Talk:Bean-to-bar

=Bean-to-Bar Chocolate Talk=

This article is about what BEAN-TO-BAR means to the craft and artisan chocolate makers that gave birth to the idea and concept of what is the acceptable terminology in both a legal sense and actual sense to inform consumers that their chocolate was produced by the same company from cocoa bean to chocolate bar. Normally bean-to-bar chocolate makers are not chocolatiers, however chocolatiers often use bean-to-bar chocolate; another rule of thumb with bean-to-bar is that it uses the whole chocolate bean plus additional ingredients. White chocolate cannot be classified as bean-to-bar, neither can Dutch or Swiss chocolate unless it is bean-to-bar. Bean-to-bar has always existed but the use of the "term" and introduction of the idea that has created the business model is connected to the artisan and craft chocolate movement Because of the widespread use and added value generated by the term, "big chocolate" has used it to compete with entrepreneurs causing new terms to emerge that set aside small-batch, rare, heirloom, wild and chocolates from their origins that cannot be duplicated by big chocolate or created using African or Asian chocolate.

There are many concepts and ideas within the legal realm of marketing for bean-to-bar chocolate that continues to distinguish it apart from big chocolate that cannot be approached well by a large corporation. Bean-to-bar manufacturing has been used to bring equality to the marketplace, raise the value of cocoa beans through direct-trade and much more.

Note: Bean-to-bar chocolate is a class of chocolate, whereas dark chocolate is a type of chocolate. Therefore "bean-to-bar style chocolate made by big chocolate" would be a sub-class of an industry dominated by the craft chocolate makers, as would "African slave free bean-to-bar" be a sub-class. Words should always be carefully chosen.

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