Very interesting video! I drink this on a regular. Had some today lol. Just to add a little to what was not shown in the video, fermentation takes several days. It will look slimy, moldy, and yes it will be smelly. After that process is over, you spread the seeds out thinly to dry by the sun for a few days. They will be brown at that time. Once dried, you put the beans in a tray in the oven, and you roast/ parch until the shell is able to remove easily. The shelled beans are now ready to pass through a grinder where it will come out warm and melted . During the grinding process, you can add cinnamon sticks , bay leaves, and any other spices if you like, which will be incorporated in the mix. Then you mix thoroughly, let it cool a bit, and then you shape into balls or logs , let dry/ harden and use to make 'hot' cocoa.
I'm a chemical engineering student and I have a big project on cacao drying and fermentation. This video is really helpful to get me up to the basics. I don't usually comment on videos but thank you so much for this really informative and entertaining video!
We have cacao tree in our backyard when i was growing up in the Philippines and we also have guava and mangoes. So the bats at night would eat the mangoes and then sometimes they fall down, and they are still clean so instead of climbing the tree, I eat the fruits that fell hahaha
Thanks for sharing the harvesting, and opening of this fruit. I've never seen it so close up. Did you try the cacao fruit before fermenting it? I've heard its very sweet and delicious.
Also the mass around it all that white mass around it is delicious. if you shew it, you are not going to want to stop. it's one of my favorite things to do when i go in the country here in the Dominican Republic. we have lots of acress of it.
YES! The white fleshy pods are actually a lot healthier than the seed. The seed is not meant to be eaten since nature has designed it to be bitter and gross since the function of it is to grow to another plant. The white fruit doesn't have stimulants in it. Just sugary goodness that tastes like very sweet lemonade!
Great video! Thanks! Your assistant, Lalena (sp?), is beautiful! She also has gorgeous feet! If she's not already modeling her lovely barefeet in shoe ads, she should definitely consider it :) Thanks again for the great content!
Very interesting video! I drink this on a regular. Had some today lol. Just to add a little to what was not shown in the video, fermentation takes several days. It will look slimy, moldy, and yes it will be smelly. After that process is over, you spread the seeds out thinly to dry by the sun for a few days. They will be brown at that time. Once dried, you put the beans in a tray in the oven, and you roast/ parch until the shell is able to remove easily. The shelled beans are now ready to pass through a grinder where it will come out warm and melted . During the grinding process, you can add cinnamon sticks , bay leaves, and any other spices if you like, which will be incorporated in the mix. Then you mix thoroughly, let it cool a bit, and then you shape into balls or logs , let dry/ harden and use to make 'hot' cocoa.
very interesting and well done Jack.
the audio was superb... great birds!
thanks appreciated
Love this channel
I'm a chemical engineering student and I have a big project on cacao drying and fermentation. This video is really helpful to get me up to the basics. I don't usually comment on videos but thank you so much for this really informative and entertaining video!
Glad this video helped! :)
Excellent! I have a tree and want to learn about the fermenting! Thanks... going to Part 2 now.
omg jack that's the Kiskade bird singing in the back ground.. I hear them all day long in Trinidad
Luv the Cacao
I'm in love with the cacao....cacao...
We use the cocoa pod shells once they are dried as fuel wood in our stove for roasting
We have cacao tree in our backyard when i was growing up in the Philippines and we also have guava and mangoes. So the bats at night would eat the mangoes and then sometimes they fall down, and they are still clean so instead of climbing the tree, I eat the fruits that fell hahaha
Thanks for sharing the harvesting, and opening of this fruit. I've never seen it so close up. Did you try the cacao fruit before fermenting it? I've heard its very sweet and delicious.
Are you guys in Trinidad?
I had to harvest these seasonally, very nice when sun dried too
Great but Where is part 2?
CHOCOLATE IS EVERYTHING
very helpful video thank you so much
hmm interesting! not what i expected, so whats the one with the dark brown beans inside it? :P
Come on guys...let's bum rush them for their cacao seeds LOL!
Also the mass around it all that white mass around it is delicious. if you shew it, you are not going to want to stop. it's one of my favorite things to do when i go in the country here in the Dominican Republic. we have lots of acress of it.
Jack are the Nationals or Cirrillo?
you look much better after 3 years
Very interesting!
good video. I just bought only one cacao and I didn't know what to do with it. so I guess I'll have to go to the market and get more. lol.
Ths for video, I've never seen a cacao fruit. I want to know how can they make chocala from this fruit.
Can you do anything with the fruit flesh?
cool stuff :)
Is the white substance edible? Can the beans be eaten straight out of the pod?
YES! The white fleshy pods are actually a lot healthier than the seed. The seed is not meant to be eaten since nature has designed it to be bitter and gross since the function of it is to grow to another plant. The white fruit doesn't have stimulants in it. Just sugary goodness that tastes like very sweet lemonade!
the meat is delicious. something like mangosteen
hi, are these cocoa plants grow in tropics aswell?
nibus9 :O
Wow I did not know cocoa looked like that
he's cool Wild man like wild crats
its bigger than i though... i thought they were like seed sizes or sth
where do you live?
I always wondered if the fruit was edible. It reminds me of squash.
do not cut pods through...damages some beans. crack them, and no damage of beans
glorious facial hair
Good gopp
Better to crack the pods -- with a large stick to avoid damaging beans..
Wat is that noise answer jack
Karen Martinez Issa bird
Great video! Thanks! Your assistant, Lalena (sp?), is beautiful! She also has gorgeous feet! If she's not already modeling her lovely barefeet in shoe ads, she should definitely consider it :) Thanks again for the great content!
Actually Coriander has more Magnesium... Cacao only has 499mg. Antioxidants, Spearmint has more than Cacao. Your welcome
never cut cocoa fruit with sharp knive ;-)
Baba ...Swami
ask emos if you are not sure how to cut XD
girl sounds like katy perry....:)
Suck the seeds. The white stuff is delicious!
leilania is hot.