Kerry Beal

Let me get an idea of how many people might want to take home the following so he brings enough stuff with him - 1. 8 pound melanger (check website to see preferred version) 2. 10 pound tilting melanger (same) 3. new version of the small bowl for either of the above (still in beta but I have one and it's the cat's meow) - it's not on the website but if you look at the large bowls with the stainless stone holders - it's essentially a small version of that 4. new version of the big bowl with the metal bushings and stainless holder which is a set that includes the new metal rod and locking nut - version for the 8 lb and the 10 lb tilting

They should be coming - so we will ask them to bring. Ok - so talking with him now - he will bring the epoxy but says it's a bit tricky and if you want to bring your bowl he'll fix it for you. So he can send you home with epoxy and instructions or one of the bowls mentioned below. Also he will bring some slightly used/damaged but perfectly functional bowls. He will also complete sets of stone holder, roller stones and drum for a very good price, as well as the lock knob and center rod required to replace old stones with new stones.

I have a roll of heavy white paper - a little folding and a couple of these great magnets on each side keeps the side clean and provides a spot to spray to clean out the colours. The other side doesn't seem to get dirty for some reason.

Not sure how much the roll is - but a fabric store will have non woven interfacing that is cheap as dirt to buy. Mine is the Q5 and I've played with both the Q4 at the factory and the Q5 and seem to have less overspray with the Q5 for some reason. I lie - mine is the Q4 and the advantage was over the Q3. They didn't make the Q5 when I got mine.

Actually Bhavani and likely his engineer are going to be coming on Thursday and driving back to NJ on Friday. Unfortunately they don't have one of their new winnowers to show us - but I've seen the prototype when we were in Italy in 2020 and it's works so much better than other winnowers. But they do have lots of melangers they can bring along with the new stones that have the metal bushings.

I went out and bought some peeled hazelnuts today - I also have some ground ones I can bring along.

Bhavani is not going to be able to join us this time - but wonders if anyone wants to play with a melanger for the weekend?

I may have an issue - put in the order today with the pricing he gave me for a 10 kg box a couple of weeks ago - now he's telling me he only has 4 kg bags at a much higher price. I'll see what comes of it.

I don’t know I haven’t got it yet

I miss our Manitoulin tempura nights

If I were to bring cocoa butter - is anyone interested in purchasing for $20 US a kg? It will be the little beads. Let me know quantities you are interested in and I will have it weighed out and ready for it's new home.

I have the half size of this one - I was spraying plain cocoa butter yesterday and there was a bit of an issue, in part because the front filter was probably overwhelmed already, but I have used it with the Fuji with no issue (I find the Fuji tends to result in less overspray than my other airbrushes).

Well, I for one have learned so much from your research into ice cream and stabilizers, if and when you write your book - I'm sure it will win awards!

Not bad at all - it's about 10 min from restaurant to table!

That is essentially correct - the form VI crystals that are there will still be there. You just may find it hard to mold

I think you are doing pretty well in the encyclopedic technical knowledge applied to creative thinking realm yourself!

Chocolates and Confections - here's another source for the first edition - Abebooks Chocolates and Confections Time Life Candy Chocolate Artistry

Do you have a copy of Chocolates and Confections by Greweling? As @curls mentioned liquor chocolates are covered and it's the bible for so much of what we do. The Time-Life book Candy has a good tutorial on starch molding liquor chocolates as well. I think most of us have tried at times to close fully liquid items and it has pretty much universally been a bust. The fillable spheres are about the best - using one of the capping trays and turning a chocolate coated guitar sheet upside down on it. I think I recall Elaine Gonzalez in Chocolate Artistry making the mixture of sugar syrup and booze - piping it into cups and letting it crystallize over before backing it.

Rodney has volunteered (make that was voluntold) he would be doing breakfasts! So that problem solved.

Haven't got my stuff with me here at home - but we are down more than $1300 US compared to budget. Now with less people - our budget for breakfast and lunch will be less for sure - we were originally thinking catered sandwich type stuff for lunch - but can swap over to DIY. It's really hard to predict when I try to compare the costs for previous workshops and now with the increase in the cost of everything I'm hard pressed to get a handle on it.

Ran across this picture in my photo's - Ruth and I at one of the two Buffalo Wing joints - I think Duff's.

Kerry Beal lironp YetiChocolates curls chocolot patris alleguede tikidoc + Maddie Sue and Jane Anniebakes Haley + Brittany Matcha Wizard - aka Jenna VistaGardens Gwbyls Bernie Mueller dhardy123 So we've had a large number of last minute drop outs - which will be nice for the workshop end of things - but not so great for the finances as they were based on at least 6 more people. Two workshops ago I was out a chunk of money when it was all done because I hadn't asked people to pay ahead and there were no shows that didn't let me know they weren't coming. So last workshop I determined that payment had to be ahead and that worked out well when there were an abundance of participants and if they wanted to drop out - they were responsible for selling their spot. So looking at ways to reduce overall cost. We had intended to provide breakfast at Tomric - but maybe folks could eat at their hotel before they come and we could just stick to beverages for the morning. Welcome any other suggestions.

I think we made one a JM's place in Vegas and I run across it occasionally hidden deep in the bowels of my computer - let me see if I can find it again.

I think it does look like the rolled variation.

Renee from Chocolat-Chocolat has been kind enough to send us a whole bunch of samples of coloured cocoa butter from Roxy and Rich.