Brewing Chocolate like Coffee

All right , a couple of weeks ago , I attempted to turn some coffee into a chocolate bar and somebody in the comments actually asked me to , to see if I can go the other way , turning cocoa into coffee .

So let's do it .

And I really think you guys should try this one because the result was really good .

And I'm also going to take this opportunity to answer the number one question slash comment from the original chocolate video .

All right .

So let's go ahead and get started .

Now .

You can directly buy cocoa Nibs from the internet .

But let me just give you a quick run through in case you want to start from a more basic set up .

So if you're starting from the fruit , you're gonna want to open the fruit by cutting it open and removing the pulpy fleshy delicious beans parts .

You're going to want to ferment them for a week in a glass jar and then dry them using a dehydrator .

It's a bit of work , but honestly , it's pretty fun and I guarantee you will smell things you've never smelled before .

I will link to the chocolate video which goes over this process really in depth and it works well .

Alternatively , you could skip a few steps and save quite a bit of money .

If you pick up a bag of cocoa beans like this , it costs about $20 .

And I'll put a link down in the description below .

If you choose to go down this route , you simply need to roast the beans by placing them in a 325 °F oven or 100 and 60 °C oven for about five minutes to warm the beans up and then turn the temperature down to 2 75 or 135 °C for about 20 minutes .

They go from smelling really funky to very chocolatey .

Just let the beans cool down completely because nothing is as annoying as peeling hot beans .

So once they've cooled down completely , we can start actually making this cocoa chocolate tea coffee thing .

So to do this , uh I just needed to peel the shells off the beans .

So I just gave them a little pre crack with a blunt object , then pulled them apart and separated them using my fingers and just kind of collected all the chocolate interiors in a bowl and it still amazes me how chocolatey this stuff is , which isn't surprising because it is chocolate .

But you know , it's just kind of a bizarre feeling seeing that this stuff is what really makes a chocolate bar right now .

I've collected about 70 g of the cocoa Nibs , which I just transferred into a different bowl for filming purposes .

And just a quick note , somebody did mention that you can make a tea out of the shells , but I'm gonna leave that for another day .

Now , I want to brew this stuff like I would normally make a cup of coffee .

But honestly , I was also in very new territory here and I did find some kind of griffy feeling super expensive products out there marketing themselves on healthy cocoa tea .

But I was like , let's just let's just try to see if we can figure out how to do this on our own .

So I decided to make it like I would make my normal coffee .

I placed for the peeled cocoa Nibs into a spice grinder and try to grind it up like I would with my coffee .

Now , honestly , this was the number one comment on the original chocolate video , which was whether or not I could grind up cocoa Nibs using this sort of spice grinder .

And it sort of works if you do do this , make sure to try and knock the clumps to ensure an even grind .

And eventually the chocolate started to clump bad and the grinder really started to struggle .

Eventually , I really couldn't get it to grind so much more .

You can hear it groaning really bad here .

So I just decided to stop , but looking at what we got here , it's not that bad .

And honestly , if you wanted to make chocolate , this would be a pretty good pre grind step before putting it in the modern puzzle .

All right .

So now let's brew this stuff .

So I loaded up about 16 g of this cocoa stuff into the arrow press and then added about 200 mL of near boiling water .

I gave it a good mix with the paddle and just let it sit for about 30 seconds or so .

So then I placed the cap on there which has a wet filter in there .

I know it's kind of hard to see , screwed it closed and then flipped over the thing and began to plunge .

By the way .

As far as I know , this is one of only two of these mugs that exist in the known universe .

So when I started pressing on the plunger , it was going well , but it got progressively tougher and tougher to press .

And I started to get flashbacks to my really , really old video where I tried to make cheese in an arrow press just like what happened there .

Fine particles began to clog the filtration process and the pressure I applied eventually caused a valve failure along the side .

Now , although that didn't totally work , I was able to collect some of the stuff and it smells really good in chocolatey .

And if we look closely , we can even see cocoa butter on the top , which at this temperature is a liquid and just starts floating on the top and you can see it as all those little yellow dot Now , I'm not 100% satisfied with this .

And I want to see if I could collect more of this stuff .

So I tried a different method for making coffee , which is using a pour over kraft .

Now , this pour over craft has a coarser filter .

So I decided to use that and I just placed 50 of the cocoa into the filter bin and brought 750 mL of water to near boiling and then started to pour this over .

I just initially poured a little bit in just to make sure everything got all nice and wet and then just poured a little bit more water in afterwards .

Now , just like before it was filtering out super slowly , however , it was working .

Although after a few minutes , it really started to clog again .

So I was able to collect some of this cocoa tea slash coffee .

Now , I will say it's totally possible that I've ground the cocoa too fine or something else .

Maybe if I had a French press , that might be something to try .

Now , that being said , I did collect a fair bit of this stuff so we can test how it tastes and it tastes pretty freaking amazing .

It has all of the niceness of a hot cocoa without all the creaminess and sugar that you normally get as a person that likes to drink my coffee black .

This was kind of on par in terms of intensity and if you do like black coffee , maybe this is something to give a try .

All right .

So this video is only about half successful .

So if you do give this a try , let me know how yours turns out and maybe we can figure out how to do this together .

I really recommend giving this one a go .

All right , with that being said , that's it for this week .

Next week , I'm gonna be making some instant pumpkin spice latte using the amazing freeze jar from harvest , right ?

So I'll see you guys next week and All right .

Bye .