Engineering The Impossible
Chocolatiers
from the Nestlé Product Technology Centre in York took up a challenge by BBC1's
One Show to create a chocolate teapot. The team managed to develop a method for
pouring the water to ensure that the tea did not turn into hot chocolate.
Master
Chocolatiers John Costello and Jan Kuendiger from Nestlé helped One Show
presenter Marty Jopson to 'engineer the impossible' by creating this
breakthrough innovation which has helped to solve the age-old conundrum.
John
Costello, Nestlé Master Chocolatier said: "Interestingly, if you pour the
water in a certain way and you don't stir inside but just let it settle, and
then brew like you would normally brew a cup of tea, the chocolate on the
inside of the shell melts but doesn't move anywhere."
The process
involved building the teapot in layers of silicon mould which took more than
two hours but the challenge was to avoid the chocolate teapot from tainting the
brew inside.
The PTC in
York is Nestlé's centre of excellence and is responsible for developing new
technologies and innovative products, as well as providing help and technical
assistance to Nestlé operating companies around the world. New developments and
modifications of existing products are created in the development laboratory
and confectionery kitchen. These products, designed to delight our consumers,
are tasted and evaluated by trained sensory panels.
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