I bought a couple of high end chocolate bars on sale today for a dollar a piece. Boy do I feel like a sucker, now that I know I could have made my own in just 6 hours of grueling labor.
@@somebody3271 And you know what? Near my house there is a cocoa farm yeah my cousin collect all of it. Then he and his family do the fermentation step, drying step and the roasting step
Lets be honest, chocolate was invented because like everything else, someone tried making alcohol out of it and didn't know what to do with the leftovers
As he sets his army of slave Oompa-Loompas to do his bidding! I mean, seriously! This guy wants us to believe that Oompa-Loompas lived in a ferocious jungle, eating mashed caterpillars, and yet somehow became the best chocolatiers in the world?! Heck no! Loompaland must have been an amazing place at one time for the Oompa-Loompas to have acquired those skills. Tell me, how do you think those whangdoodles and snozzwangers came to the remote reaches of Loompaland in the first place? Something tells me Mr. Wonka might know something he's not letting on about. The only thing Wonka is a master at is manipulation and exploitation. FREE THE OOMPA-LOOMPAS! END THE WONKA COLONIZATION!
I live in Jamaica and those 'cocopods' we just call them chocolate and we eat it raw when we want to. I really enjoyed climbing the trees and picking them with my cousins. They're actually delicious and don't taste as disgusting as you think they look. They were a huge part of my childhood I can definitely say.
I'm from the Philippines and the Cacao fruit pretty much grows everywhere here. Growing up we had one tree at my grandmother's house and every time it bore fruit, my brother and I would consume the pulp and leave out the seeds for our grandma. I always noticed she would leave the seeds to dry in the sun and always wondered what it was for but never bothered to ask. Eventually I realized it was one of the many steps to make hot choco (locally called Sikwate). Looking back, I couldn't believe I overlooked such a wonderful skill to learn and how awesome my grandma is.
@@alexyap9138 ohh!! Cool here we call the chocolate tablea i dont really know if it’s the same with other places tho or if it’s different but i know it’s cacao lmao
We share a common story. I’m from Colombia and when I was a child I used to do the same thing, but in my case, the first time I ate the fruit, I discarded the seeds, and my grandma got mad at me 😅😅
Imagine all the 99.99% of these experiments where it turns out to be absolutely awful, but still important because without them we wouldn't have things like chocolate. So, thank you crazy people who ate all the fermented and awful foods that turned out to be dead ends...
Or nature, fermentation happened naturally it dried out and than someone ate it dried and said wow that taste good. After that generations later we have chocolate bars lol
@@adventuresdaily would still need to come up with the idea of roasting and grinding and all of the other steps etc along the way, but yeah why not. (I'm no expert)
@@Devilsharck yeah nature didnt make the chocolate bar. Clearly that would take human input. I just meant the idea probably started after the bean had already been fermented unless somebody’s really was just into fermentation and was fermenting all types of seeds and things to see what they get and discovered this. Who knows.
No, what most people didn't know is the actual taste of the fruit itself when it's fresh. Try one you wouldn't regret it. It tastes kind of similar to a Philippine fruit called guyabano but on a mellow side.
its really really good actually. my family in south india grew this and my cousin’s grandpa gave me the seeds and i would suck on the seeds to get the fruit out and it was actually really good and tasty
its really really good actually. my family in south india grew this and my cousin’s grandpa gave me the seeds and i would suck on the seeds to get the fruit out and it was actually really good and tasty
I am Indonesian and lived in the countryside when I was kids. I remember, me and my friends, we often ate the cocoa seeds like a candy and spit out the seeds after the sweet sour white part outside disappeared. We picked it from the neighbor’ garden. The fruit make me feel nostalgic. Nice video btw!
My grandparents has this kind of tree in their yard, this is called Cacao here in Philippines.. We always eat the white coating, wash the seed and dry it under the sun.. My grandfather grind the dry seeds in his metal grinder, after that my grandmother make us hot chocolate drink..
@@ISILENTNINJAI As a great example most European cheeses come from priest who due to interpretation of the Bible could not eat meat most of the time. The monotony of cheese led to many priest experimenting with different methods of fermenting and cooking cheese as a way of adding variety to their limited diet.
Unfortunately the mesoamerican civilizations never developed a writing system so the origin of chocolate is lost to pre-history. However we can guess that fermenting and drying things was pretty common, and there were probably people experimenting with different foods. EDIT: In fact the Mayans had a well developed writing system, the Aztecs had a writing system that is poorly understood by modern scholars and the Incans did not have a writing system (instead using a sophisticated system of knot tying called Quipu). The 4 surviving examples of Mayan written documents (the Codexes) contain extensive historical records of celestial events (including historical predictions of eclipses) so it's possible that there were more qualitative historical accounts among the countless thousands of codexes burnt by the murderous Spanish Conquistadors.
Ancient cultures already get to the fermentation and roasting, there is even a traditional drink named pozol made of cacao beans and corn, but or course, the flavor is strong, when the powder was combined with milk in colonial times and was taken to Europe it became popular, and so it became a thing that get to Swiss and kinda go from the more rustic chocolate bar to the dessert it is today
Thank you for such an informative video. Didn't skip any steps for viewer. I read where the they are wanting to reduce the water and recycle process waste used for making coffee from the coffee beans and chocolate. I could see where there is much waste from just a small batch. We need to think outside the box (of chocolates) to modify process so there is less water and waste.
Evidentially we all have a different idea of “disgusting” this is just fermenting. Lots of healthy foods for you are fermented . edit: key words: lots of healthy foods are fermented but not all fermented foods are exactly healthy.
Emily did say "healthy", alcohol is kind of a mild poison... Poison with some fun effects on the body, in moderation 🥴 but it's definitely not healthy.
@@snowps1 We don’t use it freely, ads pay for it or those who use premium pay. Nothing is free under capitalism. Before it was sold to Google it was more free.
here's a tip: use small commercial coffee bean grinder (looks like tiny blender). this way you can knock it while it's running, giving you a very fine powder what somewhat resembles cornstarch
Native Mexican tribes first used it but not sweet , sugar with chocolate mix was by way of Europeans . Mexicans still use it for food preparation of certain dishes like Mole and forms of fermented drinks Atole
Yeah it kinda ruins the experience for me 😂 did you really make chocolate if you needed chocolate...what if we don't have chocolate for when we need to make chocolate...do we just have to work harder to express the oils than you're willing to show? 😩 I'm just going back to bed
I love the fact that here in Brazil, we eat cocoa and use the seeds to make a dessert, but abroad, there are people who don't even know that chocolate comes from a fruit. In fact, we eat the "fruit" and leave the cocoa in the sun to speed up the fermentation process, the process ends in half the time
In Mexico we do all kinds of shit to chocolate due to it being domesticated from here, there’s recipes that date from thousands of years and are still being used today
The Incas are the first people to make chocolates. The white pulp is usually fermented for months to make a naturally bitter alcoholic drink which tasted like beer. Someone must have thought to just roast the seeds and grind it since it is edible. Their chocolate is very bitter though since they don't add milk or sugar
@@ShadowMoon878 Montezuma was said to have consumed 50 gold goblets full of spiced chocolate in a short time. Apparently for the libido boost. It was made with peppers, and a few other spices, iirc. Just imagine if they had sugar. He likely would have developed Diabetes.
@@mlburkh Actually it has been scientifically proven that chocolates do raise your libido. It releases the pleasure hormones much faster, giving you more "hunger" in bed. Btw, spiced chocolate drink is still being made by the Mexicans in the Yucatan and the Peruvians, passed down by the Aztecs and the Incas. It is called Xocolatl.
I feel the same about the invention of coffee. We found those beans that taste like ass. We dry them and they still taste like ass. We roast them to make them smell good but they still taste like ass. If we grind them into a powder and mix it with hot water it still taste like ass BUT... add some milk and sugar and eventually you get used to the taste of ass and then need it every day.
The first liquid chocolate was a frothy drink held in high esteem by the Olmecs, Maya and Aztecs. The first solid chocolate was developed in Europe, which produced what would basically be candy bars.
So impressive that you did this on your own, and really gives you a profound appreciation to the art of chocolate making and the incredible cultures who first cultivated this fascinating plant.
I had a cocoa tree in my house, in the backyard, when I was a kid, here in Brazil. We never made chocolate out of it, but we really loved that pulp. It seems a little gooey, but it’s actually delicious!
I'm Brazilian but unfortunately where I live there isn't much cocoa trees, my mom and I have always wanted to make chocolate from zero, but cocoa is expensive :/
Yoo, that an opportunity. As far as I know, cocoa needs a warm and sunny environment all the time, so ain't no way we would get one here in the south. The inwards reminds me of jackfruit
Things like this leave me in awe of human curiosity and ingenuity. To think of what the first person to discover this process must have been thinking along the way, to go from seeing the weird mess inside these pods to processing the beans etc. and making chocolate
Same, you just wonder how that thought to take the seed and process it like that came from, among many other genius stuff humans have come up with. If only humans could stop all the strife and madness and concentrate on unearthing the potential we have...
@@maximumforce8275 you can eat it. and fun fact sometimes coconut will grow a fruit inside the fruit. It's white and taste delicious. it's not easy to find
They didn't make chocolate bars, that was after discovering the Americas, cocoa was so precious it was even used as money. Tribes used to make a drink with it and a lot of spices and that's it, if I remember correctly, there's a legend of an Aztec emperor who ate 40kg of cocoa daily.
@@gageunruh3574 apparently alcohol and its effects were discovered by eating rotten fruit. I can imagine that in that climate there would be a lot of rotting cacao fruit, especially before this process was developed. It is then quite easy to just leave the beans out to dry/roast in the hot midday sun. Also, there was a lot more agriculture going on than these days and finding and improving products for consumption was their work.
I'm from Mexico, country where the cocoa beans were discivered by the spanish and in the history of the contry it says that the mesoamerican cultures used to use cocoa beans as a soup with chile wich made it spicy
Well, it's not labor intensive at all, when you can automate most of the processes, AND double/triple/quadruple the yield by milkifying the chocolates, dark chocolate can be pretty expensive though, depends on the purity you buy. :P All of a sudden the pricing makes sense. :D
@@hollowplastic1871 In many countries (especially Africa) there are many people who are forced into slavery to produce sugar and cocoa. Also, the people who are paid are not payed a livable wage and live in extreme poverty.
Guy who did this first must have been an unparalleled genius but he probably looked like a maniac. Imagine how many times he had to say “leave me alone, I know what im doing”
you can avoid that, but it will super bitter. factory made has multiple type chocolate from cocoa. and they still mix each types to give different taste. The reason: fermenting and roasting process effected the whole taste.
I guess this is why natural processed coffee has always a very dark chocolatey undertones to it, chocolate and coffee are both seeds and especially being natural processed they're both fermented within their "shells" / mucous / flesh so to speak. Fascinating.
"Dude no! What have you done?!" "Sorry i accidentally fermented and dried the cocoa beans for a few days, then roasted them, ground them to powder and accidentally mixed it with butter and sugar and let it cool...." "We cant sell these anymore... wait let me taste... WOOOW"
Well, to be fair to history... the Aztecs and Mayans only did up to through the grinding part. Then they drank it, usually with ground chili peppers. It's understandable, though... there was no sugarcane in the Americas. Somebody from Europe decided to mix it with sugar and later milk. Arguably, though, the first part to get to a ground state WAS the one requiring the most leaps of faith! Anyway.. yeah, historical cooks were definitely crazy and inventive... but sometimes the crazy did come in multiple phases.
@@angelaviskaa Yeah, basically? Imagine taking baking chocolate, melting it, adding a little water and chili powder, and then drinking it. I've had it... once was enough. But I'm sure it appeals to some!
So let me get this straight a dude who had severe alcoholic problems wanted alcohol but was too poor to afford it so he tried making his own alcohol but making alcohol was illegal so he tried to make solid form of alcohol, so he tried to make it but it was a disappointment so he gave his 5 year old nephew the "*Mysterious*" bar and his nephew ate and got drunk but when he tasted it, it was sweet so he thought of an idea mass produced it and now we have the choco........late?
This just leaves me wondering who the first person to sit down and figure out how to make chocolate like this was and how they even figured out "oh hey, I can turn this weird seed goop into chocolate"
@@AnupBose99 it depends on the fermentation I guess, because I went to a chocolate factory once, and the fermentation Chambers smelled like the cocoa fruit, but a little bit more intense. Nothing like a sour or rotten smell.
Honestly it's almost inconceivable from my perspective. that you wouldnt know that the plant is used to produce chocolate because that's literally its primary application for the fruit. But then again I've known how chocolate was made since I was like 6 because we made it as a class experiment when I was in elementary school.
Hi! im from Ecuador, and here we make chocolate, a good way to ferment the seeds when making a small chocolate ball is to let then ferment inside the bean, just make a small hole to start it, the flavour is stronger and richier that way, this is not used on industry
I actually needed this video because we have an old cocoa tree just sitting around. Very active in bearing fruit but i honestly don’t know how to make chocolate from it and i kept forgetting to research about it. Awesome video btw, very informative.
The white pulpy is super yummy, too. Even if you don't make chocolate out of it just enjoy the actual fruit. In Guatemala we snack on the pulp and make juice out of it too.
If it's just you or a family member eating the chocolate, you can eat the sweet coating of the beans. Back in my small town, where cocoa trees are in abundance kids take it for granted, families eat the sweety pulp. And then put out the beans in the sun to dry(why waste it?). That's how we used to make chocolate. Since it's just us family members eating our own, and the sun just dries it out so thoughts of gross saliva is out (but if that just makes you uncomfortable you can not eat it and just forward to drying it).
I wonder what Mayan just woke up one day and decided: “you know what? I think I am going to ferment some cocoa beans, dry them up, roast them, grind them, mix the powder with sugar and oil , melt it up and then cool it down, just too see how it tastes
Since alcohol is a lot more famous , they wouldve tried the same for cocoa , fermenting it , and all those procedures to make alcohol , wouldnt have worked the way he wanted it to , so he might have experimented other ways with the other batches of fermented cocoa which ended up in chocolate ,... idk might be even many generations experimented with cocoa
It was westerners that invented the bar, and treats, hot cocoa came first and was seen as a sacred religious drink in mayan cultures and some westerners tried it and were like, damn, that’s pretty goo, but bitter, put sugar in it and hot chocolate came from that and then they made chocolate afterwards
The Fermentation probably wasn't their first idea. They probably ate them raw 1st. Then probably tried mashing them and adding Sugar. Realized maybe they'd be good lightly Roasted, accidentally dried them completely and killed the cocoa flavour. So he fermented them to make the flavour stronger. Then he roasted them again, ate the powder, loved it, added back some moisture & flipped his shit for Melted Chocolate. Left it to cool and was even more amazed when it hardened.
Dude was probably a royal's farmer who probably got fucked on some opium one day(most likely with his family or coworkers) and he just happened to pick out the damn tree while on the go. Just imagine a discount Danny Trejo looking guy who's sitting in the corner, just manically grinding nuts and people are walking by seeing this shit.
Just took a chocolate making excursion on a Caribbean cruise! You nailed the steps perfectly. And our bars also came out fantastic. Yes, the white goop was edible and tasted good, although our host said to spit out the center seed/nib. :) thanks!
Invader Jet If they were starving and desperate then they'd probably just eat the cacao bean on it's own. Actual chocolate is probably the result of an accident or too much free time
Since cacao and vanilla beans Originate from Mexico, The chocolate beans are grinded in a mexican molcajete it is made of volcanic rock, It is very much like a mortar and pestle. However the major difference between a mortar and pestle and a molcajete is that it is made with that grey volcanic rock you see in your video, the azteks used it and it is still used today in mexico to make salsa and Cacao paste and many other uses as well.
Fronks, I'm a Mexican who lives in Mexico city. Molcajetes are still used in the countryside but I have a one and I do use it instead of a blender, specially to prepare 'salsa'. Let me tell you a salsa prepared in a blender can't match the flavor of one prepared in a molcajete... yummy 😋! Saludos! 🕊️🙏🏼
Finally... I am not stupid anymore when it comes to chocolate... And the transformation of the bean process...first time saw documented. Thanks a lot, man!
Small tip! instead of throwing away the shells after roasting the beans, you can use them to make a cacao infusion. It's not only really tasty, but it's also good for blood pressure
They were the equivalent of the modern hipster who's into microbrewing and fermented foods and is looking around like, "hmmm, what else could I pickle? Never tried that with pears yet, let's give it a shot". Some ancient Mezoamerican foodie was getting just VERY creative
In order for it to be actually disgusting, the process would have had to start with extracting the beans from a civet's feces. Otherwise, it's just a fruit that doesn't quite start out looking like the end product.
i wonder who made chocolate because im sure he didnt use chocolate to make chocolate / no offense Flavor Lab / anyways looks like some good chocolate Flavor Lab
Probably cuz most of this process can be automated very quickly, too bad that most of the cocoa that comes out is from child work, but it's chocolate so oh well whatever
The “first guy” to do a lot of things really had to be a great salesman. “Seriously people, trust me, this will knock your sandals off, if you have any.”
@@tomminton5512 Tbf, I could see it happening with a dude that had a young child but not newborn, his woman dies or something happens that prevents her from breastfeeding her child, there aren't any other lactating women in the tribe but his kid isn't old enough for solid foods. Then they sees an animal feeding it's young with milk so in a bid of desperation they milk the animal and uses it as a supliment for the child and it (kindof) works. Then it becomes common to use animal milk for older babies to supliment breastmilk and ease them into eating solid foods so mothers have more time for non-baby related things and humans start keeping livestock for that purpose. Then a handful of people don't stop drinking the milk as they grow up and never become lactose intolerant like humans normally would - and thus a new foodgroup is born!
When I was a kid, we always go to a cacao farm on my way home from school. The farm owner would allow us eat the cocoa pods to remove the pulp and just keep the pods alone. And then they will sundry all of it before roasting to produce chocolate. It's some sort of mutualism. We will get full because of eating the pods and they save manpower for removing the pulp manually. Twas a great experience of my childhood.
@@sweetfreeze5528 we ate the white layer covering the pod leaving the seeds alone. It's a little bit sweet and sour. Similar to cotton fruit but a milder taste.
Hey, nice vid. :) If you'd like, have a tip from a Brazillian: try to buy/import "Cupuaçu" and "Cacauí" and make the same process with them. They are very close relatives of cocoa (we call it "Cacau", btw) and make distinctive products when processed just like the cocoa. Cupuaçu, for example, becomes cupulate, its equivalent to chocolate. :)
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The fleshy portion is either sour or sweet depending on the type of breed of the cocoa plant. Once it is kept for fermentation and dried it tastes bitter. My parents own cocoa farm
I used to eat the flesh when I was a kid and I really liked the taste, although it varies between trees, thankfully our own tree produces a sweet version.
@@Blergph oh lol, most of us Latinos come from indigenous people, my grandmother is indigenous and I have native blood, but I really don't know if it will be Mayan blood or something like that lololol
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Can Nutella be made out of banana 🍌?
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that's nut.
Thank you this made me crave chocolate now and it's 42 c outside 😂😂😂
Banana is a fruit Nutella has nuts made out of
whoever first made chocolate really said “trust the process”
Joel Embiid voice😂🤣🤣
This deserve more likes
“It’s quetzacoatl’s will man trust me”
STAN LOONA
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Weird that chocolate is white and Vanilla is black.
I was thinking the same thing lmao
Only the membrane around the bean is white, the actual bean is still dark brown.
@@shimik11 thanks for curing my existential crisis
@@lilsquidyyy you're welcome.
Then you are brainwashed
To the brave individual who first cracked one of these open and said: "I'm gonna eat that..."
To the brave individual that decided to eat the white stuff the comes out of your front
To the brave individual who pressed that wired thing under a cow and said "I'm gonna drink that"
You've never eaten it?
@@lockheedmartin286 Yes so brave....
You can eat the white flesh though...its sweet.
I bought a couple of high end chocolate bars on sale today for a dollar a piece. Boy do I feel like a sucker, now that I know I could have made my own in just 6 hours of grueling labor.
And like 40 dollars I think
For the beans
@@somebody3271 And you know what? Near my house there is a cocoa farm yeah my cousin collect all of it. Then he and his family do the fermentation step, drying step and the roasting step
@@lingling5555 of course LING LING🐒
And a week of fermenting
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Lets be honest, chocolate was invented because like everything else, someone tried making alcohol out of it and didn't know what to do with the leftovers
Wow
:D
That is the role of most discoveries....mistakes turning out with benefits haha
That's it. That's the history of food.
Sounds about right.
How did the first person to make this even know how to do this
Time travel.
:O
must be smarter than us
Woah! Alan, you too watch this type of videos?😂
This video duh
"Chocolate making is hard"
Willy Wonka: I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that.
LOL
As he sets his army of slave Oompa-Loompas to do his bidding! I mean, seriously! This guy wants us to believe that Oompa-Loompas lived in a ferocious jungle, eating mashed caterpillars, and yet somehow became the best chocolatiers in the world?! Heck no! Loompaland must have been an amazing place at one time for the Oompa-Loompas to have acquired those skills. Tell me, how do you think those whangdoodles and snozzwangers came to the remote reaches of Loompaland in the first place? Something tells me Mr. Wonka might know something he's not letting on about. The only thing Wonka is a master at is manipulation and exploitation.
FREE THE OOMPA-LOOMPAS! END THE WONKA COLONIZATION!
@@justgettingby7725 we wont even talk about all the paperwork and passports needed to get those little fuckers back
But the candyman can.
Willy Wonka never sad it was easy, he said it was delicated and complex
For the grinding of the seeds into a fine powder I suggest using a coffee grinder.
I was going to suggest the same thing. We use one to turn our turmeric into powder.
@@StevePorter_au I use mine to chop up my weed.
Or just jump on it
@@vinniequodling1678 does that work? 🤔👀
@@jammy3662 Obviously it seems.
I live in Jamaica and those 'cocopods' we just call them chocolate and we eat it raw when we want to. I really enjoyed climbing the trees and picking them with my cousins. They're actually delicious and don't taste as disgusting as you think they look. They were a huge part of my childhood I can definitely say.
Indeed the white membrane surrounding them (not the seed itself) is tasty and edible
Same girl same
I live in Indonesia, and we did it too! It was fun when we were child and climb the tree to pick the "chocolate" fruit
I'm from Kerala, India... Me too have same childhood memories... Even now we eat it
Same like in Indonesia we call them chocolate fruit
I thought that was a bug in the thumbnail
I thought it was teeth!
Woah! It's the horizon! Your videos are great dude
Me either
Yoo my man
@@dhruvsoni4657 lol ur taking advantage of this guys comment cause hes vertified
I'm from the Philippines and the Cacao fruit pretty much grows everywhere here. Growing up we had one tree at my grandmother's house and every time it bore fruit, my brother and I would consume the pulp and leave out the seeds for our grandma. I always noticed she would leave the seeds to dry in the sun and always wondered what it was for but never bothered to ask. Eventually I realized it was one of the many steps to make hot choco (locally called Sikwate). Looking back, I couldn't believe I overlooked such a wonderful skill to learn and how awesome my grandma is.
which part of the ph are u from? 😁 im from ilo
@@justmar4918 Cebu :)
@@alexyap9138 ohh!! Cool here we call the chocolate tablea i dont really know if it’s the same with other places tho or if it’s different but i know it’s cacao lmao
me too! Our Cacao tree is bearing fruits now as well!
We share a common story. I’m from Colombia and when I was a child I used to do the same thing, but in my case, the first time I ate the fruit, I discarded the seeds, and my grandma got mad at me 😅😅
Who even discovers these things and then realizes that it’s actually edible? It’s amazing
Mexicans
Very hungry people.
very hungry mexican
very hungry mexican people
Imagine all the 99.99% of these experiments where it turns out to be absolutely awful, but still important because without them we wouldn't have things like chocolate. So, thank you crazy people who ate all the fermented and awful foods that turned out to be dead ends...
Whoever discovered how to turn a bean like this into chocolate is a genius
I highly doubt it was just one person. Most likely discovered and refined through generations of trial and error.
Or nature, fermentation happened naturally it dried out and than someone ate it dried and said wow that taste good. After that generations later we have chocolate bars lol
@@adventuresdaily would still need to come up with the idea of roasting and grinding and all of the other steps etc along the way, but yeah why not. (I'm no expert)
@@Devilsharck yeah nature didnt make the chocolate bar. Clearly that would take human input. I just meant the idea probably started after the bean had already been fermented unless somebody’s really was just into fermentation and was fermenting all types of seeds and things to see what they get and discovered this. Who knows.
Mayans did
“Making this food is more disgusting than you think”
*And I don’t care because it tastes good*
lol
It wasn't disgusting at all
Well cooking meat or any fish is disgusting cuz u slice it and have to get the guts out and other things beside the smell
Fr 😂
Same thing goes for hotdogs.
It was not at all disgusting. It's actually satisfying.
True
I agree. It doesn’t look gross at all. In fact it looks rather fun.
@@scarletwarlock3261 agreed, it was really interesting and informative too
it's their attempt at clickbait advertising for people to click. Clearly we fell for it
yep i thought it actually looked cool
No, what most people didn't know is the actual taste of the fruit itself when it's fresh. Try one you wouldn't regret it. It tastes kind of similar to a Philippine fruit called guyabano but on a mellow side.
I'm brazillian and i've eaten several of them fresh. It isn't too much of my liking but oh boy my family sure loves it
I knew it lol. I when I first saw the thumbnail I thought “wait cacao beans look like Guayaba or Guanabana!!”
its really really good actually. my family in south india grew this and my cousin’s grandpa gave me the seeds and i would suck on the seeds to get the fruit out and it was actually really good and tasty
its really really good actually. my family in south india grew this and my cousin’s grandpa gave me the seeds and i would suck on the seeds to get the fruit out and it was actually really good and tasty
@@maddyyy_ocampo6799 unfortunately it's a completely different fruit though haha. There are similarities however but very slight.
“Just...trust me on this...”
-The first person to ever make chocolate.
Yep
Probably a time traveler
You mean Willy wonka
@@Mr2BonClay but wouldn’t the time traveler also nvm
I don’t get it. How on earth is it disgusting?? Y’all must have low bars for disgusting..
The fact that chocolate takes so long to make...
But such a short time when you're eating it.
That's all foods lol
Me everytime I cook:
At least it fills your stomach up a bit?
@Team Go Green it is cheap its hard if you do it home cook but not if you use machines
Im feeling sad about the kids how doing all the job in africa
"making choco is a disgusting process"
*Goes to kitchen to get chocolate*
"This is where the fun begins"
@Cheap good quality æ
@Jas ツ what did he say?
@Jas ツ what did the person say?
@Jas ツ what did the guy say?
@Jas ツ What did he say?
I am Indonesian and lived in the countryside when I was kids. I remember, me and my friends, we often ate the cocoa seeds like a candy and spit out the seeds after the sweet sour white part outside disappeared. We picked it from the neighbor’ garden. The fruit make me feel nostalgic. Nice video btw!
The process of making it may seem disgusting, but the results are worth it
Yep! So worth it.. :D
You again
Yeah
Bruh i never seen you this early
True
My grandparents has this kind of tree in their yard, this is called Cacao here in Philippines.. We always eat the white coating, wash the seed and dry it under the sun.. My grandfather grind the dry seeds in his metal grinder, after that my grandmother make us hot chocolate drink..
In Africa its cocoa
@@breanna1360 no
@@vynpine3521 Yes!
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@@vynpine3521 yes
How the hell did people back in the day even think about performing all these steps to make chocolate?
Pure curiosity. Everything ever invented was done by some crazy person who was curious to try just about anything.
@@ISILENTNINJAI As a great example most European cheeses come from priest who due to interpretation of the Bible could not eat meat most of the time. The monotony of cheese led to many priest experimenting with different methods of fermenting and cooking cheese as a way of adding variety to their limited diet.
Unfortunately the mesoamerican civilizations never developed a writing system so the origin of chocolate is lost to pre-history.
However we can guess that fermenting and drying things was pretty common, and there were probably people experimenting with different foods.
EDIT: In fact the Mayans had a well developed writing system, the Aztecs had a writing system that is poorly understood by modern scholars and the Incans did not have a writing system (instead using a sophisticated system of knot tying called Quipu).
The 4 surviving examples of Mayan written documents (the Codexes) contain extensive historical records of celestial events (including historical predictions of eclipses) so it's possible that there were more qualitative historical accounts among the countless thousands of codexes burnt by the murderous Spanish Conquistadors.
@@TonkarzOfSolSystem
They treated cocoa similar as coffee or tea didn't they? As there is some caffeine in cocoa.
Ancient cultures already get to the fermentation and roasting, there is even a traditional drink named pozol made of cacao beans and corn, but or course, the flavor is strong, when the powder was combined with milk in colonial times and was taken to Europe it became popular, and so it became a thing that get to Swiss and kinda go from the more rustic chocolate bar to the dessert it is today
LOVE that he showed all of the pieces from cacao pod to the nibs to the end. Very helpful.
"Ok so hear me out"
-some Aztec like 4,000 years ago
Bahahah
They likely fermented the beans for alcohol.
Lmao 😂
Aztecs weren't around 4,000 years ago. They were around when the Spanish arrived but did not date back even close to 1000 years ago.
@Dan
I think you may have to double check that one chief, i'd google it but I can't atm. They're def a really old civilization iirc.
The thumbnail looks like how I smiled in all my class pictures.
LMAO
I can't unsee a smile now😭
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NOOOO LMAOAOAOAOOAAO
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I was expecting something gross involving bugs or animals but it's literally just fermented lol. man has a low bar for disgusting
Yeah... A lot of things are fermented
Luckily, I already knew. 🙃
lol its clickbait
I thought the insides of the cocoa pods looked gross.
@@Nico-jc7zr it looks like the inside of a custard apple
Thank you for such an informative video. Didn't skip any steps for viewer. I read where the they are wanting to reduce the water and recycle process waste used for making coffee from the coffee beans and chocolate. I could see where there is much waste from just a small batch. We need to think outside the box (of chocolates) to modify process so there is less water and waste.
Him: the making process of chocolate is disgusting!
Everyone: dont care still gonna eat it
I learn how to make chocolate before
@@V4llerinaaa good job
@@V4llerinaaa great job.
Well, living beings are disgusting mashesh of flesh and blood, still living
Cocoa is one of the best tasting fruit
Evidentially we all have a different idea of “disgusting” this is just fermenting. Lots of healthy foods for you are fermented .
edit: key words: lots of healthy foods are fermented but not all fermented foods are exactly healthy.
Fermented soy bean
Beer
Wine
Emily did say "healthy", alcohol is kind of a mild poison... Poison with some fun effects on the body, in moderation 🥴 but it's definitely not healthy.
We love 'em up north. red beets are yum!
"Now we roast the beans"
*Starts yelling insults*
Y e s
😭that was so stupid but funny
This made me laugh way more than it should have
R o a s t t h e 🅱 e a n s
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8:51 after a week and a half working on creating your dark chocolate from scratch....add a piece of dark chocolate!!🤣🤣😩
I live near Hershey, PA. When they would roast beans at the factory the whole town smelled like chocolate.
@The White Abolitionist Controlled Opposition shut up
@The White Abolitionist Controlled Opposition you're right that child labor is bad but capitalism brought you UA-cam which you use freely.
@@snowps1 We don’t use it freely, ads pay for it or those who use premium pay. Nothing is free under capitalism. Before it was sold to Google it was more free.
@@snowps1 If you're receiving something from a business for free, it means you are the product.
@The White Abolitionist Controlled Opposition is this satire?
Title: Chocolate be disgusting.
Thumbnail: Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
U r of bipc
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Lmaoo😂😂
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WHAHAHAHAHAHA- ew.
I have a big respect for the chocolate inventor...cause How can we imagine a cacao can actually turn into that..like waw
Yeah it whaws me a lot
What if I told you, They make it to drug people and turn them horny.
@@caretakercat7176 LMAOAOOAOAOAOAOAOAOAO NO WONDER WHY IM ALWAYS ACTING WEIRD EVERYTIME I EAT CHOCOLATE
@@lavendarsage1779 the exact reason i loved 99% dark chocolate it turned me on..
@@caretakercat7176 💀💀
here's a tip: use small commercial coffee bean grinder (looks like tiny blender). this way you can knock it while it's running, giving you a very fine powder what somewhat resembles cornstarch
The Mayans were absolutely special people. They gave us chocolate.
Totally underrated creators
@@makanaki513 agreed
They probably went demented with sugar and killed each other...just like us now
mexicans because we make the best food
Native Mexican tribes first used it but not sweet , sugar with chocolate mix was by way of Europeans . Mexicans still use it for food preparation of certain dishes like Mole and forms of fermented drinks Atole
You adding chocolate to make chocolate gave me a "youbneed experience to get a job but you need to get a job to get experience" vibe
😂😅
Help me ratio the comment above (I need more likes than the comment above for funny)
You need chocolate to make chocolate. You need money to make money.
Yeah it kinda ruins the experience for me 😂 did you really make chocolate if you needed chocolate...what if we don't have chocolate for when we need to make chocolate...do we just have to work harder to express the oils than you're willing to show? 😩 I'm just going back to bed
Think of the seed chocolate like a sourdough starter or a mother of any sort like for fermenting kombucha etc.
"Making chocolate is a pretty disgusting process"
**Totally normal and unsurprising process**
Still, nice video though
Hey, gotta pull in the views somehow lol
@@gecgec3409 true lmao
You have no idea how bad it smells.
To some people fermentation still is gross, I guess
What? I found the coco bean to be pretty disgusting. It's like pulling brain out.
Thanks!
I love the fact that here in Brazil, we eat cocoa and use the seeds to make a dessert, but abroad, there are people who don't even know that chocolate comes from a fruit. In fact, we eat the "fruit" and leave the cocoa in the sun to speed up the fermentation process, the process ends in half the time
Plus, there's the effect of the saliva enzymes on the chocolate bean.
Same in Jamaica 🇯🇲
Everyone doesn't know it's from plant?
In Mexico we do all kinds of shit to chocolate due to it being domesticated from here, there’s recipes that date from thousands of years and are still being used today
same here in asia. i love the pulp of coca fruit more than the seed itself.
First person to make chocolate: OOPS I just accidentally harvested, roasted, grinded and mixed all of these ingredients and made something delecious!!
The Incas are the first people to make chocolates. The white pulp is usually fermented for months to make a naturally bitter alcoholic drink which tasted like beer. Someone must have thought to just roast the seeds and grind it since it is edible. Their chocolate is very bitter though since they don't add milk or sugar
@@ShadowMoon878 Montezuma was said to have consumed 50 gold goblets full of spiced chocolate in a short time. Apparently for the libido boost. It was made with peppers, and a few other spices, iirc. Just imagine if they had sugar. He likely would have developed Diabetes.
@@mlburkh Actually it has been scientifically proven that chocolates do raise your libido. It releases the pleasure hormones much faster, giving you more "hunger" in bed.
Btw, spiced chocolate drink is still being made by the Mexicans in the Yucatan and the Peruvians, passed down by the Aztecs and the Incas. It is called Xocolatl.
I feel the same about the invention of coffee. We found those beans that taste like ass. We dry them and they still taste like ass. We roast them to make them smell good but they still taste like ass. If we grind them into a powder and mix it with hot water it still taste like ass BUT... add some milk and sugar and eventually you get used to the taste of ass and then need it every day.
The first liquid chocolate was a frothy drink held in high esteem by the Olmecs, Maya and Aztecs. The first solid chocolate was developed in Europe, which produced what would basically be candy bars.
I don't see any "disgusting" things, I've seen hard work to make this thing that many people loves :)
@@quarantine3888 haha me too
@@quarantine3888 same XD
ig what they mean by disgusting is you have to ferment the coaco beans idk
@@jaanachristian5120 fermentation is cool xd, kinda nice to see the bubbles and the change in color
Yus
So impressive that you did this on your own, and really gives you a profound appreciation to the art of chocolate making and the incredible cultures who first cultivated this fascinating plant.
I had a cocoa tree in my house, in the backyard, when I was a kid, here in Brazil. We never made chocolate out of it, but we really loved that pulp. It seems a little gooey, but it’s actually delicious!
I'm Brazilian but unfortunately where I live there isn't much cocoa trees, my mom and I have always wanted to make chocolate from zero, but cocoa is expensive :/
Yoo, that an opportunity. As far as I know, cocoa needs a warm and sunny environment all the time, so ain't no way we would get one here in the south. The inwards reminds me of jackfruit
ya here in india there are also many cocoa trees near my house and sometimes I go and pick some and make chocolates
A mi me recuerda a la chirimoya
What a great perk, for a kid, of living there!
me when he added a piece of chocolate to the chocolate mix:
*he used the chocolate to make the chocolate*
Lol same dude idk why anyone Didn't notice That
@Linerdas Vourtn u should leave youtube if u wanna advertise
He used chocolate to make the chocolate but the first person to make chocolate didn’t have chocolate
Me too, this is the easy mode 🤣🤣
@@SocialExperiment232 yeh I was wondering how they actually "did" it.
Things like this leave me in awe of human curiosity and ingenuity. To think of what the first person to discover this process must have been thinking along the way, to go from seeing the weird mess inside these pods to processing the beans etc. and making chocolate
Same, you just wonder how that thought to take the seed and process it like that came from, among many other genius stuff humans have come up with. If only humans could stop all the strife and madness and concentrate on unearthing the potential we have...
Calm down Shakespeare it’s just a UA-cam cooking video.
@@TheBeigeRaider says just a UA-cam cooking, highly likely can't even cook, put up your awesome video then that you reckon is more valuable
I was always curious as to how humans discovered sex!and like how did the first person feel about it?
@@Φαντασμόφατσας Thats like saying how did humans discover drinking water or breathing air 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Have we tried doing that with any other fruit? Maybe we're missing out on some amazing flavors.
Don't try it with apples
@@darioaguilarlopez9083 yea
@@darioaguilarlopez9083 huh? Why?
@@sidra6918 apple seeds contain cyanide
@@darioaguilarlopez9083 I recommend eating a few thousand apple seeds (atleast 150) each day for a lovely jittery effect.
Makes me wonder which delicious things we are missing out on just because we need a whole chemistry lab to turn it into actual food.
This is why it never hurts to experiment. Imagine if we found a use for coconut flesh other than shavings
@@maximumforce8275 you can eat it. and fun fact sometimes coconut will grow a fruit inside the fruit. It's white and taste delicious. it's not easy to find
@@maximumforce8275 and there's something on the tree you can eat other than coconut.
@@sem6045 Isn't chemistry by hand, but with gloves on?
@@sem6045 chemistry badd!! - a person using a device and world heavily reliant on chemistry
The fact that this was invented a long time ago, can you even imagine how they even thought of this? Seriously 😂
Probably was making alchohol and just decided to experiment with extra cocoa beans since I hear that the process isnt that different at the start
I mean cavemen made fire without knowing it exists. Many things are discovered by accident.
They didn't make chocolate bars, that was after discovering the Americas, cocoa was so precious it was even used as money. Tribes used to make a drink with it and a lot of spices and that's it, if I remember correctly, there's a legend of an Aztec emperor who ate 40kg of cocoa daily.
@@gageunruh3574 apparently alcohol and its effects were discovered by eating rotten fruit. I can imagine that in that climate there would be a lot of rotting cacao fruit, especially before this process was developed. It is then quite easy to just leave the beans out to dry/roast in the hot midday sun. Also, there was a lot more agriculture going on than these days and finding and improving products for consumption was their work.
I'm from Mexico, country where the cocoa beans were discivered by the spanish and in the history of the contry it says that the mesoamerican cultures used to use cocoa beans as a soup with chile wich made it spicy
no part of this was disgusting, however it was interesting and informative, thanks!
Yup
There was. The fermenting part
The fermenting, makes me glad smellovision isn't a thing.
@@MzwandileHarmans almost everything has to be fermented, yogurt, cheese, beverage, wine
@@Kav_himself. Lol. My comment didn’t say the opposite
Dang. Prices on chocolate seem real cheap now given how labor intensive it is.
Slave labor + factory processes
Well, it's not labor intensive at all, when you can automate most of the processes, AND double/triple/quadruple the yield by milkifying the chocolates, dark chocolate can be pretty expensive though, depends on the purity you buy. :P
All of a sudden the pricing makes sense. :D
Here in India, Coco beans are very cheap. Please let me know if anybody wants huge amount Coco. I can export. Thanks - Jerin Mathew
Prices are indeed cheap. Reason is CHILD LABOR
Wow, I'll never complain about the price of chocolate again.
ALCHOLOHOL CHOCHLOT
@@Peach_Lobot0my yes frank, alcohol chochlot
Yeah, unfortunately it’s that cheap because it’s unethically sourced using sl*ve labor.
@@Marixchatt What do you mean by slave labor? You mean people working a job?
@@hollowplastic1871 In many countries (especially Africa) there are many people who are forced into slavery to produce sugar and cocoa. Also, the people who are paid are not payed a livable wage and live in extreme poverty.
Guy who did this first must have been an unparalleled genius but he probably looked like a maniac. Imagine how many times he had to say “leave me alone, I know what im doing”
Is it a Kimi reference?
@@slf1239 to be honest with you, I hadn’t fully decided. Didn’t think anyone would get it if it was, but since you asked let’s say yes.
I believe they just ate the leftover seeds and liked it because chocolate makes you feel good so they grounded it and mixed with water
Chocolate as we know it came from a very long process evolution.
yeah dude things are not discovered in a vacuum, this process was build on previously known processes.
“Homemade Chocolate”
One step: So add a piece of dark chocolate not made by yourself
I can’t wait for the recipe... add
1/4 cup of cocoa butter
A pinch of salt
1 square of Hershey’s dark chocolate
🍫
you can avoid that, but it will super bitter. factory made has multiple type chocolate from cocoa. and they still mix each types to give different taste.
The reason: fermenting and roasting process effected the whole taste.
Why do people have to be so snarky about this? Do you know how to do it? Have you made anything from scratch.
I enjoyed watching it and learned a lot!
Always with the quips
I’m just making a joke lmao, sorry if it wasn’t to your standards
I guess this is why natural processed coffee has always a very dark chocolatey undertones to it, chocolate and coffee are both seeds and especially being natural processed they're both fermented within their "shells" / mucous / flesh so to speak. Fascinating.
The seeds look like large larvae in the beginning and almonds midway.
They look like teeth! Like it's a pod person with just the teeth!
Yes and that large larvae stage is what almost ends your chocolate obsession. Almost!
am i the only one that think they look like yogurt covered almonds?
To me, that photo of the opened pod, resembles a baked potato with a cooked lobster tail tucked inside. Yum.
I thought that it was a worm.
"Dude no! What have you done?!"
"Sorry i accidentally fermented and dried the cocoa beans for a few days, then roasted them, ground them to powder and accidentally mixed it with butter and sugar and let it cool...."
"We cant sell these anymore... wait let me taste... WOOOW"
🤣
Well, to be fair to history... the Aztecs and Mayans only did up to through the grinding part. Then they drank it, usually with ground chili peppers. It's understandable, though... there was no sugarcane in the Americas. Somebody from Europe decided to mix it with sugar and later milk. Arguably, though, the first part to get to a ground state WAS the one requiring the most leaps of faith!
Anyway.. yeah, historical cooks were definitely crazy and inventive... but sometimes the crazy did come in multiple phases.
Better than "what should we do with this dead horse?" "I don't know. Boil the hell out of it. See if we can stick things together"
@@Swiftbow so they drink it bitter like how people drink coffee?
@@angelaviskaa Yeah, basically? Imagine taking baking chocolate, melting it, adding a little water and chili powder, and then drinking it.
I've had it... once was enough. But I'm sure it appeals to some!
I'm sure whoever invented this was trying to find another way to get drunk.
which means the first ever made chocolate was a disappointment compared to the expectations =D
Not that far of. The pulp was highly valued in various Mesoamerican civilizations because they would ferment it.
High*
They actually created alcoholic drinks with it so you're right.
So let me get this straight a dude who had severe alcoholic problems wanted alcohol but was too poor to afford it so he tried making his own alcohol but making alcohol was illegal so he tried to make solid form of alcohol, so he tried to make it but it was a disappointment so he gave his 5 year old nephew the "*Mysterious*" bar and his nephew ate and got drunk but when he tasted it, it was sweet so he thought of an idea mass produced it and now we have the choco........late?
This just leaves me wondering who the first person to sit down and figure out how to make chocolate like this was and how they even figured out "oh hey, I can turn this weird seed goop into chocolate"
"Making chocolate is a lot more disgusting than you think"
*proceeds to just show how it's made*
i don't see a problem with this xD
The whole fermentation process is grosse and have unpleasant smell.
But it's worth the wait and effort for a delicious chocolate.
@@AnupBose99 it depends on the fermentation I guess, because I went to a chocolate factory once, and the fermentation Chambers smelled like the cocoa fruit, but a little bit more intense. Nothing like a sour or rotten smell.
@@JotaC Did you get a golden ticket too?
@@marcusbailey3988 funny
@@JotaC factory and homemade environment is different. I have done it many time in my home. It has smell at fermentation time.
I used to eat a lot of these back in the days, never thought that I'm literally eating raw chocolate, lol. We call it cacao fruit
Well the plant is called cacao/cocao, it's just used to make "chocolate", the plant itself isn't known as that.
@@qr-code6334 Cocoa
Did you eat the membrane or the bean or both?
@@alexandergeorgiev2631 We suck the white thing around the seeds inside the cacao
Honestly it's almost inconceivable from my perspective. that you wouldnt know that the plant is used to produce chocolate because that's literally its primary application for the fruit.
But then again I've known how chocolate was made since I was like 6 because we made it as a class experiment when I was in elementary school.
Imagine when you take 2 months to make a chocolate but you just take 2 minutes to finish eating it
That's why you bulk make it
Best part of making chocolate is when you add chocolate. It really comes together well.
Hi! im from Ecuador, and here we make chocolate, a good way to ferment the seeds when making a small chocolate ball is to let then ferment inside the bean, just make a small hole to start it, the flavour is stronger and richier that way, this is not used on industry
Such valuable insight! Thank you sir.
Thank you
Great tip thanks sir
I actually needed this video because we have an old cocoa tree just sitting around. Very active in bearing fruit but i honestly don’t know how to make chocolate from it and i kept forgetting to research about it. Awesome video btw, very informative.
The white pulpy is super yummy, too. Even if you don't make chocolate out of it just enjoy the actual fruit. In Guatemala we snack on the pulp and make juice out of it too.
If it's just you or a family member eating the chocolate, you can eat the sweet coating of the beans.
Back in my small town, where cocoa trees are in abundance kids take it for granted, families eat the sweety pulp. And then put out the beans in the sun to dry(why waste it?). That's how we used to make chocolate. Since it's just us family members eating our own, and the sun just dries it out so thoughts of gross saliva is out (but if that just makes you uncomfortable you can not eat it and just forward to drying it).
Or you can do Cocaine.
@@lollloooollll yes please 😜
@Pter Odactyl wow cool. I hope you get to try making it. Hahah
I wonder what Mayan just woke up one day and decided: “you know what? I think I am going to ferment some cocoa beans, dry them up, roast them, grind them, mix the powder with sugar and oil , melt it up and then cool it down, just too see how it tastes
Since alcohol is a lot more famous , they wouldve tried the same for cocoa , fermenting it , and all those procedures to make alcohol , wouldnt have worked the way he wanted it to , so he might have experimented other ways with the other batches of fermented cocoa which ended up in chocolate ,... idk might be even many generations experimented with cocoa
It was westerners that invented the bar, and treats, hot cocoa came first and was seen as a sacred religious drink in mayan cultures and some westerners tried it and were like, damn, that’s pretty goo, but bitter, put sugar in it and hot chocolate came from that and then they made chocolate afterwards
They didn't mix it with sugar that was an European thing
The Fermentation probably wasn't their first idea. They probably ate them raw 1st. Then probably tried mashing them and adding Sugar.
Realized maybe they'd be good lightly Roasted, accidentally dried them completely and killed the cocoa flavour.
So he fermented them to make the flavour stronger. Then he roasted them again, ate the powder, loved it, added back some moisture & flipped his shit for Melted Chocolate.
Left it to cool and was even more amazed when it hardened.
Dude was probably a royal's farmer who probably got fucked on some opium one day(most likely with his family or coworkers) and he just happened to pick out the damn tree while on the go. Just imagine a discount Danny Trejo looking guy who's sitting in the corner, just manically grinding nuts and people are walking by seeing this shit.
Just took a chocolate making excursion on a Caribbean cruise! You nailed the steps perfectly. And our bars also came out fantastic. Yes, the white goop was edible and tasted good, although our host said to spit out the center seed/nib. :) thanks!
"Making chocolate is a lot more disgusting than you think" how; and what's shitting it out?
Just poop out a shit and mix it with some sugar and butter
Boom, homemade chocolate
@@blackman5867 LOL that’s not how chocolate made its so much than you think
@@luelageneta_ R/WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HAHAHAHA
The Easter bunny
@@luelageneta_ r/woosh
When you watch stuff like this it makes me think how in the hell did someone first discover chocolate
Probably starving and desperate
Invader Jet If they were starving and desperate then they'd probably just eat the cacao bean on it's own. Actual chocolate is probably the result of an accident or too much free time
@@eliselo9073 probably lol
It looks like they were trying to make alcohol or coffee-like drink until someone added sugar and milk.
Wasnt alcohol discovered by accident? Im sure i read bread was left in water or something.
Since cacao and vanilla beans Originate from Mexico, The chocolate beans are grinded in a mexican molcajete it is made of volcanic rock, It is very much like a mortar and pestle. However the major difference between a mortar and pestle and a molcajete is that it is made with that grey volcanic rock you see in your video, the azteks used it and it is still used today in mexico to make salsa and Cacao paste and many other uses as well.
Cacao and vanilla beans originated in tropical climates not mexico
and Guacamole
@@pineapplechunk9740 Mesoamerica, which Mexico is part of. So really, it is semantics.
seams nice to eat
Fronks, I'm a Mexican who lives in Mexico city. Molcajetes are still used in the countryside but I have a one and I do use it instead of a blender, specially to prepare 'salsa'. Let me tell you a salsa prepared in a blender can't match the flavor of one prepared in a molcajete... yummy 😋! Saludos! 🕊️🙏🏼
Finally... I am not stupid anymore when it comes to chocolate... And the transformation of the bean process...first time saw documented. Thanks a lot, man!
Small tip! instead of throwing away the shells after roasting the beans, you can use them to make a cacao infusion. It's not only really tasty, but it's also good for blood pressure
Infusion of what?
@@humancomputerinteraction8237 …chocolate?
@@humancomputerinteraction8237 in other words: make tea with them!
@@AnnaParva Oooh, thank you for spelling it out! I didn't know an infusion was just tea
Cocoa tea?
That sounds tasty
Kudos to the people who just took the cocoa fruit and said "lets see what does this do" and started to experiment with it
**Let’s see what this does (sorry to be annoying it’s just sometimes people aren’t native speakers)
@@citrus_sarcasm4058 oh its alright, im not from english speaking region
I imagined it to be similar to how you process coffee, but I never knew there were a few extra steps.
They were the equivalent of the modern hipster who's into microbrewing and fermented foods and is looking around like, "hmmm, what else could I pickle? Never tried that with pears yet, let's give it a shot". Some ancient Mezoamerican foodie was getting just VERY creative
@@gabija5304 why do I want to try pickled pears so bad rn.
The first people who figured out how to do this were absolute fucking madmen.
They 100% got diabetes
Yeah that gives me curious that who made the chocolate in the first place
Makes you wonder right
Curiosity happens
Its not human discovered chocolate. Its ALIEN guys
Whoever discovered how to make chocolate from this deserves recognition and respect!
"is alot more disgusting than you think"
well that was a frickin lie
In order for it to be actually disgusting, the process would have had to start with extracting the beans from a civet's feces. Otherwise, it's just a fruit that doesn't quite start out looking like the end product.
@@axebomber2108 o-o
@@axebomber2108 i searched it up, now I don't want to drink coffee anymore
it's called clickbait
@@Toxic-sd1xe duh
This is more interesting than school.
This IS school.
It’s all about how you approach it.
Agreed🤣🤣
Yes
You cheated
Honestly yes
He used the chocolate to make the chocolate. Some kind of candy Thanos.
I was thinking the same thing
Perfectly balanced as all things should be
i wonder who made chocolate because im sure he didnt use chocolate to make chocolate / no offense Flavor Lab / anyways looks like some good chocolate Flavor Lab
Wouldn’t that be cheating tho
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 this is the comment i was looking for
That's an incredible amount of work. I'm surprised chocolate doesn't cost more.
Probably cuz most of this process can be automated very quickly, too bad that most of the cocoa that comes out is from child work, but it's chocolate so oh well whatever
Processes can be automated, and the yield can be quadrupled when you make lighter chocolate, like milky chocolate for example...
Inventor of chocolate: Trust me
Everyone: No, I don't think I will
Think about the person who figured out about milk 🤔
@Linet Akinyi uhhhhh yeahhhhhhhh
@Linet Akinyi BEASTIALITY
mexicans because we make the best food
@@wickedhouston5538 I mean… he’s got a point.
"This took me 2 months to make"
Willy Wonka: *pathetic*
"ompa duma dumpty dú there legs are weird because he broke their knees!"
Lmao
Oompa loompa doompa de doo
Someone should tell Augustus the chocolate river was poop
lmao
The “first guy” to do a lot of things really had to be a great salesman.
“Seriously people, trust me, this will knock your sandals off, if you have any.”
I'll bet the first guy that discovered you could drink animal milk was into some pretty wierd stuff
Humans are morons, usually it’s an “accident” that people discover things…
Usually, meaning 99% of the time.
Imagine the first guy to talk a girl into a BJ
@@tomminton5512 Tbf, I could see it happening with a dude that had a young child but not newborn, his woman dies or something happens that prevents her from breastfeeding her child, there aren't any other lactating women in the tribe but his kid isn't old enough for solid foods. Then they sees an animal feeding it's young with milk so in a bid of desperation they milk the animal and uses it as a supliment for the child and it (kindof) works. Then it becomes common to use animal milk for older babies to supliment breastmilk and ease them into eating solid foods so mothers have more time for non-baby related things and humans start keeping livestock for that purpose. Then a handful of people don't stop drinking the milk as they grow up and never become lactose intolerant like humans normally would - and thus a new foodgroup is born!
@@Neion8 Thank god, I thought you were responding to the comment above yours at first...thanks for sharing your perspective.
This must be one of the most wholesome video i have seen on yt
When I was a kid, we always go to a cacao farm on my way home from school. The farm owner would allow us eat the cocoa pods to remove the pulp and just keep the pods alone. And then they will sundry all of it before roasting to produce chocolate. It's some sort of mutualism. We will get full because of eating the pods and they save manpower for removing the pulp manually. Twas a great experience of my childhood.
sameee
Wow, that’s very wholesome :)
So what part did you eat? What part did the farmer need? I'm confused on this 🤔
@@sweetfreeze5528 we ate the white layer covering the pod leaving the seeds alone. It's a little bit sweet and sour. Similar to cotton fruit but a milder taste.
@@IAmJrv oh ok. Thanks 👍
When I was child, my friends and I like to pick the chocolate fruit. We ate the flesh snd throw the seed. It's really sour but we liked it.
If its sour its not ready but if it is its really sweet and when We finish eating with my friends we give it to my grandma because she loves it🤗
You meant kakao or cocoa, yes its true u can eat the inside and its sour but when it already processed its really sweet
Same here
Lmao it's not sour 😂
Some Old Malaysian peoples do that too
Me: still trying to figure out which part of this is “disgusting”
Edit: yes, click bait is a possibility. I think enough people said so :I
Same, maybe the cocoa beans but it's not that bad
IKR! Maybe he meant the white pulp covering the cocoa beans. But they just look exactly like the white pulp covering the custard apple seeds!
same! I thought that those white things were teeth at first! I was like what? Do they use some part to make it hard?
Click bait title and pic got you and got me too! 6.5 million views and counting...
for me its the first part when he cuts the fruit in half
Hey, nice vid. :)
If you'd like, have a tip from a Brazillian: try to buy/import "Cupuaçu" and "Cacauí" and make the same process with them. They are very close relatives of cocoa (we call it "Cacau", btw) and make distinctive products when processed just like the cocoa. Cupuaçu, for example, becomes cupulate, its equivalent to chocolate.
:)
This wasn't disgusting for me it was satisfying
right, he used the word disgusting for click bait
yea
@@megansalt Yeah, it was a little clickbait-y, still a good video though lol
The pods look like the seeds Morty got intimate with.
"Intimate" indeed
They look exactly the same yeah
waaaay up in there morty
Huh if that seed was a mutated Cocoa bean then it kind of makes sense of how it gives energy but plugging it in is Rick and Morty logic.
The mega seeds
very very underrated
Yes
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You know the rules and so do I
A full commitment's what I'm thinking of
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Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it
Inside we both know what's been going on
We know the game and we're gonna play it
And if you ask me how I'm feeling
Don't tell me you're too blind to see
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Never gonna make you cry
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Never, ever desert you
We've known each other for so long
Your heart's been aching but
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Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
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@@rempuia69 never though I'd get rick rolled on UA-cam in 2021... you got me😔
True. The yellow fruit has the highest quality.
True!
@@rempuia69 ⁰
I have a cocoa plant at home. I really enjoy eating the fruit part.
I’m glad that UA-cam recommended this masterpiece to me
But we can't do chocolate at home so expensive
One pieeeece
🗣️Straaaaaaaawwwww hat
I agree
@@jackh.3052 It’s just for the enjoyment
It's kind of sad that the delicious flesh of the cacao pods gets lost in the process and nobody knows how it tastes like.
People who live where the pods grow certainly know
As a someone who tasted the flesh of the pods, it's pretty decent, although bit sour
The fleshy portion is either sour or sweet depending on the type of breed of the cocoa plant. Once it is kept for fermentation and dried it tastes bitter. My parents own cocoa farm
I used to eat the flesh when I was a kid and I really liked the taste, although it varies between trees, thankfully our own tree produces a sweet version.
It's sweet, my cousin has some trees growing in their backyard
Oh yeah, now I see that my ancesters loved to ferment things.
Even in India we have an item that solidifies as temperature increases imagine how ?
An aztec descendant!! Tell me about the aztec. Tell me all. They were so cool and awesome and I want a legit grandchild to tell me about them.
Ancestors** not to be a grammar/spelling stickler, just sharing :)
@@Blergph oh lol, most of us Latinos come from indigenous people, my grandmother is indigenous and I have native blood, but I really don't know if it will be Mayan blood or something like that lololol
It's kinda cute that you need a piece of finished chocolate to finish your about-to-finished chocolate.
It’s kinda gross but it tastes great.
Any food is like that essentially.
fr,,,only fruits aren't lol.
@@Celestials1aurora i love fruits😔
@@Celestials1aurora if you really think ab it fruits can be pretty gross
@@Celestials1aurora fruits are literally plant ovaries, kinda nasty if you think about it too much
@@mg-sp5ou yea same ;d
"Once reached the goal , no one sees the sacrifices and the process you went through to get there"
-Sun Tzu , the art of war
Wow deep
Tf
True
Probably some people here: *wEiRd, dIsGusTaNg, bugs*
Nothing is disgusting, except the hands wasn't washed.
It was probably washed
Minus parasites, bugs can be somewhat clean depending on the type, like maggots, them hoes'll clean your wound in a pinch, leaving them in until you're ready to treat the wound so long as they don't burrow or something works.
EDIT: Still, flamethrower the whole thing.
It doesn't look disgusting to me because when I was a kid me and my cousins always eat those
I'm pretty sure he washed his hands before he started recording
yeah that thing in the thumbnail actually tastes Majestic...depends....
its not a bug..