Hey, folks. I received a shipment of cocoa butter from a new vendor and I've never seen a texture like this. It's a mealy aggregation of a bunch of little spheres. I thought perhaps it had just cooled in a weird way, but upon melting and cooling, it forms the same texture. I noticed that even the film left in a pan I melted some in had retracted into little balls overnight.
I'm thinking maybe this has been cut with another fat, but perhaps this is just a type of cocoa butter I've never seen before. When partially melted (see photo), there appears to be clear continuous and dispersed phases, which seems to support that. The continuous phase seeems to melt at a slightly lower temperature. Any thoughts?
Thank you,
Josh
