Tecno is an original Chinese brand that is making big sales in Africa. The latest in the series of their products is the Phantom X which is their most advanced phone yet.
The Phantom X is an advanced version of the Camon 17 pro. It has an AMOLED panel instead of LCD and a more robust camera setup.
I will explain how to make chocolate from cocoa at home in 5 stages;
Harvesting.
Processing the Cocoa Seeds.
Roasting.
Grinding.
Storage.
Harvesting:
Cocoa tree
Cocoa
Use ripe cocoa for your chocolate. For the species of cocoa tree shown, the Yellow cocoa pods are the ripe ones. If you are buying, ensure you select the ripe ones.
Processing the Cocoa Seeds
Break the cocoa pods and remove the seeds from the stem holding them. Then store the seeds in a bowl and cover it for about a week. After a day or so, a type of juice will form depending on the amount of seeds being processed. It’s a fermented juice and its drinkable.
Fermented Cocoa beans after 7 days
sun dried cocoa beans
After a week, wash the seeds, spread them on a tray and dry in the sun for about 3 days. Look at the image below to see how sun dried cocoa beans look.
Roasting
Roasting cocoa beans
Roasted cocoa beans
Place the sun dried cocoa beans in a frying pan and roast the beans at moderate heat. Stir the beans frequently to ensure that all sections of the beans get hot and get done. When the beans are well roasted, they will give off a popping sound like popcorn. The outer shell of the cocoa beans will be very easy to remove. Roasting will take about 30mins or more.
After roasting, let the beans cool then remove their outer shells. Just apply slight pressure and the shell will crack and expose the real cocoa beans.
Grinding
blending cocoa beans
Blending cocoa beans
Grinding the roasted beans is hard work. You need patience here. I advise you to use a high powered blender. A blender rated 650W or more will be ideal. You can also use a hand or manual grinder.The goal is to grind the cocoa beans to be as smooth as possible.
Start bringing the beans dry. As you grind continuously it will eventually pasterise. The thick paste may be too strong for your blender/grinding machine to continue, you can add very little water to make it easier for the blender. If you are using a hand rotated manual grinder or a very powerful motor grinder then roasted cocoa beans are easier to blend.
After the beans have been grinded to a consistent smooth paste, you can then add sugar, milk and other flavors to taste and blend all together. Blend all to as smooth as possible.
Storage.
Chocolate cream
chocolate
Your chocolate creme is ready to consume after a smooth blend. To preserve your chocolate and get it tasting better, refrigerate it.
Facebook gets a new parent company called Meta. Meta is the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Whatsapp.
Meta is a technological company that helps people connect, find communities and grow businesses. Meta will move further into the 3D and Virtual reality world. The company will try to make people’s connectivity much more immersive.
According to the company’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta will venture into immersive (virtual reality) gaming, fitness, commerce, social connection, education and entertainment.
The company will be trading under a new stock name called MVRS on December 1st.
General Colin Luther Powell, a former secretary of state of the United States has died.He was aged 84 years. He was one of the highest ranking black American officials in the United States Government.
He was secretary of state under George W. BUSH. from 2001-2005. Before then he served as chairman, joint chief of staff (1989-1993) and United States National Security Advisor. (1987-1989).
Colin Powel was a four star general of the US army , the result of his 35 years in military service.
He is regarded as one of America’s great leaders. The only dent to his career was his open support and justification for Iraq which was later found to be wrong.
Colin Powell had blood cancer and was being treated for it but died from complications of COVID-19
WhatsApp has released a new update that will fully encrypts its messaging system. Last time out whatsapp encrypted person to person messages. This new latest update will encrypt chats history that have been stored in the cloud be it iCloud or Google drive.
What this means is that anyone who gains unauthorized access into your phone won’t be able to gain access to your whatsapp old chat history stored in the cloud.
Recall that whatsapp had long encrypted messages between users in its app. This last update fully encrypts the system, providing little or no backdoor for security agents.
Frances Haugen, former Facebook product manager, the whistleblower says Facebook is prioritizing profit over the safety of its users.
She claims that the company promotes harmful and misleading content to keep views engaged. She told the US Senate that the company has a lot of information at its disposal to analyze content and promote only those that are beneficial to people but it doing very little in this regard.
She is asking the Senate to regulate but not ban Facebook.
‘Shocking evidence’ has she implies, have been submitted to the senate to back up her claims.Recall that yesterday Facebook and all its associated sites were completely down for over 5 hours. People were left stranded. It is reported that the company has lost over 7bn dollars because of that incident alone. Their Stocks also fell by 5 percent.
