We went to a cacao farm today. We even got to plant cacao trees.
These seedlings will start to produce pods in about a year and a half.
This scarecrow helps to keep the birds away from the cacao pods.
The cacao seeds are found inside these pods.
The inside of the pod doesn't look too appealing, but these seeds produce amazing chocolate.
The seeds ferment for about five days.
Then they get spread out to dry. Every two hours they need to be raked.
We pounded some dry cacao seeds and added sugar to make some chocolate the old-fashioned way. It tasted great!
Then we headed inside to see the process done with modern machinery.
We all got to taste it. It was absolutely delicious. Chocolate is absolutely amazing.
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