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# TheChocolateLife::LIVE – Roasting Deep Dive
- URL: https://thechocolatelife.com/thechocolatelife-live-roasting-deep-dive/
- Published: 2022-09-07T20:04:13.000Z
- Updated: 2022-09-12T15:11:37.000Z
- Description: Episode 58 starts streaming live Friday, September 9th at 12:00 EDT. In this episode we take a look at approaches/techniques and equipment used for roasting cocoa. Questions are encouraged and appreciated!
- Author: TheChocolateWire
- Tags: Live Stream, The Wire

If you are a “raw” chocolate maker the question is (with apologies to the Bard), “To Roast or Not to Roast?” 

Of course the answer to that question is – as is the case with most things cocoa and chocolate:

> It depends on what you **mean** by roast.

Punning aside, after bean selection itself, roasting is the first point at which a chocolate maker begins to influence the taste of the final chocolate.

The definition of roast we’re looking for is a verb form:

> \[To\] cook ... by prolonged exposure to \[dry\] heat in an oven or over a fire

Belied by that simple definition is a complex cascade of chemical reactions that transform myriad precursor compounds into the flavors that make up chocolate. 

In this live stream we’ll take a deep dive – yet barely scratch the surface of the fine art of roasting cocoa.

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### **Resources**

Click the Details link for each winner to learn about the genetics and some of the technical characteristics of the beans as well as the roast profile and chocolate recipe used in the evaluation.

[2021 Awards Winners – Producers’ list![](https://www.cocoaofexcellence.org/typo3conf/ext/cocoa_of_excellence/Resources/Public/Assets/Img/favico/mstile-310x310.png)Cocoa of Excellence![](https://www.cocoaofexcellence.org/typo3conf/ext/cocoa_of_excellence/Resources/Public/Assets/Img/logo-black.png)](https://www.cocoaofexcellence.org/2021-edition/2021-awards-winners-producers-list?ref=thechocolatelife.com)

[Products - Coffee-Tech EngineeringCoffee-Tech Engineering designs and manufactures a wide variety of manual and automatic shop roasters, lab equipment and commercial coffee roasters.![](https://www.coffee-tech.com/favicon.ico)Coffee-Tech Engineering![](https://www.coffee-tech.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/a1p.jpg)](https://www.coffee-tech.com/products/?ref=thechocolatelife.com)

Click on the Cocoa Roasters link, then scroll through the descriptions of the technologies that are built into these roasters. This is not sponsored, it’s here to let you know what kinds of tech can be incorporated into cocoa roasters.

## Live Stream Links

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