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.
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♥️😇
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.
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 .
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.
The Spaniards took them there from Mexico. The very word Chocolate is derived from an Ancient Mexican Nahuatl word, Chocolate is purely Mexican like Avocados, PopCorn, and Tomato.
@@leemorales3884 Explain to me why Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and other South East Asians have these species grown in that part of the world. Let me tell you that the Spaniards has never conquered the entire Philippines like what the books are saying. The Muslim sultanates from the South are always in battle with them. And Manila was an ancient city port where Chinese, Indians, Malay, Kingdom of Brunei was trading goods long before any European came. To say that the fruit from Mexico is ignoring the fact that the Europeans were looking for goods like gold and spices from the unknown world. These fruits are native to SE Asia, for this is the only area in the world where all kinds of good fruits and crops are thriving.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
@@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
when I was a kid, me and my friends usually harvested these and ate those white part of the seeds like a candy, it taste very sweet. The seeds, without knowing what are their use, we threw it after we finished the white part.
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!
Hey Gabe! This is such a beautifully documented video from a 'Bean to Bar' process. Thank you so much for sharing this with us. Really enjoyed watching this, so real, so rustic & pure information + chocolate. Cheers! 🍫❤️
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!!!!
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.
@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 :) ;) czcams.com/video/8wpAvXR6wl0/video.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?
This video is awesome! Thank you so much for doing it. I got to take some chocolate classes in culinary school and I still learned so much from this. You packed an amazing amount of information into 20 minutes and kept it very interesting. Thanks again!
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.. 😊😊😂
Thnx for showing us from start till the end,, tough i was thinking it was made out of cocoa powder but now i witness how the chocolate bar is made in its raw form..!!
I wondered how long it would take for people to get around to growing cacao trees on the Hawaiian islands. Hawaii is tropical, enjoys a lot of sunshine and rain, and its volcanic soil is incredibly fertile. Fruits and vegetables grown in Hawaiian soil tend to have a sweetness to it, like Maui onions. But for the better part of two centuries, no one considered growing cacao trees in Hawaii, something you would think would be obvious. Cacao bean trees are very picky. They like subtropical climes, found up to 40 degrees latitude on each side of the equator. This means lots of sun and heat and rain. Yet the cacao tree is peculiar, it needs to grow in the shade of taller trees. So hang on, folks. Let's watch the video and see what happens.
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
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!!
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.
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 ....
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’m a self confessed chocoholic, I often wonder how the first people to make chocolate actually figured the process out initially. I realise that the process will have been refined over time. I’ll never know how anybody doesn’t like chocolate, a big mystery to me!! Thanks for showing us the home made way. 👍👏😍
It's probably likely in the same way certain alcoholic drinks were discovered. Sometimes fruits and nuts stashed by animals are left and forgotten. They ferment for awhile and were later discovered by people. Just a guess on my part
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.
Hi! Greetings from London. 🇬🇧 We are homeschooling in lockdown and just watched your chocolate making video for our school lesson. It was brilliant! We just wanted to say a big ‘thank you’. You’ve also got us craving Homestead chocolate, although a bit tougher to make in old London Town than beautiful Hawaii. Thanks again. Aloha from Cat (mum), Maisie (age 10) & Marlon (age 8) 🤙🏽
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.
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
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..
When drying the beans, could you dry them by smoke-drying? I love the taste of chipotle, so using mesquite to dry the beans would infuse an extra layer of flavor.
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❣️❣️
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
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.
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 ..
that was cool! My 8year old son and I watched your video for his Homeschool, Lockdown 3 project on making chocolate. It made him want to have a go but we live in England!!
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?
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 🤘
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.
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 😂
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♥️😇
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
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
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.
When i was a boy (late 80s to mid 90s), there were plenty of those in my grandparents backyard in the Philippines.
The Spaniards took them there from Mexico. The very word Chocolate is derived from an Ancient Mexican Nahuatl word, Chocolate is purely Mexican like Avocados, PopCorn, and Tomato.
@@leemorales3884 Explain to me why Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and other South East Asians have these species grown in that part of the world. Let me tell you that the Spaniards has never conquered the entire Philippines like what the books are saying. The Muslim sultanates from the South are always in battle with them. And Manila was an ancient city port where Chinese, Indians, Malay, Kingdom of Brunei was trading goods long before any European came. To say that the fruit from Mexico is ignoring the fact that the Europeans were looking for goods like gold and spices from the unknown world. These fruits are native to SE Asia, for this is the only area in the world where all kinds of good fruits and crops are thriving.
@@skywarp8655 bruh Columbian Exchange 🤦♂️
@@nunyabiznes33 Your Colombian Exchange was much later. I'm talking pre-European trade.
@@skywarp8655 the Spanish brought cacao to the Philippines. Hinay lang sa sobrang Pinoy Pride.
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."
All you need is some oompa lumpas and a factory.
i think hes tapped out
How to make eads flower
And don't forget numerous safety violations.
Yaaasss 😂😂😂💯
FACTS
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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 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
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
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
when I was a kid, me and my friends usually harvested these and ate those white part of the seeds like a candy, it taste very sweet. The seeds, without knowing what are their use, we threw it after we finished the white part.
Tastes so much like banana
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 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
It's true it's true lol that makes them cannibals of their own species then if it gives them nutrients to grow more babies insane.
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!
Hey Gabe! This is such a beautifully documented video from a 'Bean to Bar' process. Thank you so much for sharing this with us. Really enjoyed watching this, so real, so rustic & pure information + chocolate. Cheers! 🍫❤️
You forgot to add the golden ticket
Lol
Hey
I understand the reference.
UMPA LUMPA DUMPA DIM POO...
😂
omg you just spiked a memory of my childhood
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.
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!!!!
The fact that this fruit turns into chocolate is the coolest thing
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.
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 :) ;)
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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
This video is awesome! Thank you so much for doing it. I got to take some chocolate classes in culinary school and I still learned so much from this. You packed an amazing amount of information into 20 minutes and kept it very interesting. Thanks again!
This is the first time I’ve seen this: it’s an eye opening. I still have no clue if I want to go about doing it. Thanks for the video.
I found it cool 2
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.
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 live in Ireland and managed to grow one of those trees
I’m proud
Booo, Wendy. Booo.
Really that's great it's mostly grow on a different continents. But it's interesting as ya just said 🤩
I know this is from many years ago but thank you for sharing the art of my favorite addiction ❤
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.. 😊😊😂
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*
Thnx for showing us from start till the end,, tough i was thinking it was made out of cocoa powder but now i witness how the chocolate bar is made in its raw form..!!
I wondered how long it would take for people to get around to growing cacao trees on the Hawaiian islands. Hawaii is tropical, enjoys a lot of sunshine and rain, and its volcanic soil is incredibly fertile. Fruits and vegetables grown in Hawaiian soil tend to have a sweetness to it, like Maui onions. But for the better part of two centuries, no one considered growing cacao trees in Hawaii, something you would think would be obvious. Cacao bean trees are very picky. They like subtropical climes, found up to 40 degrees latitude on each side of the equator. This means lots of sun and heat and rain. Yet the cacao tree is peculiar, it needs to grow in the shade of taller trees. So hang on, folks. Let's watch the video and see what happens.
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
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.
You and your husband seem like you're having so much fun making that together!
i always go back to this video. it honestly gives me so much comfort, reminds me of when i was younger. simpler times :]
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!!
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
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Thanks for sharing this. I enjoy watching cacao trees and how its fruit being processed to make chocolate!
This is amazing no words can describe this video and the amazingness it has. Thank you so much.
I will never complain about the cost of a good chocolate again. Aloha!
yep lot of labor.
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 ....
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’m a self confessed chocoholic, I often wonder how the first people to make chocolate actually figured the process out initially. I realise that the process will have been refined over time. I’ll never know how anybody doesn’t like chocolate, a big mystery to me!! Thanks for showing us the home made way. 👍👏😍
It's probably likely in the same way certain alcoholic drinks were discovered. Sometimes fruits and nuts stashed by animals are left and forgotten. They ferment for awhile and were later discovered by people. Just a guess on my part
@@KB-fk3jj Yeah and like so many other things we love such as ice cream it was happened upon whilst doing something very different. Thanks.
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
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.
Hi! Greetings from London. 🇬🇧 We are homeschooling in lockdown and just watched your chocolate making video for our school lesson. It was brilliant! We just wanted to say a big ‘thank you’. You’ve also got us craving Homestead chocolate, although a bit tougher to make in old London Town than beautiful Hawaii. Thanks again. Aloha from Cat (mum), Maisie (age 10) & Marlon (age 8) 🤙🏽
That looks pretty difficult. Finished bar looks wonderful 👍 Lovely to see homestead industry.
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?!
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
That's a labor of love! Thank you, Gabe, for sharing! 💯
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My favorite mulch is cocoa bean. It is neat to see each step in the process of you making Chocolate. Well done.
I spent my last 20min at working learning how to make chocolate. lmao
a good 20mins
Lol!
Meanwhile I spent 20min in the toilet making choc.
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 very much for showing how to make chocolate from scratch. This is a great learning process.
Thanks for taking time to show us around. 👍
I love how unscripted this is compared to most informational CZcams videos. It feels very genuine
because its out in nature with the real tree and pod itself =D
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!!
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
My full respect to whom making a chocolate from the scratch 🙏🍫🍫❤️
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?
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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This dude is very chill..relaxing to listen to..
When drying the beans, could you dry them by smoke-drying? I love the taste of chipotle, so using mesquite to dry the beans would infuse an extra layer of flavor.
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
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
OMG I love this. I love chocolate too. It's amazing to see how it's made. I want to spend my life making chocolate (and eating it 😋).
This is absolutely fascinating! Thank you for sharing! 😃
> final tomorrow that determines whether I pass or fail
> clicks on video about making chocolate
good times
O. Hoffman lmao literally i have a history exam
I have a social studies exam
@@offeibekoe452 I have crippling depression!
I’m so glad I’m not in school anymore. Not so fun times ....
Me, following steps
Him: ferment for about five days
**Pauses video for five days**
ScreamingSundae ROTFLMFAO!
that's the largest acronym iv'e seen yet lol
Hopefully you know what it stands for, if not I’ll tell you!
SoonToBeAsh it means Rolling On The Floor Laughing My F*cking A** Off!
Im pretty sure you can figure out what I censored for you!
Surprisingly, he cant
The best chocolate making video I've ever seen.
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❣️❣️
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
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
After watching this i ran out to our town fancy chocolate shop and bought some good chocolate but i want to buy some chocolate from you
I always come back to this video it’s so calming hearing the jungle sounds
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"jungle sound"
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
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 ..
@@eyeamcreated8271 who is hersey i only know hershey lol
@@gabehumphries5483 hershey taste like shit european chocolate is pure heaven
I find it amazing that you can take the lid off that grinder without it stopping to prevent hand injury.
that was cool!
My 8year old son and I watched your video for his Homeschool, Lockdown 3 project on making chocolate. It made him want to have a go but we live in England!!
7:12
"Course you don't want any bugs"
Bug immediately crawls into view
Lol
Hard to see at first sight
Yes
I still can't see it
Bruh
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.
seriously one of the best videos I've seen in a long time!!! Good on you mate!!
Not sure why theres 6k dislikes. Love the authenticity of this video!
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 know it's a good video when you don't see comments complaining about why this was recommended to them by CZcams
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 😂
This was a really nice and informative video to watch =)
Thank you for showing us how it´s made :)
Thank you for this nice video of making dark chocolate from cacao bean through the 7 steps, very rare informative video, thank you.
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 🤘
I can see why chocolate is so expensive. Even automation and mass production would have to have a lot of work involved.
The most important reason is cacao pods takes a long time to ripe, consumes a lot of water, and grow exclusively in hot, Equatorial environment.
How wonderful! Thank you so much for letting us chocolateholics know the secret of our favorite food🤪❤🙏🏼🎉
Thank you Gabe. Your true professor of chocolate. Please take care and stay safe. 👍👍❤️❤️😎😎