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Raw chocolate.....again

I am almost sorry to raise the subject again but I recently came across Sungods Superfoods (www.sungodsuperfoods.com.au) being flogged in my local supermarket. Raw cacao nibs from Bali was the product, overpriced and claiming to cure all that ails ya. Anyway, curious, i bought some as i wanted to find out how raw we are talking. I have had a few experiences with Bali cacao, a nice fermented batch which made some pretty nice chocolate and some absolute shit, mould covered unfermented beans.....just wash the pulp off and dry, apparently quite common in Indo. Tasting, then roasting and tasting led me to the conclusion that the nibs were unfermented and unroasted. Then i thought what is all the hoo ha about raw chocolate being fermented, who cares if fermentation goes too hot, just skip a step, wash the pulp straight off the bean, dry the sucker and you are done. You have raw cacao without having to quibble about the fermentation temperature with the added bonus of not having exposed the beans to a multitude of unchecked possibly pathogenic microorganisms and as far as i can tell it still tastes aweful, so perfect!

So are there two catagories of 'raw cacao'? Which is better, dare i say 'raw-er'?

I can probably have a go at this, the unfermented would be raw-er, but the fermented probably tastes marginally better. But as for more heath-filled, fermentation probably breaks down the polyphenols a bit, so do we want shorter chains or longer?

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Permalink Reply by Jim on September 27, 2011 at 3:22pm

Tom,

I think you have just solved my cocoa bean marketing problem. I am going to offer the rawwwwest cacau for those that aspire to it.

 

You can come to my farm, go into the cacau plantation, I'll provide a guide....and for 1dollar a pod, pick your own and feast until your hearts content. The guide will break them open for you and collect the dollars.

Permalink Reply by Tom on September 27, 2011 at 7:07pm
Come on Jim, $2.50 per pod at least, this is raw chocolate after all!
Permalink Reply by Richard Foley on September 28, 2011 at 2:49am
Podfathers Chocolates....... busting open a whole rawta cocoa, and all cash business..where is this going.
Permalink Reply by Ice Blocks! on October 3, 2011 at 4:22am

Is there any chocolate flavour in un-fermented beans?

 

Interesting presentation about cacao fermentation.

http://www.worldcocoafoundation.org/who-we-are/partnership-meetings...

 

What about dutching that should allow 4 possible raw cacao's and varying levels of dutching. i.e. black unfermented dutched cacao  or lightly dutched fermented raw cacao etc.. LOL?

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