In general, I don't have a lot of links here. If you would like to be here, I would like it to be related to chocolate somehow, although the relation could be quite meanderous. Just ask. If I think it should go here, I may well ask you for a reciprical link and there you are.

Sweet Maria - Coffee Home Roasting. The techniques for roasting coffee and cocoa are the essentially the same.

Chocophile - A really good introduction to high end Criollo and variatal chocolate.

CrankandStein is a producer of high quality metal grain mills for the homebrewing market, and now our supplier for cocoa mills. They are presenting doing some more R&D work for us for a conche/refiner.

RK Drums - They make a very nice stainless steel roasting drum that fits on your gas grill. The drums are made for roasting coffee. I see no reason what so ever that you could not roast 3-4 pounds of cocoa in one also.

Buzzroaster - Another roasting drum of a slightly different design than the RK Drum. Also stainless steel and built for coffee.


Now these next are a little different. For some of you who desire to take the next step, there is a fine Professional Chocolatier School called Ecole Chocolat. I may well find myself there in a the future.

In addition, if you want to get some of the final tempering and molding techniques down (or maybe just want some good bulk chocolate) Ecole also has a fine list of sources.

Someone pointed out to me that September 23 is Chocolate Day. I will have to check it out as this is my Daughter, Logan Genevieve's, Birthday. As that is sort of double celebratory, Ecards has some cute chocolate based cards.

Culinary schools is another good resourse for those really serious about their food, cooking, supplies and raw ingredients.

And for those who are just chocolate lovers, Wayne has put together a rather complete list and evaluation of milk chocolates on his site. He also has some really interesting other sections that are not chocolate related.