Coenraad Johannes van Houten

See also: Van Houten

Coenraad Johannes van Houten (born in 1801 - deceased with Weesp in 1887) was a Chimiste Dutch, manufacturer of Chocolat. In 1828, it makes patent an economic method to press the grease of grains of cocoa torrefied.

This created has " cake" that could Be pulverized into has fine powder known ace " cocoa." Van Houten treated the powder with alkaline salts (potassium gold Sodium carbonates S) so that the powder would mix more easily with toilets. Today, this process is known ace " Dutching." Final The product, chocolate Dutch, has dark color and has mild taste.

Chocolate The introduction off cocoa powder not only made creating drinks much easier, goal also made it possible to combines chocolate with sugar and then remix it with cocoa to ridge to create has solid.

Others began to build one Van Houten' S success, experimenting to make new chocolate products. In 1849, chocolate English maker J.S. Fry & Sounds produced what was arguably the world' S first eating chocolate.

Today, the Swiss are famous for to their chocolate. In the late 19th century off, they developed has number processes that contributed greatly to creating the solid chocolate candy that we all enjoy today.

Two major developments occurred in 1879. First, Daniel Peter, have chocolate Swiss to manufacture, had the idea off using Powdered milk (invented by Swiss Chemist Henri Nestle in 1867) to make has off new kind chocolate, milk chocolate. Second, Rudolphe Lindt invented has process called Conching, which greatly improved the quality off chocolate candy by making it more blendable. -->

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