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How chocolate works

When you eat dark chocolate, what you are eating is cocoa liquor miexed with extra cocoa butter and some sugar. It sounds like a simple reciple, but it's not like you can just toss these ingredients in a bowl and serve it. Chocolate-making is an art. First you have to put the ingredients through a process called conching. In one type of conching machine, big heavy rollers mash the ingredients over and over again on a granite slab. The goal is to break up the sugar crystals and cocoa solids to the point where the chocolate is absolutely smooth.

After conching, you have to temper the chocolate. You do this to make sure that the fats in the chocolate crystallize in the right way. There are six different ways that the fats can crystallize, and only one of them makes for goood eating. The next time you enjoy a smooth, creamy, melt-in-your-mouth piece of chocolate, think about the cocoa bean in all of its many forms. It is an incredibly popular source of pure pleasure for million of people.


recipe n. 食譜/秘訣
eg: I can't tell you how this is made. The recipe is a secret.
eg: Mom's apple pie recipe is very popular in our neighborhood.
eg: The magazine provides good recipes for organic food.
eg: What is the recipe(秘訣) for a successful marriage?


mash v.
eg: To make banana bread, mash the bananas until they're soft.
eg: The mother mashed the banana so her baby could eat it.
eg: The chef(主廚) mashed some potatoes to go along with the steak.




crystal n. 結晶體/水晶石/水晶飾品
eg: You can make homemade crystals with salt and water.
eg: You can see the salt crystals that were desopite on the rock after the sea water vaporized.
eg: Mom wore a crystal necklace to the party.

crystallize v. 結晶/晶化
eg: The syrup(糖漿) began to crystallize once it cooled down.

sugar crystal


creamy adj. very smooth/thick like cream
Cheese cake is a little bit creamy.

creamy adj.
eg: I had creamy tomate soup with my sandwich.

temper v. -> change



Chocolate-making is an art.
art -> technique/skill/know-how 技術

master the art of teaching




Grammer on the go

It sounds like a simple recipe, but it's not like you can
just toss these ingredients in a bowl and serve it.

it's not like ( emphasize how the situlation isn't as simple as one think )

eg: Even though the singer is known for being friendly,
it's not like you can just walk up to his front door and ask for his autograph.

eg: Although the clinic is free, it's not like you can just come and get any kind of drug you want.


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