Ready to embark on a chocolate-making adventure? Great, but first you need tools! Professional chocolatier Simon Knott explains what chocolate making machines and equipment you need for your new hobby or home enterprise, plus tips for buying the best quality tools for your needs.

Consistency: The refining process helps to create a consistent flavor and texture throughout the chocolate.

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5.It is easy to operate this machine.It is equipped with full kaş of imported fully automatic PLC. It only takes a few days training even for new staff to get all the operation knowledge. Only 1-2 staff/shift for each equipment is needed.

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Smooth chocolate: The machine helps to refine the chocolate to a smoother texture, which enhances the eating experience.

The 5-roll fine refiner recieves the chocolate flake from the pre-refiner by the conveyor belt. The chocolate flake is then refined down to 20 metric micron, typically, though finer particle size is also possible.

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Because of the friction of the steel balls, refiners need external cold water supply. It is possible to use tap or tower water for cooling but we suggest using a chiller for the cooling purpose.

Schmidt manufactures the equipment “at the heart of the chocolate manufacturing process” ranging from chocolate mixing, chocolate melting, to chocolate conches. 

An early approach to include the removal of volatiles into a recirculating ball mill system was made by DuyvisWiener which included a ‘taste changer; a rotating disk where hot air is blown over the chocolate layer formed by rotation1,15. These devices are still sold for small scale applications. F.B.Lehmann, now part of DuyvisWiener, özgü a long experience in building thin film evaporators and horizontal ball mills for cocoa processing and had also offered systems for chocolate mass Chocolate DOUBLE TUBE BALL REFINER production.

In case melting tank is going to be used also birli storage tank, preventing of thermal fluctuations inside the chocolate melting tank which may occur because of bypassing tempered chocolate back to melting tank is required.

The Swiss company Bühler is market leader in this technology and looks back to a long experience in building and installing complete production lines8.