Mumbai Food: Learn how chocolate goes from bean to bar during this workshop

The seminar will be conducted by husband-wife group Jane (left) and Fabien Mason
The seminar will be conducted by husband-wife group Jane (left) and Fabien Mason 

If we sneakily break on that bar of decadent dim chocolate after dinner, or like to bite a mop of bubbling prohibited chocolate on a nippy winter night, a bean-to-bar chocolate seminar is substantially for you.

Auroville-based Jane and Fabien Mason, founders of a epicurean organic chocolate code Mason Co will control a workshop, that is being reason in Mumbai for a initial time.

Bean me up
“Usually, we reason chocolate tasting sessions; this is a initial time we’re conducting a bean-to-bar workshop. We’ll uncover we how chocolate is made, right from a birth as a tender cacao bean to a final form as a bar of chocolate,” says Jane, who changed to India from Bali 6 years ago and motionless to make her possess chocolate after anticipating that being vegan, she couldn’t try a ones accessible in markets here.

She, along with Fabien, will move this believe to a seminar where, over 4 hours, participants will be taught about a opposite varieties of cacao beans, a several methods of creation excellent chocolate, as good as a look into a renouned varieties of chocolate accessible in a marketplace today.

“Typically, it takes 4 to 7 days for us to go from bean to bar during a factory. However, given a event is usually 4 hours long, we won’t be means to go by a whole process. It’s an rudimentary category for chocolate lovers, bakers, or only anyone meddlesome in training a tip behind creation peculiarity chocolate,” she adds.

One of a perks of fasten a category is that we get to ambience chocolate from opposite regions in India and some of a rarest and many cherished cacao beans from a world. Apart from this, we will also learn a art of roasting, cracking, winnowing, and harsh a beans, and get to try your palm during tempering, pepper and, finally, moulding chocolate to make your possess personalised bar.

Farm fresh
Explaining a kind of work that goes into formulating good chocolate, she says, “We source a beans from farms in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and even from Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. It is critical to correlate with a cacao farmers. We learn a farmers who supply to us a right routine to routine a beans. The approach a beans are roasted, too, creates a disproportion to a final outcome. It develops essence and creates character.”

She shares that nonetheless their network is now larger, removing to this indicate was a struggle. “The initial rancher we starting operative with didn’t have a peculiarity of beans we were looking for. It took us a year of operative with him to get to a indicate where we were satisfied,” she adds.

According to total published by a UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, India is a second-largest writer of cacao in Southeast Asia. Yet, a chocolate isn’t as good famous as chocolate from, say, South America or Africa. “This is since India is deliberate a bulk chocolate producer, and anything that is constructed in bulk is viewed to be of a reduce quality. This needs to change.”

ON: Apr 2, 10 am to 1.30 pm 
AT: Magazine Street Kitchen, Devidayal Compound, Gupta Mills Estate, Reay Road.
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COST: Rs 6,000

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