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"Thanks Gordon!! do you konw of any food historians that can solve the ganache question?"

"Gustaf: On this last question: it depends on the recipe. What is the percentage of cocoa? Also, if cocoa butter is added you need to know the extraction ratio of non-fat cocoa solids to fat in order to know how many beans were used to generate a…"

"BTW...How many cocoa beans does it take to make 1 kilo of dark chocolate?"

"Daniela...yeah I heard that story too but I need true facts!! I saw that the word came from the French language, where it means literally, jowl, from Italian ganascia, modification of Greek gnathos jaw  — more at -gnathous First…"

"It's a french word. It's supposed to mean "fool", there's was a helper in a pastry shop who spilled hot cream over chocolate by mistake and the chef called him "ganache" but the cream was a complete success. they…"

"Shawn...I hope that you are well...   Can you please help me out on my questions..   G"