My wife's family lives in Mindanao , PHP . they make cacao , grow and roast coffee , coconut , pineapples , and fish a lot . Eating all that fresh stuff is like a dream it's soooo good compared to processed food in the u.s. I enjoy spending a month or two when we go there . Once my wife's retired , we're moving there . And I'm going to woodwork , and fish , and plow fields .
@@gabehumphries5483 this makes me wana do this and make different kinds, add jams and fruit preserves and other things. go eazy on it bro, it is the same plant coke is made from. or maybe your drinking the tea from the leaves
Man, who discovered this. It was like someone was hungry so they cracked one of those pods open then tried a bean and threw it down because it was nasty, then six dies later he was starving so he said screw it. Went back to find where he threw those nasty beans. Tried them again but now they tasted good. Anyone else ever wonder how the hell people discovered stuff like this? lol
Uncle Freddy that’s not true in the slightest, humans are the only sentient beings on earth being able to think freely. Yes, some animals eating plants might give us the idea of “maybe we can eat it to” but some plants that are alright to eat for an animal may prove to be deadly to a human. But because an animal can eat something we can’t or something we haven’t thought of eating before doesn’t make them smarter. Here’s an example: if a high school drop out who does meth decides he’s going to try putting French fries in his ice cream and see how it taste, and it actually taste good, does that mean he’s more smart than a guy who is a high school valedictorian who also goes to Harvard? No, he isn’t.
As a lifelong chocolate lover , I learned to appreciate it even more by watching your demonstration of what is involved in making this heavenly substance.
Actually, given how complicated it already is to make chocolate, the difference between 'good' quality & 'bad' quality chocolate wouldn't really be that much. It's recipe & whether or not the producer cares about tempering it properly, which is really laziness more than anything.
I just find out in instagram that they have stopped producing these chocolates since the lava spread on their homestead in Hawaii. I hope they can get back with their old business so we can taste their chocolates all around the world.! #Supportlocal♥️😇
Thank you so much for watching this video. We are making chocolate again after the 2018 lava eruption. It's been a hard road to recovery but we are almost there.
I remember my grandma always make a homemade cacao chocolate for our daily cacao hot choco but Im surprised that you can collect cacao juice. I candy the cacao seeds when its ripe. Then i gave it back to her the seeds. Because we are abundant of sunshine here in the Philippines, my grandma dried the seeds under the heat of the sun until ready to heat on the pan. The seeds cover will removed eventually from the seeds. She had a bamboo big plate to tossed the seeds an inches above to let theseeds cover to removed. My grandma had a stone grinder to make a chocolate.. You cant tell if its a hot choco if she make it. I always burn my tongue everytime I drink drink hot choco. I missed my grandma. To watched your video, it remind me of her... 😢
@@deborahmerkerson1145 No i chopped down that tree not knowing that it was a real cacao tree and not a poisonous one. The tree was cut halfway though and it was too late when they stopped me.
Wow guys I am just so impressed!!! It amazes me that hundreds of years ago someone came up with the idea to pull these slimy seeds out of this fruit then for a minute then chop it up then cook it then stir it forever and then add something to find it all together. You guys are awesome thank you. I'm pretty sure it was probably a more step by step process but you get my point and here you guys are instead of going to the store and buying a Hershey's bar y'all are making it step by step.... BRAVO!!!!
@Adrian Morales Well, it's a little faster, cause nonstop functioning machines are doing all the job. However the long list of steps to make the chocolate (From taking out the seeds, cleaning them, roasting them, grinding them) is still the same in factory, which can take days :) ;) th-cam.com/video/8wpAvXR6wl0/w-d-xo.html
(Don't keep editting your comments Yellow Man. In response to your previous uneditted message, "You are FAT!", following was my response) Oh wow Yellow Man!! You are bitter! You must be eating snakes. Finishing up a "bar of chocolate in 2 minutes", and you address me as fat?
my grandparents grew them in their garden in Sarawak and sell the dried seeds. When price was low the trees were abandoned and they switched to planting the spice pepper. later on i had a chance to supervise the installation of a cocoa processing factory in Shanghai back in 1995. That was quite a learning experience to see the whole process of making cocoa products ( cocoa butter and cocoa powder ) from the dried beans.
I'm impressed. My father works at Malaysian Cocoa Board and he is always explaining to me all the process of making chocolate like you've shown in your video. With the help of your video, I understand more.
My grandma made me some when I was little w/o fermentation. We had couple of cacao trees in the backyard. She had the seeds dried under the sun for 2-3 days, roasted 'em, then simply crushed to powder form, added good amount of sugar, stirred, mixing all together and voila! Homemade chocolate! I miss my childhood.
We were reading about the process the Mayans used to make chocolate and found this video to be a very interesting comparison. Thank you for taking the time to make this video!
i missed those days when my grandma prepared me a hot chocolate drink every morning..her backyard have this kind of tree.. after we ate the cacao fruit she collected the seed and instead of fermenting it, she only washed and dried it under the sun for i don't know how many days and once it dried she grind it directly. that's how she get the chocolate powder.. thanks for this wonderful tree. and thanks for this wonderful video. 😊
@@johnnyjoestar4424 poor little one.. too much negativity and insecurity in your system. maybe your family don't love you at all that's why your attitudes like that and maybe you didn't experience having serve a hot choco with full of love by your granny. so sad.
@@johnnyjoestar4424 yes there is someone who cares a lot with my post.. look at you.. 😊 ahahaha.. and don't be mad at me 😊 . i may not be the kindest human on the planet but i swear i am kind with animals.. like you ahahaha.. 😊😊😂
Wow this video is so awesome...No wonder chocolate is so expensive it’s a lot of work.... never will complain about the price again. Thanks so much for sharing!!!
But some people might wanna have fun and make the chocolate, say a little boy’s dad grows cacao beans and they might wanna help make their own home made chocolate.
The reason it's so cheap is because they make up the difference with appalling conditions for the people that grow and process that cocoa at industrial scale. Chocolate's a lovely commodity, but look behind the curtain and it's a miserable business.
Incredible. I had NO idea where chocolate came from or how it was made. You're doing a great job. Congratulations, that's quite a skill to acquire. Thank you.
So did I..... Aloha! My parents live in Costa Rica and they grow Cacoa.. They have made there own nibs, but not chocolate.. This process is amazing, and also looks like it takes a long time, and you definitely need the equipment... Fun to watch, though..
It's fascinating that humans figured out how to do this. It makes me wonder how the first people actually figured out the process. This video was awesome and I appreciate chocolate even more now lol. *Edit* : I could only imagine how hard it was to make before machinery. What a trip.
It amazes me far more that people ten thousand years ago figured out how to make bread. Let's take the unremarkable seed capsules from grass, dry them, thresh them, separate the chaff, grind them, mix them with water, then bake that dough to get something edible with very little taste. Almost the same process as chocolate.
I was thinking about the same thing .....from the cocoa pod to the final chocolate bar there's no apparent connection!!! two totally different concepts !!!!.... same with bread and everything else....... that's why we should think that our culture is a product of a legacy ..... that very well should be from ET origin ..... all concealed by some hidden powers ....
The hardest part for me would be the wrapping of the bar without taste testing it. Awesome video! I never knew so much went into making a bar of chocolate.
The babies are the seeds that our farmer is fermenting; not the shells which are deposited by the tree to decompose and turn into compost. That is how all plants survive and propagate. Where did this foolish notion of cannibalism come from? If you are against eating babies- don’t eat piglets, baby goats, baby chickens and please don’t go to Korea, Philippines, China where they eat the babies alive. Heard of fermented duck eggs? The babies are slowly pickled alive in Philippines and in South Korea they eat the same and eat baby octopus and squids alive while they are squiggling around in vinegar.
Dear Gabe, thank you so much for that video. Here in Spain we've been into artesanal chocolate making for a couple of years now and slowly getting to know more about all the steps of the process. This tree-to-bar thing... it is our dream! So nice to see it through your video, inspiring. And in awe of your work, which of course doesn't show so much in a video but obviously there. The growing of the cacao is a real real issue worlwide, wherever you look (South America, Africa,...). So much speculation and distorted interests and horrible practices like child labour, slavery-like jobs, etc. We are in love with chocolate-making Alchemy and it feels so good to see that there are other ways to make it happen. Please keep up with that amazing good work!
the cooler was dirty along with the nails of the guy mixing the seeds. that could be chocolate under his nails due to him being a chocolatier, so I will give him the benefit of doubt.
Thank you for a well documented video on how chocolate is made. I used this in class with my students and it helped them understand and appreciate the effort that goes into making each bar of chocolate. I especially like the fact there wasn't any background music. Well done Gabe, fab job indeed!
Appreciation goes out to home growers of all sorts whether it’s chocolate or something else. Hard work and labor is definitely worth it than the factories 🤘
Great video! I love how baffled people are about fermentation and this sort of thing. Making food was something that a lot of people would have done before getting caught up in today's distractions. I'm glad that TH-cam is an avenue to share this knowledge with a wide audience, giving the power to the people again :)
After watching this I went and grabbed a bar of chocolate and it really made me appreciate the steps that it takes to make this delicious treat. It got me thinking about how chocolate was first discovered, but now I'm just glad that it was .
Robert Olin there was no chocolate in Europe. The cocoa pods only grew in south and Central America and was used as a drink. The Spaniards took it back to Spain and drank it as cocoa. In 1847 Joseph Fry from England figured how to make it into a harden bar, then a company named Cadbury also from England mass produce them.
If anyone wants a more technical explanation of tempering, basically the problem with chocolate is that is can form a few different crystal structures, each with different melting points. If you melt chocolate then let it cool, the crystals will form haphazardly and you'll wind up with chocolate that has various non-ideal characteristics. Tempering is done by holding the chocolate at a temperature that is low enough only for the highest melting point structure, and by allowing that structure to grow throughout the chocolate you're minimizing the amount of other types that will be present in the final product. I found it really interesting when i learned that
Isn’t that what happens when chocolate bars start turning that white color and start having a weird kinda crumbly texture? Is that what you’re talking about?
Sonda Randolph sugar is a preservative. Salt is a preservative. Alcohol is a preservative. I could go on, but the point is theres nothing unnatural about preservatives. It’s better your food lasts long than spoils fast and gets thrown away. What’s gonna make this taste better is the high quality products you could use, so not lots of cheap fats or powdered milk and so on.
I'm attempting making my own chocolate from the cacao pod to chocolate bar, and out of all the videos I've watched on youtube, this has been the best one. Thank you for sharing your process with us!
I grew up helping my grandpa making a cacao chocolate. It is so easy. We will eat it first the fruit the seed and after all seeds we let it dried up in under the sun for how many days. Then when it is really dry we cook it without oil when all of the seeds had turned black and ready for cracking coz u have to remove the skin from the seed then we bring it in the market for grinding. I love the smell of it when it is hot then we mold it sometimes i took small piece roll it in my palm and coated it with white sugar then ate it. 🙃 Childhood memories..
Cacao tree: "All you need to do to make my fruit edible is harvest the seeds, ferment for several days with vinegar and yeast, dry the seeds, separate the nibs by hand with grinder and fan, roast the nibs in an oven, grind some more, get some special mechanical mixers and monitor the temperature of each step. Oh and add lots of sugar and butter." Apple tree: "Hold my cider."
You can eat this when its ripe like any other fruit, just don't eat the seed because its pretty bitter. The seeds you dry and make chocolate. Same as coffee beans.
That's actually not true... The *fruit* of the cacao plant can be eaten fresh and also juiced just like apples. It's the *seeds* of the cacao fruit that require the processing to make chocolate. With apple seeds, it's best not to eat them at all, since they're full of cyanide :D
Lovely I had a whole farm at my back yard I was helping to make some so I got a bar for myself and I knew how to make it from scratch it's so delicious I think I have the Hershey kind
They're covered with a small film of meat (in Jamaica we eat the meat from the seed raw then we put the seeds out to dry) we roast the seeds.. Remove the shells off the seeds, then we roast it again and them beat it in a mortar until we get a paste....the paste can then be dried and turned to powder to make hot chocolate sweetened with milk
sethmeistergee they have slave labor and children that grow and work the beans so yeah its a big problem with chocolates especially Hersey they are awful about buying from slave labor fields ..
"Oh, I didn't show me adding the sugar. :( Oh wait yes i did!" Lol i don't know why but I just thought that part was pretty funny. Just a harmless little mistake, added a much needed bit of humor in this pretty interesting video about making chocolate from scratch. I had NO IDEA this is how chocolate is made. How's chocolate so cheap!?
Child labor from South America the farmers and Children are paid extremely low in Hispanic countries for companies like Hershey’s to make profits. It’s pretty sad :(
Automated mass production facilities. Most employees make more than their country averaged median income. Have any of you actually been to south America? Making chocolate for well above you countrys minimum wage is not "sad" down there. its called being saved from what the local gangs will do to your kids.
Plants are very perceptive to sounds and energy! Healthy plants need love and good energy. Talking to them and saying nice things to them will actually make them grow stronger and healthier than not doing so :)
@@summerbrooke4076 you are correct though!! I would pray every morning in my herb and pepper garden and sing amazing grace as the sun came up. And I had the best herbs and peppers and veggies I've ever grown!!!! Nothing changed but how I sang to them and the positivity that I was putting off towards them. I was amazed! I never believed it to be true, but now I have seen it with my own eyes!!
I thought this would be as boring as hell. But I find the video extremely interesting because you show so many aspects of the problem (that is making chocolate). I doubt where I live in the mainland United States that I'm going to come across a cocoa plant. Although I knew that there was these steps involved in making this product, I'm going to end up having to 'process' my chocolate by going to the store and purchase it under sign that says the chocolate aisle. That's as rough as it gets for me…
@Sick of the divas Jones WOT?!?!?! I am the kind of chocoholic that would stop on every single "kyosko" (as we call them), and buy a bar of whatever chocolate. So my routine was: stop to buy a chocolate bar, walk while eating (or eat while walking), get to the next kiosko and buy another bar, cause I had finished the previous one. I know what lack of chocolate means... it´s despairing. heh And how come you don´t eat chocolate? you allergic, diabetic, or some kind of crazy person? :D Peace
Wow! That great. Very well and simply explained. Thank you for share such great homesteading knowledge. Right now, in my Compound in the village in Abia State, Nigeria I have 10 fruiting cocoa trees wasting. I wish you give me direction on what to do to start up chocolate making in my village. Thanks
It’s incredible how some Puerto Ricans imported those coquis to Hawaii. Sad, but at the same time, beautiful since many extinct species of coquis are now living peacefully over there. Bless Hawaii
Dude those frogs are really annoying lmao. Especially when you're trying to go to sleep. I get where the aggressions coming from. I'm used to it b/c I've lived here for 12 years now but for new people they grow to hate it
Cacao beans were used as currency in Mayan, Aztec, Toltec, Olmec and even Incan civilizations. Due to labor/time intensive processing, they were worth as much as gold or silver. Coco as we know it, was the pervue of the very wealthy in both the Americas and later Europe 150 to 500 years ago. Only through mass farming and mass industrialization/mechanization/refrigeration/transport, was the cost and labor time brought down to the level where you can go literally anywhere in the world for the last 40 years and buy a bar of chocolate for and average global price between less than one USD to two USD, dependent on the size and type of chocolate. We live in amazing times folks, but can we appreciate it? Cacao farmers in the Americas as well as Africa still, IMO, are not given fair compensation for their work when viewed on a global economic level. I personally would not mind paying 25 to 50 cents more for chocolate products If I KNEW that the growers were actually recieving that cost benefit. PS; If you don't like chocolate, you are probably from Alpha Centuri.
what ıs up wıth alpha centaurı? you mean that everyone from earth loves chocolate and you saıd just a random name for a joke lıke "oh ıf you don't lıke chocolate so you are not from earth"
The wages would probably be higher if the welfare state were abolished in America. The majority of larger companies get gouged for taxes and can hardly afford to continue to run their businesses and pay their workers.
Walang pambabastos na naganap...mga malisyusong isipan ang gumagawa ng kabastusan..masaya sila at nag sisisgawan para kela isko at boboy.kaya goodjob po sa inyong dalwa❣️❣️
My wife's family lives in Mindanao , PHP . they make cacao , grow and roast coffee , coconut , pineapples , and fish a lot . Eating all that fresh stuff is like a dream it's soooo good compared to processed food in the u.s. I enjoy spending a month or two when we go there . Once my wife's retired , we're moving there . And I'm going to woodwork , and fish , and plow fields .
you bet.. it is bliss here in Mindanao Philippines
The Bromosexual yes she's Filipino .
ME i lived here in Mindanao. All vegetables and fruits here are always fresh and delicious 😊😊
...and that's Carl's plans for his life. Now back to the chocolate.
Please take me along
Just realised how much I appreciate chocolate now
its a lot of work
Gabe Humphries i could tell!
@@gabehumphries5483 this makes me wana do this and make different kinds, add jams and fruit preserves and other things. go eazy on it bro, it is the same plant coke is made from. or maybe your drinking the tea from the leaves
Nah bro you cant appreciate all chocolate
I no right
Man, who discovered this. It was like someone was hungry so they cracked one of those pods open then tried a bean and threw it down because it was nasty, then six dies later he was starving so he said screw it. Went back to find where he threw those nasty beans. Tried them again but now they tasted good. Anyone else ever wonder how the hell people discovered stuff like this? lol
@Death Metal well if we are talking about the old generation, the disgusting we know if is probably a delicacy for them
Jhemp12 its called evolution :)
Abuse they see animals eat them, so it must be safe
But even after all that, 100% cocoa powder tastes like shit. Only after adding some form of dairy or sweetness does it taste even remotely palatable.
Uncle Freddy that’s not true in the slightest, humans are the only sentient beings on earth being able to think freely. Yes, some animals eating plants might give us the idea of “maybe we can eat it to” but some plants that are alright to eat for an animal may prove to be deadly to a human. But because an animal can eat something we can’t or something we haven’t thought of eating before doesn’t make them smarter. Here’s an example: if a high school drop out who does meth decides he’s going to try putting French fries in his ice cream and see how it taste, and it actually taste good, does that mean he’s more smart than a guy who is a high school valedictorian who also goes to Harvard? No, he isn’t.
As a lifelong chocolate lover , I learned to appreciate it even more by watching your demonstration of what is involved in making this heavenly substance.
true
What a beeotch would say
This is the exact kind of video you’d watch when it’s 2 am.
Yo dude stop interferring with my privacy
Just stop
i didn’t come here to be called out
Alva Krus 😭 I’m watching this late at night for no reason
It’s 1:26 am bro grow up who would watch this pass 1:30
I came here to learn how chocolate was made but now i feel attacked
It makes me realize why good-quality chocolate is expensive. So much work to produce it.
a ton of work but its fun
True buy they use giant factories lol 😂🤷🏽♀️
It's because of the noises on making it. Lol
But i love the video. Makes me crave for chocolate at 2am😊
Totally worth it
Actually, given how complicated it already is to make chocolate, the difference between 'good' quality & 'bad' quality chocolate wouldn't really be that much.
It's recipe & whether or not the producer cares about tempering it properly, which is really laziness more than anything.
ITS SOMETHING ABOUT GROWING FOOD THAT MAKES YOUR HEART FEEL GOOD
Shhh. Turn your caps off .
IKR! CAPS ARE GREAT
Jesus Christ.... I LIKE CAPS TOO SO WHY THE HECK SHOULDN’T I JUST TYPE IT ON A SINGLE COMMENT
I LIKE CAP TOO BECAUSE THEY ATTRACT THE ATTENTION OF THOSE WHO ARE LOOKING AT COMMENTS
THIS IS AMAZING
I just find out in instagram that they have stopped producing these chocolates since the lava spread on their homestead in Hawaii. I hope they can get back with their old business so we can taste their chocolates all around the world.! #Supportlocal♥️😇
Thank you so much for watching this video. We are making chocolate again after the 2018 lava eruption. It's been a hard road to recovery but we are almost there.
glad to hear wish you and your loved ones the very best :)
Third comment 😂 sry
Hey, thank you, Hump
Make some white chocolate bruh
Greatest charity ever
I remember my grandma always make a homemade cacao chocolate for our daily cacao hot choco but Im surprised that you can collect cacao juice. I candy the cacao seeds when its ripe. Then i gave it back to her the seeds. Because we are abundant of sunshine here in the Philippines, my grandma dried the seeds under the heat of the sun until ready to heat on the pan. The seeds cover will removed eventually from the seeds. She had a bamboo big plate to tossed the seeds an inches above to let theseeds cover to removed. My grandma had a stone grinder to make a chocolate.. You cant tell if its a hot choco if she make it. I always burn my tongue everytime I drink drink hot choco. I missed my grandma. To watched your video, it remind me of her... 😢
When i was a kid, i stole one of my neighbor's cacao and thought that im one of the luckiest kids around, not knowing that it wasnt ripe yet.
@@zilentecho3954 😂🤣😂
@Zilentecho -_- Is it bitter when unripe? I bet you didn’t make that mistake again!
@@deborahmerkerson1145 No i chopped down that tree not knowing that it was a real cacao tree and not a poisonous one.
The tree was cut halfway though and it was too late when they stopped me.
Naging tradisyon din ito sa mga probinsya.
He’s whispering because he knows we’re all watching this at 1am
Same
Exactly. Respect to this man.
NO! Its because he doesnt wanna scare the chocolate. So shhhhhhhhhh....
At 1:01AM to be precise 😂😂
1:21am 😂
Wow guys I am just so impressed!!! It amazes me that hundreds of years ago someone came up with the idea to pull these slimy seeds out of this fruit then for a minute then chop it up then cook it then stir it forever and then add something to find it all together.
You guys are awesome thank you. I'm pretty sure it was probably a more step by step process but you get my point and here you guys are instead of going to the store and buying a Hershey's bar y'all are making it step by step.... BRAVO!!!!
"You don't want any bugs"
*tiny flies are walking all over the fermenting beans*
They're just fruit flies, harmless 😋
This just reminded me of when I accidentally ate a bee
how you ask
I was riding my bike and yawned and a bee flew in my mouth and i swallowed it
@@dox4384 Wow
He was trying to wrap a chocolate bar but his fingers wanted to roll a joint. 19:26
Knobov Sossidge hahahahahah
same
Gross
Knobov Sossidge 😂
Lol mhm
Wow, so much hard work goes behind in the making of chocolate, that I finish in 2 minutes.
@Adrian Morales Well, it's a little faster, cause nonstop functioning machines are doing all the job. However the long list of steps to make the chocolate (From taking out the seeds, cleaning them, roasting them, grinding them) is still the same in factory, which can take days :) ;)
th-cam.com/video/8wpAvXR6wl0/w-d-xo.html
Lets learn to love.
(Don't keep editting your comments Yellow Man. In response to your previous uneditted message, "You are FAT!", following was my response)
Oh wow Yellow Man!! You are bitter! You must be eating snakes.
Finishing up a "bar of chocolate in 2 minutes", and you address me as fat?
@@Farooq1977 yes, and that is why I am not fat.
@Yellow Man how about we all love each other and share a bowl of mint ice cream
my grandparents grew them in their garden in Sarawak and sell the dried seeds. When price was low the trees were abandoned and they switched to planting the spice pepper. later on i had a chance to supervise the installation of a cocoa processing factory in Shanghai back in 1995. That was quite a learning experience to see the whole process of making cocoa products ( cocoa butter and cocoa powder ) from the dried beans.
I'm impressed. My father works at Malaysian Cocoa Board and he is always explaining to me all the process of making chocolate like you've shown in your video. With the help of your video, I understand more.
mahalo for watching
My grandma made me some when I was little w/o fermentation. We had couple of cacao trees in the backyard. She had the seeds dried under the sun for 2-3 days, roasted 'em, then simply crushed to powder form, added good amount of sugar, stirred, mixing all together and voila! Homemade chocolate! I miss my childhood.
sounds awesome. mahalo for watching
Are you from PR. That's how my grandmother made it but she peeled the beans before grinding them.
this is legit chocolate-smithing. you're forging chocolate. 10/10
fırst of all you mıne the cocoa tree then you put the cocoa beans ınto the furnace and then the output ıs a chocolate bar :p
I'd like to hammer some down.
We were reading about the process the Mayans used to make chocolate and found this video to be a very interesting comparison. Thank you for taking the time to make this video!
You forgot to add the golden ticket
Lol
Hey
😂
omg you just spiked a memory of my childhood
Lol i love Willy Wonka
I'm actually watching this while eating Toblerone. It's amazing how long it took to make it and how quick I can consume it. 😅
Lol
But it is made quicker in factories with more advanced quick ways
Watch Netflix Rotten, bitter chocolate. It actually IS a long process, with very sad background going on
Mmmm I was drinking hot chocoholic 😂 second one tonight
3 months later - have you got all the nougat out of your teeth yet?
i missed those days when my grandma prepared me a hot chocolate drink every morning..her backyard have this kind of tree.. after we ate the cacao fruit she collected the seed and instead of fermenting it, she only washed and dried it under the sun for i don't know how many days and once it dried she grind it directly. that's how she get the chocolate powder.. thanks for this wonderful tree. and thanks for this wonderful video. 😊
Fermenting gives you wine, ;)
ok shut the fuck up no one cares
@@victorromero2621 i wonder what it taste like haha
@@johnnyjoestar4424 poor little one.. too much negativity and insecurity in your system. maybe your family don't love you at all that's why your attitudes like that and maybe you didn't experience having serve a hot choco with full of love by your granny. so sad.
@@johnnyjoestar4424 yes there is someone who cares a lot with my post.. look at you.. 😊 ahahaha.. and don't be mad at me 😊 . i may not be the kindest human on the planet but i swear i am kind with animals.. like you ahahaha.. 😊😊😂
This video was a real treat. Thanks for making it so enjoyable!
I will never complain about the cost of a good chocolate again. Aloha!
yep lot of labor.
All you need is some oompa lumpas and a factory.
i think hes tapped out
And don't forget numerous safety violations.
Yaaasss 😂😂😂💯
FACTS
That would make a great movie!
This guy take ''from scratch ''to a whole new level
ok first step is to synthesize the molecules needed in our mini hadron collider :)
@@justmehere_ and then we will collapse the molecules into a neutron star
Wow this video is so awesome...No wonder chocolate is so expensive it’s a lot of work.... never will complain about the price again. Thanks so much for sharing!!!
I love how unscripted this is compared to most informational TH-cam videos. It feels very genuine
because its out in nature with the real tree and pod itself =D
yeah, I think this will really contribute to my *math homework*
Epic huge math education
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Im fuckin dead lmao 🤣💀💀
“Tim has 20 chocolate bars and Jimmy takes 4 away what does he have left “
*diabetes*
I just want to take a moment to appreciate how easy it is to go down to the corner store and buy a bar of chocolate for a buck.
Capitalismo!
But some people might wanna have fun and make the chocolate, say a little boy’s dad grows cacao beans and they might wanna help make their own home made chocolate.
The reason it's so cheap is because they make up the difference with appalling conditions for the people that grow and process that cocoa at industrial scale. Chocolate's a lovely commodity, but look behind the curtain and it's a miserable business.
Not real chocolate though =/
Real chocolate costs way more than a $1 per bar and isn't available at every corner deli.
@@Mrjmaxted0291 tell that to the Hershey fan. Yoohoo is the smartest of the the bunch with their "chocolate flavored drink."
Incredible. I had NO idea where chocolate came from or how it was made. You're doing a great job. Congratulations, that's quite a skill to acquire. Thank you.
I've never heard of cacao juice and now I really want some.
i want more that wine...
Jolly rancher
Ye men i like choco milk
Is that a picture of Danger?
Cacao juice? I need some of that.
totally didn't even mean to watch this. but got sucked in. awesome!
mahalo for watching
So did I..... Aloha! My parents live in Costa Rica and they grow Cacoa.. They have made there own nibs, but not chocolate.. This process is amazing, and also looks like it takes a long time, and you definitely need the equipment... Fun to watch, though..
Haha. Me too!
Same lol
how did your parents manage to make you so beautiful?
It's fascinating that humans figured out how to do this. It makes me wonder how the first people actually figured out the process. This video was awesome and I appreciate chocolate even more now lol. *Edit* : I could only imagine how hard it was to make before machinery. What a trip.
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It amazes me far more that people ten thousand years ago figured out how to make bread. Let's take the unremarkable seed capsules from grass, dry them, thresh them, separate the chaff, grind them, mix them with water, then bake that dough to get something edible with very little taste. Almost the same process as chocolate.
exactly what I was thinking
My thoughts exactly!
I was thinking about the same thing .....from the cocoa pod to the final chocolate bar there's no apparent connection!!! two totally different concepts !!!!.... same with bread and everything else....... that's why we should think that our culture is a product of a legacy ..... that very well should be from ET origin ..... all concealed by some hidden powers ....
The hardest part for me would be the wrapping of the bar without taste testing it. Awesome video! I never knew so much went into making a bar of chocolate.
I’ve fallen down a hole of watching people produce honey and chocolate and it’s honestly very interesting
Omg same
Angelina Luu I love your pfp! Kookie!
Sameee 😭
Omg.. me too.. just before this I was watching how honey is produced.
Chelsi Marak isn’t it all so interesting?!
This was pretty cool to watch. I had no idea what the beans looked like before fermenting and drying, interesting stuff.
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That white stuff on the beans are really yummy😋
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I have a MUCH greater appreciation for chocolate now! Thank you!
mahalo for stopping by
You and your husband seem like you're having so much fun making that together!
I love when a video shows up and its something i’ve always wondered about but never thought to look for. Great stuff!
I like the idea of him tossing the empty shells at the base of the tree
“Here! Take your dead babies, use them as nutrients to make more babies!”
Lmfao
Dave G. Without context this could land you on a watchlist 😂😂😂
Dude this comment is gold lol
The shells help make compost
The babies are the seeds that our farmer is fermenting; not the shells which are deposited by the tree to decompose and turn into compost. That is how all plants survive and propagate. Where did this foolish notion of cannibalism come from? If you are against eating babies- don’t eat piglets, baby goats, baby chickens and please don’t go to Korea, Philippines, China where they eat the babies alive. Heard of fermented duck eggs? The babies are slowly pickled alive in Philippines and in South Korea they eat the same and eat baby octopus and squids alive while they are squiggling around in vinegar.
I have an aunt who lives in Chiapas Mexico and grows cocoa pods, coffee beans and Cavendish bananas. It's a totally awesome thing to see.
My eyes, mouth and heart were watering at each step. Thank you for this in-depth sight, smell and taste experience to making our beloved chocolate
This was on my recommended
Not disappointed
LMAO Same! I watched on about harvesting Raw Honey and too was NOT disappointed.
It's been on my recommended for 3 months and today finally, i chose to check it out
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@@jonathandouglaslit1138 same lol, I'm glad I finally watched it!!
Wow I did not know there was so much involved in making chocolate.
Thank you so much for sharing
thank you for watching
It's like a matroska. Remove pod, remove pulp, remove shell or what it's called.
Man I'd love to just spend a week with you guys making a batch of chocolate, that would be one of the highlights of my life.
*sign me up*
lol
Dear Gabe, thank you so much for that video. Here in Spain we've been into artesanal chocolate making for a couple of years now and slowly getting to know more about all the steps of the process. This tree-to-bar thing... it is our dream! So nice to see it through your video, inspiring. And in awe of your work, which of course doesn't show so much in a video but obviously there. The growing of the cacao is a real real issue worlwide, wherever you look (South America, Africa,...). So much speculation and distorted interests and horrible practices like child labour, slavery-like jobs, etc. We are in love with chocolate-making Alchemy and it feels so good to see that there are other ways to make it happen. Please keep up with that amazing good work!
I have so much homework and studying to do but here I am watching how to cook chocolate 🍫🤦🏻♂️
same
Same friend's
It's not a waist of time if your homework and exam was on making chocolate.
I can help you out with your homework 📚
@@realish2584 dude that was a month ago
The most fascinating thing is how people figured out that it takes exactly those steps to make delicious chocolate.
The most fascinating thing for me was the ant that was in the cooler full of beans
I agree
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The Cat Legond the most fascinating thing for me was wondering if the ant also went through the bean chipper
Aztecs mixed it with chili and other things to make La bebida de los dioses, Xocolatl
Gabe: "Course you don't want any bugs."
Bugs: Everywhere.
sijjiin sijjiin gross😭
the cooler was so dirty 😳
the cooler was dirty along with the nails of the guy mixing the seeds. that could be chocolate under his nails due to him being a chocolatier, so I will give him the benefit of doubt.
I read this comment as he said it in the video 😂
Wyatt Carlyle I think it’s just from the beans
Thank you for a well documented video on how chocolate is made. I used this in class with my students and it helped them understand and appreciate the effort that goes into making each bar of chocolate. I especially like the fact there wasn't any background music. Well done Gabe, fab job indeed!
You know it's a good video when you don't see comments complaining about why this was recommended to them by TH-cam
Why was this is my recommended?
Yeah a 1 year old video is in my recommended
Come on, it's literally a video showing how CHOCOLATE is made. Of course it's a good video 😂
I love how he whispers when showing off the growing, non ripe pods.
"Shh! Dont wake them, they arent ripe yet!"
Omg! I was thinking the same thing.
Dude mentioning something everybody already seen:
Everybody else: .
Gabe is the man!
Yessssss!
Yeah, that was weird, fact is when you whisper to someone for no reason they will answer whispering too
Appreciation goes out to home growers of all sorts whether it’s chocolate or something else. Hard work and labor is definitely worth it than the factories 🤘
The fact that this fruit turns into chocolate is the coolest thing
Great video!
I love how baffled people are about fermentation and this sort of thing.
Making food was something that a lot of people would have done before getting caught up in today's distractions.
I'm glad that TH-cam is an avenue to share this knowledge with a wide audience, giving the power to the people again :)
After watching this I went and grabbed a bar of chocolate and it really made me appreciate the steps that it takes to make this delicious treat. It got me thinking about how chocolate was first discovered, but now I'm just glad that it was .
cacao juice wine? oh, my GODDDDD! drink of the gods. paradise.
Oh wow now that is a genius idea I would pay good money for cacao wine
This is one of the coolest videos Ive ever seen. It boggles my mind how you keep yourselves from licking the spatula. Awesome
Being able to grow and make your own food is so cool and so important
very important
agreed but not all that easy. fyi.
April 🥀Rose , that's very true, we need to grow what we eat
How on earth did anyone figure out how to do this themselves for the first time ever.. its beyond me
and syrup.. like some random person wanted to chop a tree, get its blood, boil it and put it on a piece of bread like wtf was in there brain...
my guess is that they had a sip of the juice that apparently tasted like chocolate and kept experimenting to make it into solid form. :OO
Refined techniques over centuries. The French probably invented these procedures
Robert Olin there was no chocolate in Europe. The cocoa pods only grew in south and Central America and was used as a drink. The Spaniards took it back to Spain and drank it as cocoa. In 1847 Joseph Fry from England figured how to make it into a harden bar, then a company named Cadbury also from England mass produce them.
Humans are amazing on the things we figure out.
If anyone wants a more technical explanation of tempering, basically the problem with chocolate is that is can form a few different crystal structures, each with different melting points. If you melt chocolate then let it cool, the crystals will form haphazardly and you'll wind up with chocolate that has various non-ideal characteristics. Tempering is done by holding the chocolate at a temperature that is low enough only for the highest melting point structure, and by allowing that structure to grow throughout the chocolate you're minimizing the amount of other types that will be present in the final product. I found it really interesting when i learned that
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Isn’t that what happens when chocolate bars start turning that white color and start having a weird kinda crumbly texture?
Is that what you’re talking about?
I believe that's caused by the undesirable crystal structures growing too big.
Why is chocolate so difficult
You have no idea how long I've been looking for a video like this. I was starting to feel like I could never do this small scale. Thank you sir :)
I just finished uploading a brand new video discussing Cocoa, my video is titled: Cocoa: Food of the God's | Superfood
Appreciate the people who make this process for us to enjoy chocolate.
This is why I love TH-cam .. this was awesome to watch .. great vid
mahalo for stopping by
TH-cam is so awesome
This is probably some if the most wholesome chocolate I've ever seen. Made from scratch without preservatives. It probably has the best taste too.
its soooo good
Sonda Randolph sugar is a preservative. Salt is a preservative. Alcohol is a preservative. I could go on, but the point is theres nothing unnatural about preservatives. It’s better your food lasts long than spoils fast and gets thrown away. What’s gonna make this taste better is the high quality products you could use, so not lots of cheap fats or powdered milk and so on.
I'm attempting making my own chocolate from the cacao pod to chocolate bar, and out of all the videos I've watched on youtube, this has been the best one. Thank you for sharing your process with us!
I grew up helping my grandpa making a cacao chocolate. It is so easy. We will eat it first the fruit the seed and after all seeds we let it dried up in under the sun for how many days. Then when it is really dry we cook it without oil when all of the seeds had turned black and ready for cracking coz u have to remove the skin from the seed then we bring it in the market for grinding. I love the smell of it when it is hot then we mold it sometimes i took small piece roll it in my palm and coated it with white sugar then ate it. 🙃 Childhood memories..
Our grandma used to make us eat the seeds too until it's lifeless :-) then sundried and roasted later on, then remove the shell.
Sounds dank as fu!
Amazing how even the little things like a chocolate bar are taken for granted when there is so much involved from pod to bar. Great video.
Cacao tree: "All you need to do to make my fruit edible is harvest the seeds, ferment for several days with vinegar and yeast, dry the seeds, separate the nibs by hand with grinder and fan, roast the nibs in an oven, grind some more, get some special mechanical mixers and monitor the temperature of each step. Oh and add lots of sugar and butter."
Apple tree: "Hold my cider."
You can eat this when its ripe like any other fruit, just don't eat the seed because its pretty bitter. The seeds you dry and make chocolate. Same as coffee beans.
That's actually not true...
The *fruit* of the cacao plant can be eaten fresh and also juiced just like apples.
It's the *seeds* of the cacao fruit that require the processing to make chocolate.
With apple seeds, it's best not to eat them at all, since they're full of cyanide :D
Lovely I had a whole farm at my back yard I was helping to make some so I got a bar for myself and I knew how to make it from scratch it's so delicious I think I have the Hershey kind
This is easily my 17th favorite TH-cam video ever. Easily.
well thank you
@Daniel wth
Ronster822 what's your list?
What's no°1?
The fermentation looks so funky I would have never thought it was this process.. nice video
I never realized raw cocoa beans looked like chicken.
weird.
everything is chicken in the matrix ;-)
Ittai Klein that’s deep
But, without the feathers.
They're covered with a small film of meat (in Jamaica we eat the meat from the seed raw then we put the seeds out to dry) we roast the seeds.. Remove the shells off the seeds, then we roast it again and them beat it in a mortar until we get a paste....the paste can then be dried and turned to powder to make hot chocolate sweetened with milk
@@Thermalist that's how we make it in Puerto Rico as well
Thank you Gabe. Your true professor of chocolate. Please take care and stay safe. 👍👍❤️❤️😎😎
Brilliant watching this, just when I haven’t got any chocolate in the house. Now I want chocolate!
Same! 😂
So glad I started reading comments before going to far. He should have a disclaimer
Yummy can someone dig up the history of who learned the dos and don't of this amazing how anyone be would know how to do this is this in Hawaii?
Did someone wipe this thread? I remember like a thousand comment long argument that happened a little while back.
Omg, same
If all chocolate was made this way, a Hershey bar would cost a thousand bucks :)
yep
It is made that may it’s just in a big factory
sethmeistergee they have slave labor and children that grow and work the beans so yeah its a big problem with chocolates especially Hersey they are awful about buying from slave labor fields ..
@@eyeamcreated who is hersey i only know hershey lol
@@gabehumphries5483 hershey taste like shit european chocolate is pure heaven
I'm going to eat chocolate with more appreciation, now. Thanks for posting.
Thank you for this nice video of making dark chocolate from cacao bean through the 7 steps, very rare informative video, thank you.
Nice rhythm when you were getting the air out of the molded chocolate. A lot of work goes into a chocolate bar. Thank you for showing this to us, Gabe
shovelhead8 all the hard work is definitely worth it LOL Mahalo for stopping by
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Is there a link to buy chocolate from you guys
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I just saw you wrap that chocolate bar with the hands of an experienced joint roller... LMAO!
could be true
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Gabe Humphries The question is...how stoned where you when you decided you where gonna start making your own chocolate: :D
Don't bogart that chocolate, my friend.
Cool
This is better than big production documentary. Thanks for this!!
much mahalo
The best chocolate making video I've ever seen.
That was a really interesting video to watch. Had no idea the work or time it takes to make a chocolate bar.👍
Now you know...
This is the kinda ish that just makes me appreciate life. Thank you man💯
I didn’t know that conor mcgregor is doing videos about making chocolate
Lol true
Lolol. Soo funny. I laughed out loud!
Lol
😂😂😂😂
I thought he looked like Jeremy Corbyn
Not sure why theres 6k dislikes. Love the authenticity of this video!
"Oh, I didn't show me adding the sugar. :( Oh wait yes i did!" Lol i don't know why but I just thought that part was pretty funny. Just a harmless little mistake, added a much needed bit of humor in this pretty interesting video about making chocolate from scratch. I had NO IDEA this is how chocolate is made. How's chocolate so cheap!?
Zach Proctor you beat me to it
Child labor from South America the farmers and Children are paid extremely low in Hispanic countries for companies like Hershey’s to make profits. It’s pretty sad :(
He's stoned AF LMAO 🤣
Machcines
Automated mass production facilities. Most employees make more than their country averaged median income. Have any of you actually been to south America? Making chocolate for well above you countrys minimum wage is not "sad" down there. its called being saved from what the local gangs will do to your kids.
This dude was quiet around the plants like he didn’t want to wake them up
Lmfao!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Plants are very perceptive to sounds and energy! Healthy plants need love and good energy. Talking to them and saying nice things to them will actually make them grow stronger and healthier than not doing so :)
SummerBrooke YUP YUP! They are living after all. Good music is good for everyone and I don't mean Slayer there metal heads.
@@northamericandragons2038 hey now...I LOVE slayer!! Lol
@@summerbrooke4076 you are correct though!! I would pray every morning in my herb and pepper garden and sing amazing grace as the sun came up. And I had the best herbs and peppers and veggies I've ever grown!!!! Nothing changed but how I sang to them and the positivity that I was putting off towards them. I was amazed! I never believed it to be true, but now I have seen it with my own eyes!!
I thought this would be as boring as hell. But I find the video extremely interesting because you show so many aspects of the problem (that is making chocolate). I doubt where I live in the mainland United States that I'm going to come across a cocoa plant. Although I knew that there was these steps involved in making this product, I'm going to end up having to 'process' my chocolate by going to the store and purchase it under sign that says the chocolate aisle. That's as rough as it gets for me…
i always go back to this video. it honestly gives me so much comfort, reminds me of when i was younger. simpler times :]
You can tell those bars are made with love. I would love to buy.
I'm a chocoholic. This video is pure torture for me since I don't have chocolate in the house;-) Thanks for this informative video.
You´re not a chocoholic if you don´t have a bar hidden somewhere. :D
@@hernanguerrero167 I was lying. So typical of all chocoholics ;-)
@Sick of the divas Jones WOT?!?!?! I am the kind of chocoholic that would stop on every single "kyosko" (as we call them), and buy a bar of whatever chocolate. So my routine was: stop to buy a chocolate bar, walk while eating (or eat while walking), get to the next kiosko and buy another bar, cause I had finished the previous one. I know what lack of chocolate means... it´s despairing. heh
And how come you don´t eat chocolate? you allergic, diabetic, or some kind of crazy person? :D
Peace
LOL
I've been eating quite a few mini snickers since Halloween candy went on sale a week and a half ago. I'll be a diabetic soon
Finally, a youtuber without one of those digital ovens. You know, back in my day our stoves were gas and electric.
Ok boomer
@@orgasmicchickennugget1727 Nobody asked, go back to reddit
What is a "digital stove"?
@@dogge929 you can probably make one using the heat from a laptop that’s been on for a while
@@Narvaljodchik ok boomer
Wow! That great. Very well and simply explained. Thank you for share such great homesteading knowledge. Right now, in my Compound in the village in Abia State, Nigeria I have 10 fruiting cocoa trees wasting. I wish you give me direction on what to do to start up chocolate making in my village. Thanks
That has to be the big island, I know the sound of coqui frogs a mile away
yep
It’s incredible how some Puerto Ricans imported those coquis to Hawaii. Sad, but at the same time, beautiful since many extinct species of coquis are now living peacefully over there. Bless Hawaii
Stephen j lol so can you
@Stephen j so can you if you die i will say ez go brrr into the trash can
Dude those frogs are really annoying lmao. Especially when you're trying to go to sleep. I get where the aggressions coming from. I'm used to it b/c I've lived here for 12 years now but for new people they grow to hate it
I have a feeling that doesent taste like a jolly rancher
Hahahahahahaha🤣🤣🤣😂🤣😂😂😂
It’s actually really sweet but I’ve also never had a jolly rancher before
LMAO 😂
It tastes too bitter
It's sweet and sour. Nothing like choc, yet.
Cacao beans were used as currency in Mayan, Aztec, Toltec, Olmec and even Incan civilizations. Due to labor/time intensive processing, they were worth as much as gold or silver. Coco as we know it, was the pervue of the very wealthy in both the Americas and later Europe 150 to 500 years ago. Only through mass farming and mass industrialization/mechanization/refrigeration/transport, was the cost and labor time brought down to the level where you can go literally anywhere in the world for the last 40 years and buy a bar of chocolate for and average global price between less than one USD to two USD, dependent on the size and type of chocolate.
We live in amazing times folks, but can we appreciate it? Cacao farmers in the Americas as well as Africa still, IMO, are not given fair compensation for their work when viewed on a global economic level. I personally would not mind paying 25 to 50 cents more for chocolate products If I KNEW that the growers were actually recieving that cost benefit.
PS; If you don't like chocolate, you are probably from Alpha Centuri.
Great comment !🐱
what ıs up wıth alpha centaurı? you mean that everyone from earth loves chocolate and you saıd just a random name for a joke lıke "oh ıf you don't lıke chocolate so you are not from earth"
The wages would probably be higher if the welfare state were abolished in America. The majority of larger companies get gouged for taxes and can hardly afford to continue to run their businesses and pay their workers.
@@MrLuigge
It's a joke not a dick. Don't take it so hard.
@@GandalfTheSilver I am not, I just asked if alpha centauri was a chosen random word or something.
Walang pambabastos na naganap...mga malisyusong isipan ang gumagawa ng kabastusan..masaya sila at nag sisisgawan para kela isko at boboy.kaya goodjob po sa inyong dalwa❣️❣️