Professor Satoshi Ueno and Professor Kiyotaka Sato of the Graduate School of Biosphere Science (Food Physics Laboratory), Hiroshima University, known for their research on chocolate, Santoku Ishi (Higashi Hiroshima City), Inoue Stone Co., Ltd. (Yakake, Okayama Prefecture) With the cooperation of the town), we have developed "Chocolat Mill," a stone mill that allows you to make your own chocolate from cocoa beans, which is rare in the world.It was commercialized and started selling on February 2017, 2.
Since it is necessary to grind the beans to make chocolate from cacao beans, only some people who have a dedicated grinder can make it.Professor Emeritus Sato, who is said to be a leader in chocolate research in the world, said that women in the ancient Mesoamerican era grinded cacao beans with stone plates (metate) and sticks (mano) to make cacao beverages. Focusing on that, I came up with the idea of "stone mill", a traditional Japanese craft, and launched a development project in March 2016, thinking that there is a way to grind cacao directly with our own hands as in that era. ..
Professor Ueno, the author of "Why Chocolate is Delicious" (Shueisha Shinsho), also participated in the project as a sub-leader.With the cooperation of the companies that are the project members, we devised a mechanism to melt the beans by keeping the stone mill at 40 ° C or higher and a structure to grind the cacao beans into small pieces.
"Chocolate Mill" is a hand-cranked bean mill, and anyone can easily make chocolate from cocoa beans.Put cocoa nibs (crushed cocoa beans into flakes) from the top of the stone mill and rotate it around the handle to grind the cocoa and melt it in the stone mill. After a few minutes, a thick natural material 100 The mechanism is that% chocolate comes out.You can enjoy making your own chocolate, such as adding fresh cream to make fresh chocolate.
The stone used is the domestic famous stone "Shirasakura Mikage" from Yakage Town, Okayama Prefecture, and the stone craftsmen of Inoue Stone, the mining source, made each one with great care.We have devised a design that is easy to handle even for women and children, and realized weight reduction.
The first machine will be open to the public at the university festival in November 2016.The product is now on sale at the official online shop, and you can also buy Peruvian cacao nibs and laser thermometers.
