Cacao sin seleccionar ni limpiar. / Cocoa, unsorted and not cleaned.
Greetings to all. Today we will talk about the first steps we take in Chocobaha, when the cocoa arrives, the cleaning, selection and evaluation of the cocoa, is of great importance to us. As we mentioned in previous publications, we do not have our own cocoa plantations, we buy it in Caripito, a town located in the state of Monagas, Venezuela. The average purchase is 150 kilos every 2 months.
Seleccion y limpieza de cacao por Isnelly León . / Cocoa selection and cleaning by Isnelly León.
The first step is to select and clean the cocoa beans manually, bean by bean, removing dirt such as stones, branches, hair, flat cocoa or any other unwanted matter. By doing this step manually, we guarantee an optimal selection and cleaning, so we can proceed with the following evaluations.
Prueba de corte al cacao / Cocoa cutting test.
To perform the cut test we must take a random sample of all the cocoa beans, where a statistical quarting will be applied, to obtain a totally homogeneous final sample, to that final sample, a cut test is applied according to the COVENIN and FCC standards to determine the percentage of fermentation, types of beans present, presence of purple beans and black beans, presence of insects or mold.
A nivel físico realizamos una serie de evaluaciones tales como: / At the physical level we perform a series of evaluations such as:
- Presencia de granos múltiples.
- Porcentaje de basura y agentes externos.
- Peso de 100 granos de cacao
- Cantidad de granos que representan 100 gramos.
- Peso de cascarilla promedio.
- Media de tamaño de granos medianos, pequeños y grandes.
- Presence of multiple grains.
- Percentage of trash and external agents.
- Weight of 100 cocoa beans.
- Number of beans representing 100 grams.
- Average husk weight.
- Average size of medium, small and large beans.
With all the data obtained in these tests we extract all the characteristics to make the bean profile and ensure that the supplier complies with the agreement, and then we proceed to roast the cocoa. We invite you to stay tuned for our next post, where we will be talking about cocoa roasting and we will show you our self-made roaster oven made from recycled material.
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