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Aug 25, 2023
For those of you with little enough meaningful entertainment in your lives who have as a result followed our nerd efforts to make chocolate from dirt air and water, big update: we harvested the first cacao pod from Tree #1 and…


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…we will ferment, dry and roast the cacao nibs. Then, we will make chocolate!

Here, because we had only one mature pod, and because practice makes perfect, I’m adding the seeds from our homegrown pod to a bunch of others so we have good fermentation mass.


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Background on this (for those so in need of distraction that fermenting beans is a thrill):
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Aug 13, 2023
We have been raising Cacao Theobroma (chocolate) trees in our lab (next to the water jet-it’s humid) for a few years. We learned to pollinate them, and they made pods! Now we need to learn how to ferment, dry, roast, shell, mill, and temper chocolate. If that sounds fun, read on!


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First, I know a lot of people know a lot about all this, so I want to say: this project isn’t about pretentious choco-bullshit.

I’m not trying to be snotty. I wanted to see if I could start with a seed in dirt and end up with chocolate! That’s it! And learning has been fun! Image
We had to learn a LOT. It’s nontrivial to grow Cacao indoors, and we ended up basically simulating equatorial conditions. Soil, nutrition, light.

Also, the (biting) insect that pollenates Cacao in nature is NOT PRESENT in our lab. So we learned to do it with q-tips and tweezers. Image
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Dec 25, 2022
Mushy peas for Christmas Eve: Image
Ready for chips. Recipe is on top left, in F because America. Image
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Dec 18, 2022
Chimayó Chile, water, salt, garlic, fat.
After one hour.
Chicken (dark) in fat, rubbed with cumin, adobo, and more Chimayó red.
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Dec 4, 2022
Starving for a decent bit of cod, and frustrated by the poor quality of Los Angeles area chip shops, area man just fucking gets it done.
Atlantic cod is available in LA, as is English beer so the filet was sorted and essentially proper. American potatoes however are… lesser. For this application at least. Food nerds know this but I couldn’t help myself. These chips are therefore only about 40% proper.
Nota Bene: if you’re someone who hasn’t had proper fish and chips from a grimy shop in a cheesy seaside town in England, please don’t tell me how a restaurant in California has “the best fish and chips.” Thank you.

Also, you’re missing out MASSIVELY!
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Oct 2, 2022
WILD YEAST COLLECTION 日本 EDITION
It is a GLORIOUS autumn day here in Shinjuku, in the center of Tokyo. The Tokyo government buildings are here, aside the stunningly beautiful Shinjuku Chuo park.

The fragrance of late summer hangs in the air- perfect time and place for nerds like me to collect some wild yeasts!
First step is to gather the appropriate supplies- including some nice local whole wheat flour. Next we need to pasteurize the flour so that we collect a clean sample. Here I use the kettle as an autoclave, and it works nicely. You need 160F maximum; I used a COVID IR thermometer.
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