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Selmi Plus fuses
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Questions about the Savy Goiseau Automatic Guitar
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Melanie Boudar posted a discussionSelmi Plus fuses
Any Selmi users out there that can confirm the amp/ volts of the ceramic fuses and a source for them.
Melanie Boudar replied to Brian Pelletier's discussion Custom Chocolate Molds"Tomric, Micelli Mold co both do custom"
Melanie Boudar replied to Donny Gagliardi's discussion Making Truffles"Most people make a ganache and let it sit overnight to crystallize without refrigeration.You can roll it the next day. If chocolate centers a dipped cold they will crack. There are many great books, ecole chocolat or chocolate academy…"
Melanie Boudar replied to Heather Panchyshyn's discussion New to chocolates, ganache advice"Time and experience are the best teachers and they cannot be had overnight.
There is no "Magic pill" to create 1 month shelf life. How you choose & formulate your recipes, have the skill and equipment investment to make them,…"
Melanie Boudar replied to Clay Gordon's discussion What the Chocolate Industry Needs is A $100 Bar of Chocolate"Hawaii has the rarity , a diverse genetic pool, rich, volcanic soil and benefit of being the only US location to have a chocolate industry. Now what we need is some skilled bean to bar chocolate maker to come in and elevate that.I totally agree that…"
Melanie Boudar replied to Annette Jimison's discussion Writing a Business Plan for your Chocolate Venture in the group Startup Central"I suggest you go to the local office of your Small Business Development Center (sbdc.org) and get their business plan outline and a counsellor consultation. It is free.
What you have written here is not detailed nor impressive enough to…"
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- Dark, Milk, White?
- Dark
- Most memorable chocolate experience:
- A Box of Del Rey Chocolates chocolates presented to me in Belgium after a wierd diamond deal. (I was a former diamond buyer)
- My favorite chocolate is:
- Amedi Chuao /Venezuelan
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Cacao Nibs and Pathogen Risk
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 12:07am 6 Comments 0 Likes
I have had customers asking me for cacao nibs and roasted and raw cacao beans but have been reluctant to stock these items due to salmonella or other pathogen risk. After seeing cacao beans being fermented and dried in numerous countries I question the safety of these products. Dirt, bugs, drying on asphalt roads etc..I question from all but the most sophisticated winnowing operations to remove the husk. Am I overreacting to the risk ? Does the roasting process kill these pathogens? Is anyone… Continue
New Chocolate Boutique Opening
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 4:34am 3 Comments 3 Likes
My newest Sweet Paradise Chocolatier chocolate boutique is soft opening May 1st at the Wailea Gateway Center in Wailea, Maui. The official "Grand Opening" will be June 16th. This has been a 9 month process to get permits and open a store here and it doesn't even have a kitchen! Talk about island time. The store features my own truffle/confection collection focused on Tropical flavors but also bars from various Hawaii chocolate-makers- Original Hawaiian, Malie Kai, Waialua Estate, Madre…
Continue Chocolate on MAui
Posted on August 6, 2010 at 10:00pm 1 Comment 0 Likes
Our Sweet Paradise Chocolatier chocolate kitchen is relocating to Maui next month at the Lahaina Design Center.Buildout is underway! We will have a drip coffee bar, open kitchen concept and walk up counter for chocolate.
Come visit if you are in Maui.
75 Kupuohi St, Lahaina Industrial Plaza ...just a couple blocks off the main highway.
Sweet Paradise is Opening a New Store
Posted on March 13, 2009 at 4:00am 2 Comments 0 Likes
I am pleased to announce that my chocolate company, Sweet Paradise Chocolatier will be opening this summer at the Kings Shops at the Waikoloa Beach Resort. My manufacturing kitchen will also move to Waimea, also on the Big Island. The Kailua location will remain and expand to a dessert cafe in addition to chocolates. Despite the economy I am looking forward to this move and direction into the resort world.
The little shop is only 300 sf and will also serve gelato and a unique variety of… Continue
The little shop is only 300 sf and will also serve gelato and a unique variety of… Continue
Valentines Recovery
Posted on February 17, 2009 at 3:07am 1 Comment 0 Likes
Don't know about anyone else but I am in post-Valentines recovery!! What a maddening holiday. I watched thousands of chocolates disappear in what seemed like a 3 day feeding frenzy.The reward is that I get to spend a few days At the Craters Edge in my tree fern forest/B&B in Volcano, Hawaii soaking in the hot tub and watching the first fiddleheads start to wake up from "winter" . Different groups of orchids are blooming now, I don't know the names of all of them but at least 6 varieties are… Continue
Comment Wall (12 comments)
- At 6:21pm on April 11, 2012,
Erin said… Hi Melanie, sorry for the delay on contacting you. I've spent the last few days out of commission with the flu. Seem to be doing much better now.
Thursday is the only bad day for me to meet up. I fly out on Monday around noon. When will be best for you to meet up? I'm staying in Kehei, so getting to you shouldn't be much of a problem.
Thank you,
Erin
- At 11:58pm on March 19, 2012, Erin said…
Hi Melanie, I'll be in Maui the week of April 9th and was wondering if I may be able to meet you when I'm there.
Thanks,
Erin
- At 3:34pm on March 21, 2010,
Matt Caputo said… - Melanie,
Thanks for friending. We would love to service your account. Can you tell me the url of your business and a little bit about what you do, for how long, etc.? I look forward to hearing from you and talking shop.
Feel free to email me: matt at caputosdeli dot com.
- At 2:40am on October 20, 2009,
Rick Jordan said… - Hey Melanie! its rick from callebaut in chicago...we were enrobing together.
also, we had a nice bout with lana about custom boxes ;)
i ended going up w/ sweet packaging...the girl lives in chicago and i was able to meet her the next time i went up. i got i FINALLY sorted out...what a freak'n time all of that was.
i ended up buying a die cutter from ellison.com and had 4 custom dies made so that i could cut chipboard out for my inserts. its awesome.
hope all is going well? whats the latest from the island?!
take care,
rick
- At 10:52pm on October 14, 2009,
Rich said… - Hi Melanie,
Thanks for the offer to give me a source for Valrhona. Try as I might I can't find a way to email you. Usually there is an email link attached to the member profile. Sorry, I can't find it.
Be that as it may, I used to buy the Valrhona from Heinz Weiler at Y. Hata. They stopped handling it a couple months ago. I know Rimfire on Maui has it, but I haven't opened an account with them yet.
If you have a source here on Oahu, I'd really appreciate you passing that info on.
Aloha,
Rich Bockhaus
diamond@lava.net
- At 11:24am on September 20, 2009,
Mark J Sciscenti said… - Hi Melanie, thanks for your message! Both my partner and I would love to come to Hawaii to visit you and bring you green chili. Where in NM did you live? Do you know Nat? He is an ethnobotonist with the UofH and grows his own cacao and makes chocolate as well. Do you need a pastry chef or would you be willing to host chocolate history lectures? Contact me sometime. :-) Mark
- At 2:20pm on May 14, 2009,
ChocoFiles said… - Hi Melanie,
I can't remember if I told you that my real name is "Lowe". I was in your Kailua Sweet Paradise store in Nov 08 and Dec 08 when I was visiting from NC. It was great to taste Hawaiian chocolate! I wish I could get back there again soon, but don't know when that might be.
- At 11:31am on April 6, 2009,
Heidi Caren said… - which academy did you go to? i do have to admit that I have not made good friends with the enrober yet...just don't have that knack down. Congrats on the new store!!!
- At 2:36pm on February 12, 2009,
Derek Lanter said… - Yumm! Your gonna have fun at the Valentines' party.
I will stop by Sweet Paradise on Friday with some fresh coffee. Let me know if you need some of the 500 gram bars. And thank you for the invite!
- At 3:25am on February 5, 2009, Marisa Miyashiro said…
- Hi Melanie,
I'll see if I can get Sharkey on here, too...and Allan Goodson. We'll have to start our own Hawaii Cacao group soon.
See you next week, hopefully!
Marisa
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