Starting with the cocoa pods, Alistair Birt who is head chocolatier for William Curley, takes us through a step by step guide on how these pods are dried, roasted and the cocoa nib is harvested from them. These are then ground down to form cocoa butter and cocoa mass - Alistair explains what happens next.

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