My not so new toy

This time, I'm gonna introduce you to my new chocolate toy, my mol d'art choc melting machine. After few months waiting for it and going thru a lot of trouble with the wrong order from the distributor and waiting again and again and again, I finally got my dream machine. He is no Asimo but he's very handy for me when making large batch of chocolates. Its actually a mol d' art choc melting machine but I don't know why the distributor sells it as Callebaut Choc melting machine. Basically the "Callebaut" logo were just sticked onto tha machine for I don't know whatever reason. If you look underneath the machine, you'll see a big embossed logo for mol d' art hence I knew the original brand of this machine. Probably this is one kind of the mak angkat , kakak angkat kind of thingy kot. Whatever it is, I' so happy coz this is also the machine used by the World's most famous chocolatier, John Pierre Wybauw.... Huhuhu... I hope the chocs I made would one day be as good as his... coz the cost of this machine itself would also make me cry huarghhh.....


The capacity for this machine is around 6 kg I think. Using this machine is not as easy as it looks. Unless I get one of those ChocoVision tempering machine, then tempering chocolates can never be easy. If the quantity that I'm making is small, I'd rather use the tabling method than this. To just melt a few kg of chocolates in this machine would need a few hours!!! Plus the time it takes for the seeding and bla bla bla would be another thing. However, if the quantity is big, then its worthit la coz this machine would be able to hold the temperature of the chocolate in its tempered state for some time. All in all, I'm really excited about this machine and am longing to use it soon.

November Updates in December

It's been quite sometime that I haven't been pouring anything to this blog. I think since raya aidilfitri lagi kot. A lot of things have happened lately and I just don't have much time to spend on blogging. The most significant being the loss of my beloved Abah ke pangkuan Allah on the 19th of Oct 2008. Semoga Allah merahmati rohnya dan menempatkan dia di kalangan hamba2nya yang beriman. Amiinnn.

Anyway, just 2 days before that incident, I had also resigned from my job as a Research Analyst at one of the IT co that I had been working at for almost 4 years tu. And now I am recuperating myself from all these shocks of my life and at the same time trying to adjust to my new life schedules as a freelance IT consultant( which I hope is for temporary only...), as a cupcakeist ( always because of bidan terjun), and a chocolatier (something I've been dreaming of becoming ). hahahah... QUE SERA SERA.. whatever will be will be.... lalalalala. Hrm.. , did I mention that my reason to resign from my previous work was merely to concentrate on my family??? Sighh!!! Yeah.. whatever happens and whichever path that I chose... my life still goes on.. After all, what really matters is gaining Allah's blessings on whatever I do, insyallah...