[TheForge] One man's Damascus/Chocolate is another mans......

Wed Apr 3 15:29:00 2002

I like my damascus the only way most of us can make it today

and my chocolate -  SWEET (even with the paraffin and - ugh - rat feces)

Seems there are no simple answers....

Chocolate liquor( the solid or semi plastic food prepared by finely grinding
caco nibs) - 50% min 60% max cacao fat by weight

Sweet Chocolate  not less than 15% Chocolate liquor  - therefore only  7.5%
- 9% cacao fat  

Milk  Chocolate not less  than  10% Chocolate liquor

From :

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfPCD/showCFR.cfm?CFRPart=163&showFR=1

21CFR163.111
[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 21, Volume 2]
[Revised as of April 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 21CFR163.111]

[Page 511-512]

                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS

CHAPTER I--FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
                           SERVICES--CONTINUED

PART 163--CACAO PRODUCTS--Table of Contents

    Subpart B--Requirements for Specific Standardized Cacao Products

Sec. 163.111  Chocolate liquor.

    (a) Description. (1) Chocolate liquor is the solid or semiplastic 
food prepared by finely grinding cacao nibs. The fat content of the food 
may be adjusted by adding one or more of the optional ingredients 
specified in paragraph (b)(1) of this section to the cacao nibs. 
Chocolate liquor contains not less than 50 percent nor more than 60 
percent by weight of cacao fat as determined by the method prescribed 
in 
Sec. 163.5(b).

...

Sec. 163.
123
  Sweet chocolate.

    (a) Description. (1) Sweet chocolate is the solid or semiplastic 
food prepared by intimately mixing and grinding chocolate liquor with 
one or more optional nutritive carbohydrate sweeteners, and may contain 
one or more of the other optional ingredients specified in paragraph (b) 
of this section.

[[Page 514]]

    (2) Sweet chocolate contains not less than 15 percent by weight of 
chocolate liquor

...

Sec. 163.
130
  Milk chocolate.

    (a) Description. (1) Milk chocolate is the solid or semiplastic food 
prepared by intimately mixing and grinding

[[Page 515]]

chocolate liquor with one or more of the optional dairy ingredients and 
one or more optional nutritive carbohydrate sweeteners, and may contain 
one or more of the other optional ingredients specified in paragraph (b) 
of this section.
    (2) Milk chocolate contains not less than 10 percent by 
weight of 
chocolate liquor

Bill Clemens

40 some odd years of eating and enjoying chocolate  

Roy Wilson wrote:

  On Wed, 03 Apr 2002 12:13:29 -0600, Dave Brown wrote:

    24yrs experience in chocolate manufacturing, excluding a 3 yr stint in 
Systems Development.  The last 4 years auditing (operational audits, not 
financial) manufacturing and QC operations.  I obviously haven't a clue as 
to what I'm talking about.

Thank you for the correction.

	Didn't mean to imply that.  Exactly the opposite, in fact. 
The only one the kids looked up from that list was the rat feces,
simply because it was the grossest one to them.  It could very well
have been a typo - 8% instead of 80%, or was based on something
else entirely.

Roy Wilson
General Operations Director
Zanzibar Internet Land Line Administrator

&lt;[email protected]&gt;

_______________________________________________

http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/theforge

theforge mail list group photo site is

http://www.photoaccess.com

Login:  
blacksmithbl
[email protected]
password:  anvil
___________

--- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts ---
text/html (html body -- converted)
---