitterness of cocoa that Ive tried.

                          And if you wonder about the first guys to try cacao, what possible thoughts must have run through the minds of the first people to see a cow and think, oooh, those udders look good!

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                          • #28
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                            Originally posted by Dennis link=1216739345/20#26 date=1217420474
                            And if you wonder about the first guys to try cacao, what possible thoughts must have run through the minds of the first people to see a cow and think, oooh, those udders look good!
                            I can pretty much guarantee that any cow being eye-ed off by the 1st masochist to think milk was a good idea wouldve looked nothing like the girls you see in the paddocks these days. More like milking a sheep, only with 10 x the likelihood of getting your head kicked off!

                            As for Kopi Luwak -- well I just had to go look it up didnt I (thanks TG!)

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