One bean holds two very different ingredients.
Work the press. See them part ways.
The metal is cut away.
The story is left intact.
01 / Cocoa liquor
The butter is already in the bean.
Grinding cacao nibs makes cocoa liquor: cocoa particles suspended in the bean’s own fat. The press begins with this warm, flowing mixture.
A cutaway reveals what the solid metal chamber normally hides.
Schematic motion. No pressure, yield or process-time prediction.
THE NEXT CHAPTER
Separated here.
Reunited in chocolate.
Pressing separates cocoa butter and cake. Milling turns the cake into cocoa powder. Chocolate making can bring cocoa butter back together with cocoa solids, sugar and other ingredients in a new balance.
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This original single-pot cutaway simplifies an industrial process. The chamber is opened visually to show the mechanism. Movement, proportions and the collected amount are illustrative. The press does not predict settings or yield.