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# Ask TheChocolateLife
- URL: https://thechocolatelife.com/ask-thechocolatelife/
- Published: 2021-01-26T15:26:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-01-31T19:18:54.000Z
- Description: While your question might not be the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything, if your question is about cocoa or chocolate it’s pretty darn important.
- Author: Clay Gordon
- Tags: Ask TCL

### Why This Form?

In the last six months of TheChocolateLife on Maven, a frighteningly high percentage of posts came from spammers using disposable email addresses. To combat this flood of SPAM (a mixed metaphor if there ever was \[or were?\] one) questions are now being moderated. 

### Ask Your Question

If you have a question about cocoa or chocolate – even if you are not a member – please ask it using the form below \[a Google Doc\] and TeamTCL will set to work finding an answer and posting it here on TheChocolateLife. While it may seem like there are a lot of questions on the form, answers are actually *required* to only four of them.

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[TheChocolateLife and Your PrivacyNo, Big Data is not watching you – because respecting privacy is very important to us.![](https://thechocolatelife.com/favicon.png)The Chocolate LifeThe Archivist![](https://thechocolatelife.com/content/images/2020/12/ev-gpjvRZyavZc-1920x1080.jpg)](https://thechocolatelife.com/privacy-policy/)

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### Past Answers to Questions Posed by Members

[AMA: Ask Me Anything (About Cocoa or Chocolate) #1 – Edible CrystalsThe QuestionChocolate is a crystal. What other crystals do we eat? Chocolate is mind (andtaste bud) blowing eh? It’s actually not completely accurate to say that chocolateitself is a crystal. Chocolate contains cocoa butter – the percentage depends on the chocolate recipe– that has crystalliz…![](https://thechocolatelife.com/favicon.png)The Chocolate LifeClay Gordon![](https://thechocolatelife.com/content/images/wordpress/2020/12/questionmarksign-jon-tyson-unsplash.jpg)](https://thechocolatelife.com/ama-ask-me-anything-about-cocoa-or-chocolate-1-edible-crystals/)

[AMA: Ask Me Anything (About Cocoa or Chocolate) #3 – Why Not W Africa?The Question:Why is it rare for us to see bean to bar makers sourcing their cocoa beans fromWest Africa? — Fatima Zohra-Hakam, Zora Chocolate\[https://www.zorachocolate.com/\] There are many ways to answer this question – the most blunt answer is thepresence of an elephant in the room: Unacknow…![](https://thechocolatelife.com/favicon.png)The Chocolate LifeClay Gordon![](https://thechocolatelife.com/content/images/wordpress/2020/12/questionmarksign4-jon-tyson-unsplash.jpg)](https://thechocolatelife.com/ama-ask-me-anything-about-cocoa-or-chocolate-3-why-not-w-africa/)

[AMA: Ask Me Anything (About Cocoa or Chocolate) #8: What is Conching?The QuestionThis is another assertion that is not usually put in the form of a question.Rather, it is the misuse of a technical term: melangers (or melangeurs, a Frenchterm for mixer) are very often referred to as conches. Technically, melangersare a form of universal, so-called because all of…![](https://thechocolatelife.com/favicon.png)The Chocolate LifeClay Gordon![](https://thechocolatelife.com/content/images/wordpress/2020/12/lehmannmelanger1280x720.jpg)](https://thechocolatelife.com/ama-ask-me-anything-about-cocoa-or-chocolate-8-what-is-conching/)

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