Archive for October, 2007

oh my.

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Lookee what I found:
http://www.ecolechocolat.com/chocolatier-school.php
Also reviews of quite a few tempering machines. I’ve been wanting one for awhile, and it looks like I could probably build my own if I needed to - the principle is quite simple, a couple of 100-watt light bulbs for heating, a fan for cooling, and a temperature limit controller, [...]

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aargh!

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

I invited a bunch of people to come by and take chocolates for themselves and their coworkers.  They’ve been coming by, but have been oh-so-delicately taking a pound or two of chocolates apiece!  Don’t they understand that they’re supposed to cart off entire cartons of the stuff?  Whatever happened to old-fashioned human greed?
Well, I have [...]

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All done but the cleanup

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Mailed off 30+ packages at the post office today (you should have seen the look the postal clerks gave me!) and am just about done - still have four more packages to mail because I ran out of boxes (and one needs to go UPS to Alaska), but other than that it’s a matter of [...]

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