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25 January 2022

Chocolate rheology

 

Striking analogy between concrete and chocolate, with sugar and cocoa powders forming the granular skeleton, cocoa butter being the expensive cement matrix and lecithin being the plasticizer. The maximum particle size is imposed by the fact that our tongue is able to detect particles coarser than a few tens of microns and, more than often, it does not enjoy that feeling. More here!