Ready to embark on a chocolate-making adventure? Great, but first you need tools! Professional chocolatier Simon Knott explains what chocolate making machines and equipment you need for your new hobby or home enterprise, plus tips for buying the best quality tools for your needs.

Therefore flow properties are usually measured at a temperature of 40°C, which is close to the temperature that chocolate melts in our mouths. So texture sensations like a smooth melt or a sticky behaviour are usually correlated to flow properties.

So we’ve pulled together 21 essential baking tools (for chocolate desserts and so much more) that’ll help you turn your kitchen into a temporary bakery, fondue spot, or sweet shop.

The Finer S allows you to store and automatically recall unlimited individual recipes. Ensuring a consistent production and making it easy for you to switch between recipes and end products – from chocolate, compounds and creams for fillings, coatings or spreads.

Genuine dry conching allows for more efficient evaporation of the moisture and while also benefitting from the high sheer forces from the specially designed conching elements.

Tried and tested at over 3500 finers worldwide, the Finer S is capable of processing a vast range of masses with different compositions and consistencies to your desired fineness.

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Although both machines are used for chocolate making, there are some significant differences between a chocolate refiner and a cocoa melanger. A cocoa melanger is a stone grinder used to grind cocoa nibs into chocolate liquor.

• Comprehensive suite of control and monitoring functions including maintenance, energy monitoring, storage and downloading veri for production along with safety protection and process monitoring

Our Chocolate HORIZONTAL BALL REFINER services and training are designed to keep you up to date on products and technologies, giving you the confidence and experience you need.

Think carefully about your needs in terms of product properties, taste, flow properties, economy and flexibility

Yes, the product outlet will connect to existing process equipment (with a triclover or your preferred connection). The melter also includes a triclover connection at the rear of the tank for product return to the melter, if required.

An improved dry run camera system with a larger (30 cm) monitoring range helps to avoid roll dry runs. Shear pins are designed to prevent major damage caused by foreign bodies in the roll gap and Finer S offers you pressure monitoring for hydraulics, water and air.

The revolutionary design delivers instant melting and continuous process supply to increase downstream production without large