WHAT:
A tour in a chocolate factory specified in fairtrade and organic chocolate. And delicious chocolate.
WHERE:
Outrims of Seattle, circa 15-25 minutes from Downtown.
The adress is
3400 Phinney Avenue North,
Seattle, WA 98103
TIME NEEDED:
The tour is 1 hour, but be there 15 minutes before said start time. Also be sure to count for some time in the gift shop.
MONEY NEEDED:
The tour is 10 dollars incl. tax. Save some money for the gift shop. (It starts to sound like I've gotten paid to promote buying stuff from there...)
WATCH OUT FOR!:
Going there wearing perfume/cologne, fur, glitter or high heels, as you are going to be in the very same place they make the chocolate and even the smallest straw of hair in the mix will not make future chocolate-customers happy.
That's why you get to be this beautiful while touring the factory...
The strange thing is why dad had to have one on the head, where he is bald, whereas the eyebrows, practically two copses, could run free.
DON'T MISS:
¤ To ask all the questions you always wondered about chocolate - the guides are very knowledgeble and happy to answer even the more stupid questions.
¤ Also, the raspberry 70 % dark chocolate we got to taste was perfect. And as Alex said - over 70% cocoa is basically health food...
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OUR VISIT:
We arrived and were asked to put on hairnets provided and roll our clothes from lint. That was a way more fun process then expected, probably because of how stupid we looked in the hairnets...
Yeah sure...
We were then led in to a room that kind of looked like a classroom set in a jungle...
...where we were taught all about the way the bean was harvested and cooked in its own juice or something (don't ask. I'm really not that familiar with words about processing crops in English...) in Congo and Peru before being dried and sent to North America for them to start putting it inside a hell of a lot of machines, which we got acqainted with in the next part of the tour. While Alex, our guide, talked ('in the speed of light, I know' to quote her) we got to taste different kinds of chocolate, from 85 per cent to a milkier one at 45 or something like that. It was priitty very much good everything.
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NEXT PART was the machinery floor which was hot and loud, so we started in a smaller room with big windows facing the machines so Alex could explain every part of the process.
We stayed a few minutes on the floor before Alex decided we should go for something sweet since it had been almost 10 minutes since we got anything to chew on. Oh, no, sorry, while we stood in the in-glassed room we muched on cocoa nibs - bits of the cocoa bean after being destoned and roasted and winnowed.
Nibs - like eating roasted nuts that taste almost
like chocolate but kind of more like the solid form of coffee.
We went in to the confectionary where we got to taste basil ganache (which is a fancier word for truffle) and a ants-on-log-inspired ganache (a typical american snack consisting of a celery stick smeared with peanut butter and "ants" walking on it made by raisins. Yes, it does sounds disgusting. Sorry America but you can't just put peanut butter on anything and call it 'snack'...).
No photos from there since I was occupied with licking the chocolate of my fingers. The ants-on-a-log-thingy wasn't that bad after all...
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After that, we had time for some final questions and then our hour was up. We did as Banksy said and exited through the gift shop dor', content on the brim to stoner-happy after all the chocolate. Jonathan's parents, your about to get a chocolate bar tasting of fennel and figs...
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WORTH IT?:
Ten dollars for a witty guide, a lot of knowledge about chocolate and tastings every other minute seems kind of veeery well worth it to me. I think I'd even prioritize it even if I'd be on a tight budget. But then again, it might be might increased levels of serotonin speaking.
Maybe I might as well call this section "One Idiot Family Traveling"...
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I also kinda got exited over this kind of activity and already want to do another one, so if any of you know anything similar to this basically anywhere in the world, please tell me!
It doesn't have to be chocolate or sweets, any kind of factory seems exciting after we've gotten fueled up here.
Other than that, this'll be it for today.
Hope you have a great day with a lot of chocolate.
Hope you have a great day with a lot of chocolate.
KISSES
One Serotonin-high Idiot
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