>>1024828 Would you eat that "holographic" chocolate Sam posted earlier?
i love lappland
i'd probably be willing to eat most things that are actually safe
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I'm pretty sure its safe
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I'm definitely gonna do more research before buying the supplies though.
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Okay it's safe Just use a plastic diffraction grating https://www.instructables.com/Holographic-Rainbow-Chocolate/ >tempering the chocolate Ugh Sounds like a pain in the ass I'll make sure someone else does that part Although I doubt I'd dislike any of the other crystalline forms of chocolate Actually now that I think of this I think one of my old professor did research on crystalline forms of chocolate in the 90's
> Chocolate is a very strange material. Unlike many things it can freeze into 6 different solid forms or crystal phases as they are known. Each of these crystal phases has different properties, and only one (phase 5) has the sheen, snap and melt in the mouth yumminess that all think of when we think of chocolate.
To ensure we get quality chocolate that takes on the rainbow structure and looks and tastes great, we need to temper the chocolate to ensure it grows entirely 'phase 5' crystal structure.
There are many ways to do this, but the easiest is to seed the chocolate with crystals from the 1/3 we saved from before.
All we need to do is chop the chocolate into small pieces (each ~1/3 square), and drop all these pieces into the 45°C molten chocolate. Drop them all in at once and stir them in quickly. This both cools the chocolate quickly to prevent undesirable 'phase 6' crystals from forming, and adds lots of the desirable 'phase 5' crystals to help nucleate and grow more of these.
