Norman Love Technique - Black

[Sebastian]

http://www.normanloveconfections.com/chocolates/black/

Thoughts on how the black stripe is achieved, with an apparent higher density of color on either side of the stripe, done in such a fashion as to allow some level of throughput? It's done very, very uniformly on each piece..

[Kerry Beal]

http://www.normanloveconfections.com/chocolates/black/

Thoughts on how the black stripe is achieved, with an apparent higher density of color on either side of the stripe, done in such a fashion as to allow some level of throughput? It's done very, very uniformly on each piece..

I heard it was done with a q-tip.

[ejw50]

Any thoughts on this one, the champagne?

http://www.normanloveconfections.com/chocolates/darks/

Has a 'rain' effect.

[Kerry Beal]

Any thoughts on this one, the champagne?

http://www.normanloveconfections.com/chocolates/darks/

Has a 'rain' effect.

Hard to tell from the picture - but I wonder if the effect could be had by putting a large drop in the bottom of the mold, then blowing in air with an airbrush?

[gap]

That would be my guess

[ejw50]

Good thought! I'll try it next time and see how it turns out.

[chiantiglace]

Hahaha, kerry, thats the first thing I thought when I looked at the picture, must be a q-tip.

regardless of what they used the concept was the wipe away a strip from the airbrushed molds. I bet a q-tip or something similar will work quite well.

And the champagne one looks like it was scratched away with something firm, like a wire brush.

Edited February 16, 2010 by chiantiglace (log)

[dhardy123]

I saw Jacques Torres do something similar with the pointed end of a paint brush.

[lebowits]

http://www.normanloveconfections.com/chocolates/black/

Thoughts on how the black stripe is achieved, with an apparent higher density of color on either side of the stripe, done in such a fashion as to allow some level of throughput? It's done very, very uniformly on each piece..

I heard it was done with a q-tip.

I think Kerry is right. The mold is sprayed with the color or colors used. I suspect a "back spray" of thinned chocolate or black cocoa butter was used to punch up the color. Then the void was created using a q-tip or rubber tip depending on how fine a line you might want.

[pringle007]

There are some new photos of black available, and if you look, the stripe appears not to be chocolate but a dark color of some sort. Its line is not even, and looks like a painted line as you see faint breaks where a "redipped" tool can be applied. As for the champaign, I did something like that last year. I dropped a small bit of CCB in the bottom, then waited till it started to set and use a fat brush to pull the butter up the sides, making sure I applied plenty of pressure so that the brush strokes would be defined. I'll look in my files and see if I can find the photos of my pieces...

[lebowits]

Perhaps the void is created in the bright color prior to the back spray of black cocoa butter.

[Kerry Beal]

Perhaps the void is created in the bright color prior to the back spray of black cocoa butter.

Anyone bringing an airbrush to the conference? Perhaps we can experiment.

[RobertM]

I have a small Badger 250 that I could bring - and would be happy to do so -

[pringle007]

I have four airbrushes I can bring, but I think I mentioned that to Leb already..

[lebowits]

I have four airbrushes I can bring, but I think I mentioned that to Leb already..

I'm not ignoring you on that, just simply haven't reached that far down the list yet. It is the next item though.