Ok, so there’s a lot of excitement about this new adventure… Not sure if it’s because people are genuinely interested in the craft, or if they are more looking forward to tasting some free chocolate…

What ever the case may be, I just ordered a grinder from Ultra (that’s the brand name). It’s about 1/2 the cost of the traditional cocoa grinders, and is supposed to be able to do the same as more professional grinders (from the reviews that I’ve read so far).

I was tempted to go the old school way and get a metate, unfortunately all I could find were either archeological finds or super fancy metate (yes, they can get fancy) that was much more expensive than the wet grinder I found.

So I’m hoping to get the grinder this week, and look for my next experiment at that time (note I salvaged a lot of the cocoa from the first try, so I’ll try to use that).

Stay tuned!