TGIF: Molecular chocolate

When eating this chocolate, you eat a molecular model of what you are eating (well, at least one of it’s components) – theobromine!

It’s the brainchild of two Belgians, chocolatier Pierre Marcolini and furniture designer Dirk Meylaerts. More info on the Belgian and US website.

The taste scheme used for the different elements does not seem to be quite consistent (i.e. each element represented by a unique color):

Carbon: matte brown (crunchy shell)

Nitrogen: golden (mixture of caramel, roasted pineapple and praline) + bronze (bitter ganache with gingerbread notes)

Hydrogen: white (milk chocolate ganache flavoured with raz-el-hanout, sheathed in white chocolate) + bronze (bitter ganache with gingerbread notes)

Oxygen: shiny dark brown (blend of chocolate and caramel ganache with a touch of tonka bean)

lamiacucina

March 2, 2007 / 1:18 pm Reply

As I like chocolate, you should convince Pierre Marcoloni to create a chocolate about cyanocobalamine, Vitamin B12. Much more chocolate to eat. And healthier than theobromine.
Felix

March 5, 2007 / 6:33 pm Reply

I like that a lot (but maybe just because it’s close to dinner time and I am hungry)
LabCat

March 16, 2007 / 6:17 pm Reply

Now that’s a great idea. There are lots of other molecules in chocolate that they could follow up with.

Edible science, yummm.
dirk meylaerts

April 4, 2007 / 1:07 pm Reply

thanks for the response! yes , i know it ‘s not completely correct..

there were some misunderstandings so sorry…design is still the art of compromise..

and i realise just now that ,yes , it’s funny as a reflection on molucular gastronomy

cheers
theobromophile

February 16, 2008 / 5:35 am Reply

Yum. Yum. Yum.

Theobromine, by the way, is very healthy. (If it weren’t, I would be dead already.)
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February 16, 2008 / 5:46 am Reply

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