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Feel free to contact Alufoil Products for all your requirement of Chocolate Foil.
Feel free to contact Alufoil Products for all your requirement of Chocolate Foil.
Hello,
We are manufacturer & exporter of Candy Foil + Chocolate Foil + Laminated Foil which is food grade certified. It is also available in custom sizes as per clients need. Multiple colors are available with paper lined confectionery foil. You can make your company name print or embossed or precut size as per request.
Please feel free to fill this form, click on the link - http://www.alufoilindia.com/inquiry.php
Waiting for your reply.
Prerna
alufoil@gmail.com
Hi, we are manufacturer & exporter of chocolate foil. We make customized foil as per our clients requirement. Kindly mail us your requirement at chocofoil@gmail.com or alufoil@gmail.com.
Please visit our website - http://www.alufoilindia.com/chocolate-foils.php
the above link is for chocolate foil page, where you can get more info about our products.
I am also attaching a catalog for chocolate foil with this message, please view it and revert me back.
Thanks
Prerna Jhawar
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Hi Beth,
Know you posted this some time ago, but could help others asking the same question. Alufoil requires you purchase each color and size in lots of 1000 sheets each. At www.bagsforgifts.com you will find Confectionary foils in all standard sizes including Candy Bar lined sheets. The standard foil is .00045 thick. If you need thicker we can order you .00060. We have no minimum purchase. You can order from 1 pack of 100 sheets and ship via USPS for $2 to $3 depending on the size of the foils or you can ship from up to 40 packs of foil again depending on the size with Priority Mail Flat Rate Envelope for only $5.85, We have large in house inventory and ship most orders the same or next day.
Clay,
Thanks for the info, we will check Frank's site out. The next question is the printer outerwrappers. Is that something we do locally or is there an on-line source.
Pierre
ChocolateLife member Frank Haberman contacted me recently and he says he offers foils in a variety of sizes and colors through his on-line store Candy Foil Warehouse . Not sure about the custom sizes, though. He has a companion store that sell all sorts of materials for packaging that might also be helpful, Bags for Gifts .
We were talking about some sort of special discount or incentive program for ChocolateLife members, so why don't you contact Frank and see what he can do for you?
We've ordered from Alufoil since we opened. They have always provided great service.
Thanks, I am ordering from Aufoil, but I have run out of color options and need to expand.
I have seen recommendations for Alufoil.com or Glerup.com. If buying smaller quantities pre-cut Sugarcraft.com may be a good fit.
Hope it helps.
does anyone have any leads for suppliers of confection grade foils, I need something thick and preferably paper lined, (not essential), but available in many colors and custom sizes?
Melanie,
I was at Tomric on Tuesday - they have the Pavoni electrical one. Didn't get a price however.
Hi Melanie,
Martellato also makes this type of guitar, manual,and has more frame sizes.
http://www.martellato.com/scheda.asp?content=1,83,91,1126,chitarra_taglio_a_spinta_40x40,01.html
Omar
Chocolate World shows an electric one and Vantage House shows a manual one made by Chocolate World - cost seems to be a little over 2000 english pounds - they are calling it a nougat/fudge cutter.
Pavoni makes a similar automatic cutter as well as a manual one. You may wish to obtain a quote from them too. Let us know how it goes!
http://www.pavonitalia.com/gestore.php?var0=eng&var1=Products&var2=MACHINES&var3=Cutter_units
Hi Melanie. Given the frame sizes that you listed above (15, 22.5, etc.), the base for this machine will have 7.5mm spacing. There are 25.4mm per inch, therefore you would want a 25mm cutter in order to make 1in square cuts. Check to see if the machine comes in a 5mm base option, since that would give you a 25mm cutter instead of a 22.5 -- which would do the trick.
Hi Melanie,
Those guitars seem pretty interesting. It seems as though the automatic guitar actually cuts slower than working with the traditional guitar. I personally have a Dedy, the German made guitar. It is easy to clean and much better than the plastic model. I cut my ganaches using a 25 mm frame. That is the perfect size for me. 22.5 is a little too small for me and 30 is a little too big in my opinion. I make a lot of fleur de sel caramels and I cut them all on my guitar without breaking strings. With that said, I would never cut nougat with it or anything with large pieces of nuts. If I focused on those products, the automatic guitar might be a good option. Let us know if you spring for it.
I have some questions about the Savy Goiseau Automatic Guitar that can be seen in the following video:
Automatic chocolate guitar full cut SAVY-GOISEAU.wmv
I was quoted $6825 plus shipping for this from Chocolate Solutions in Canada.
It comes with several frames 15.0, 22.5, 30.0, 37.5 and 45.0. (mm?)
I need to check those sizes to compare how close it comes to the 1" squares I currently cut.
I have a Martellano guitar I had retooled to make 1" squares as their frames were too big or too small.
Chocolate World, Belgium also has one but I have not received the quote back..
The guitar can cut thru nuts as demonstrated in the You Tube video. Not sure if it can also cut caramels.
Does anyone have one of these? It looks more efficient than a standard guitar and hopefully less complicated to restring.
Great contribution. Very funny, thanks for sharing!
On a more serious note, what makes us artisan or not? We are surely not making chocolate like the old mayans did but most of us are far away from being industrial in the sense many people think about.
Thanks Jessica, Andy and Patti!!
Jessica that is a very funny blog and is exactly what I was asking.
Andy and Patti I couldn't agree more. I'm trying to get away from using artisan as well and emphasize hand made and hand crafted as well.
I know i have recently read that Dunkin Donuts was being sued over the use of the word "artisan" describing their bagels. I try not to use the word exactly for this reason- everyone is using it so it has lost its meaning. It is being used to describe products that are decidedly NOT artisan, so it has lost all its meaning. At least that is my opinion. I think I will just refer to my chocolates as ' small batch and hand crafted."
Oh we could have a long tirade of over used notions.. Dark chocolate? Abused percentages? Starbucks trying to own the word macchiatoand then redefining it as something that it's not.. The incorrect usage of Gourmet.. Whitewashing, Greenwashing, Pinkwashing..
As a marketer I'm jaded--for a fun (hehe) read check out Brandwashing.
http://thatisnotartisan.blogspot.com/
Very funny blog about exactly what you are talking about...
Jess
Has the word 'Artisan' as an adjective been over used? This is a question that was recently posed to me by one of my friends who saw it as a description for a product at Dunkin Donuts. As someone who uses this word to describe my own products it gave me great pause and I started to pay more attention to the word as a descriptor. I've now seen it used on products that are clearly factory made and on bakery and chocolate items that are made from hand with great care.
According to Websters 'Artisan' when used as an adjective is: pertaining to or noting high quality, distinctive products made in small quantities: ie artisan beer.
Not to beat up on any company in particular but it would appear that perhaps this word has been used incorrectly at the very least in some product descriptions. As much as I love Dunkin Donuts coffee I would never use 'Artisan' to describe any of their products, I feel the same way about large bakery chains using this word to describe their breads and pastries.
So what do you think? Has 'Artisan' jumped the shark as it were?
Mark
Has anybodymixed chocolate, for instance 1/2 milk chocolate and 1/2 54% chocolate to create a chocolate blend of 43% cacao or something similar? If so, how did it work out? Are there any pitfalls? How will this change the tempering properties? I will be tempering in a Selmi unit.
Any advice is much appreciated.
David
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During Easter I had something similar happen to enrobed marshmallows. The first round was good, we did a second round and hey looked good but quickly went white after setting up. We let the machine run a while longer, and tested again and we were fine. We posited that we were not really ever fully in temper, that seeding had not totally occurred and while we got a fluke good batch, the majority needed more time to settle into a temper.
You can re-temper and coat them twice but that's going to give you one heck of a thick shell. I really doubt that the bloom will come through. Blooming doesn't really operate like that afaik.
Good luck and sorry to hear about this, nothing worse than doing a production run of something to find out an endemic problem with it all.
Many people don't clean their molds - they'll use the same one over and over for a given type of chooclate. Of course that only works if your temper is perfect each time, and if you're using the same colors each time.
I'm a fan of just using hot water. If your water is hard, you'll have to find a way to remove the minerals that are deposited behind - sometimes a cotton ball to buff it out works, but over time even that'll scratch up the molds.
Daniela, I also realized that leaving the chocolates on the molds the shiny improves. Unfortunatelly, I don't have enought molds!
If all of the pieces are round, they may have been polished and glazed through panning. If they are you can taste it just before the chocolate melts.
Amazing!!!
Is it possible to share with us those techniques you mention?
Thanks!!!
Hi Sebastian,
What do you mean with "pre tempering"?
How should I clean the molds? Just water? Cold water?
Thanks!!
When you get the shine right, it can be spectacular, but takes a lot of practice and some extra techniques to get it super shiny - I have attached one of ours to show the shine we achieve. No glaze, nothing added, just manipulating the coca butter pretty much in the manner laid out here (a couple of other things as well but nothing overly substantial)
I also heard you can leave your chocolates on the molds and they come out shinier. Never tried it, but this was said by Greg Cook from Chocolate Arts
he also mentioned the sprayed cocoa butter/chocolate on the molds. I'm glad it worked for you.
It work, but the shiny change a little bit based on the mold shape. Anyway I could get the shiny of the picture attached on this discussion.