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Nick: Chocolate is one of the most popular foods on the planet.
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But did you know it all comes from this weird looking fruit shaped like a dinosaur egg? In this video, I'll take you from farm to factory to show you how chocolate is made, and at the end, we'll use all the chocolate you'll see in this video to attempt the Guinness World Record for the world's largest chocolate bar. And it all starts with the cacao tree. This right here is where it all begins.
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This little flower here will eventually grow into a pod, which will eventually grow into something slightly bigger, then bigger, then even bigger, and then finally into something like this.
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So yes, technically chocolate does grow on trees.
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So now that you have some context on where cacao comes from, I'm going to introduce you to a really close friend of mine who I call the modern day Willy Wonka.
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He's a little crazy, but he knows more about chocolate than anyone on this planet.
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Oded: Hey, what's up? Nick: Oded!
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Oded: You come to see some cacao?
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Nick: I'm ready for chocolate, baby.
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Oded: Let's go see it.
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Nick: So these guys have already picked a bunch of pods for us to look at.
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Oh my gosh! Cacao really kind of does look like a big ice cream cone.
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The seeds can come right off of the cacao pod like that.
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This is all going to be opened up now so they can take the seeds out.
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Oded: There's no machine. All the chocolate that we eat is harvested by hand.
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Nick: For the world record that we're going to attempt later in this video, we need 250,000 cacao pods. So this is just the start.
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So you can eat this right now and you suck off all the white pulp on the outside of each seed.
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Oded: When you don't dry the cacao beans, they are purple inside.
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Nick: It tastes a little bit like lychee, pineapple, citrusy, kind of almost like a bit of a sour banana., sometimes. It's phenomenal.
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There are two main things you can do with this cacao fruit.
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Oded: You can drink the juice of the cacao fruit.
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Nick: Think of cacao water like coconut water, but ten times better.
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And then what's the other thing?
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Oded: Obviously chocolate. You take the beans, ferment them, grind them, turn them into chocolate.
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Nick: Let's go see how it's made.
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Oded: That's it. Nick: Before we go to the actual chocolate factory, we're at the place where they make the cacao water.
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Oded: We separate the pulp from the beans.
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Beans goes to make chocolate. Pulp goes to make cacao water.
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We put it into the cold press machine, getting all the cacao water out.
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Nick: And that's going to be the freshest cacao water you'll ever taste? Oded: Ever. Nick: It looks a little like coconut water. It gives you a little bit of a kick that you get from biting a lemon slice, and it just tastes kind of tropical.
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Chocolate is bitter, sometimes sour, earthy.
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This is sweet, fresh, citrusy.
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But never in a million years would you think that this kind of flavor is associated with chocolate. If you want to get creative, you can also turn this fruit pulp into cacao fruit leather, you guys know how much I love making fruit leather, or even these chewy cacao fruit snacks which look a lot like ground turkey while they're being made. But now that we've seen how you can use that fruity outer part of the beans, we'll go see how the inside of the bean is used to make chocolate.
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We've made it to the chocolate factory and take a guess at what's in all these different bags around me. If you guessed cacao beans, you'd be right.
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But these beans can't go inside the factory until they've been fermented and dried.
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Fermenting the beans is an important step that allows them to develop all of that chocolatey flavor. In about a week, they'll go from looking like this to something like this.
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Oded: You can smell their...
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Nick: They smell a little bit...
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Oded: Fermentation.
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Nick: Yeah, like like a little bit like yeasty sourdough bread.
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Oded: Exactly.
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Nick: What would a chocolate bar taste like if you didn't ferment?
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Oded: Very bland. Flat, probably just bitter.
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Boring. Nothing like interesting.
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And then you take this to the drying process.
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Nick: Once all the cacao is laid out to dry, it just sits here in the hot Ecuadorian sun.
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And there's so much of it that I can literally make a chocolate snow angel.
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All these seeds that are drying here, they flip them over every 15 to 30 minutes to make sure that they're constantly being moved, and that new ones are in the sun to dry. And we haven't made chocolate yet, but it's already starting to smell like chocolate. So once the seeds are nice and dry, they're all broken open like this.
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And on the inside we get what looks a lot like a dinosaur egg.
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But if you actually break all this apart in your hand and crumble it up a little bit, those are cacao nibs. People put them on things like smoothie bowls all the time. But if you grind these together into a paste, sort of like if you grind peanuts into peanut butter, it makes this sort of chocolate paste, which we're gonna go see now. Welcome to the Hershey's Chocolate factory.
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This is about as close as you're ever gonna get to real life Willy Wonka.
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You can see here that they have this huge hose with perfectly smooth chocolate paste.
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But just moments ago, that chocolate paste was in the form of these cacao nibs. So this liquid chocolate paste can literally be turned into anything now.
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Jeremy: Correct. Nick: Right? It's like eating a liquid chocolate bar.
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Jeremy: It is like eating a liquid chocolate bar.
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Nick: How could you not like it? Now that we're in the Hershey's chocolate factory, I have two goals today. First, I want to see how Hershey's Kisses are made because I've seen some cool videos online and it looks awesome.
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And second, we need to make some chocolate bars.
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So now we're in the room where the Hershey's Kisses are made. In front of us is this giant crazy machine that's pumping out Hershey's Kisses.
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Jeremy: 24 hours a day. There's some debate as to why, historically, they've been called kisses. So Milton Hershey developed the kisses in the early 1900s. The story goes that because of the product kissing the belt, that's how the name was created.
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Nick: I mean, seeing this right now, that would be my guess.
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And you make 70 million of these every single day?
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Jeremy: 70 million kisses a day! After the depositor, now we go through the cooling tunnel where we cool the kisses till they're solid.
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Nick: Look how long this tunnel goes down.
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I can hardly even see the end of it.
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Jeremy: There's a continuous belt and the kisses ride on going through cooling, so that way the kiss is hardened.
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Nick: You can see a small break right here in the tunnel.
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Jeremy: This is where our operators can do their quality checks. They take kisses offline, check to make sure that the shape is correct, and they also weigh them off to make sure that they are the correct weight.
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Nick: And so that's a that's a laser that's checking every single Hershey's kiss to make sure that it's the perfect little shape. I love how they're all kind of taking a little jump right there, too.
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Jeremy: Now finally they exit here.
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Nick: And now they're cool.
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Jeremy: Right. They're ready for packaging now. Kisses come here onto the belt. They go through a system of laning that gets them ready to go into the individual wrappers.
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Nick: Look at that. What a cool view.
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I wonder how many Hershey's kisses I've eaten in my life.
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Like a good chunk of this assembly line.
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Jeremy: As you see here, we've got the further separation or caning of the kisses so they can go into the infeeds of the wrapper.
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Nick: When they're just coming off the line, they look so perfect.
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Jeremy: That's the goal. So you see the shape of the kiss, the way it has a little bit of a bevel on the bottom, and it comes up to a point at the top.
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Nick: The nice thing is, most of the time they end up looking like this when you get it in the package. Sometimes you put it in your pocket, it melts, you ruin your pants. Now that we've inspected all the Hershey's Kisses, they're good to keep moving. From here, they'll start to get diverted to either side to go to one of these wrapping machines.
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Jeremy: So as the belt empties out here, this arm comes out to pull more kisses into the infeed.
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Nick: Just tons of Hershey's Kisses and they're all doing the same thing.
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Everything is mesmerizing.
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I appreciate Hershey's Kisses so much more right now.
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Jeremy: From here, from this infeed belt, the kisses then are single filed through this scanning system here, so that way they can go individually into the wrapper to have the flag and foil applied and then wrapped. So as the kisses come out of the conveyor, they go down this chute onto the conveyor belt.
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We have that spiral in there.
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So that way we're handling the kisses as delicately as possible, so they look as pristine for the consumer as they do when they come off the line.
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Nick: So they all get sorted by that big machine, and then they come here to get individually weighed and measured out.
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Jeremy: The kisses are coming through. We got a vibratory conveyor to feed them in.
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And then each of these individual buckets has weigh hopper scales to know how much kisses are in it. The computer system inside the bagger then drops the right combination of scales to make the target weight for wherever bag size we're running.
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Nick: After all the kisses are sorted out, now we have to package them into bags.
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And this roll right here is where it all starts.
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So the kisses have been weighed out to the perfect amount, and then they drop through here and go straight into these bags, which then go onto this conveyor belt right here.
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Jeremy: That conveyor belt will take them to our case packer. The bags come down the conveyor and the robotic arm then is placing them into the case, into the right configuration, based on the item that we're running. After the cases are filled, they come through. They go through a vibrator to shake out the bags inside the case to make sure that they fill in properly.
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The robotic head now is going to go over. It's going to pick up cases. It's going to put them on in the right orientation that it needs for the load that it's building.
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Nick: And this is the finished bag. I can open it?
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Jeremy: You can open it here. Yep.
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Nick: Oh it even smells fresh.
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Jeremy: You can smell the chocolate.
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Nick: And they look good. It passes the inspection for me again.
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This is the start of the chocolate bar process.
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Jeremy: We're running extra large bars today on this line.
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Nick: And obviously we need extra large chocolate bars to try to break the world record later, so this makes a lot of sense.
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Jeremy: The molds come through here. They're tempered to the right temperature before they go into the depositor. And then the depositor is dropping the right amount of chocolate into each of those cavities of the mold. After the chocolate is put into the mold, we've got to get the chocolate into the hole full cavity of the mold.
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So through this cabinet, the molds go side to side and through vibration, the mold gets shaken and the chocolate distributes throughout the whole mold. So we're trying to get air bubbles out and fill up the whole cavity. So the candy comes out of the shaker cabinet and then it goes into our cooler.
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Nick: This is me for scale. It's a big fridge, and you can totally see now that they're already cooled off. You know, when you've been at home and you have an ice tray that you're trying to get the ice out of, and you kind of bend the ice tray on either side to push the ice out.
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That's what's happening right here with all these chocolate bars. This machine is basically doing exactly that.
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Jeremy: So after the mold twisters, the candy goes through the de-molding cabinet where the molds are turned upside down and the chocolate is separated from the mold and onto the de-molding belt.
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And then this belt is timing the rows.
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So that way instead of mold groups we have them lined out in rows.
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Nick: So how many bars do you make every day?
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Jeremy: So across all the lines here at West Hershey, we make about 9 million bars a day.
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That's more than enough to make a world record.
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Nick: We gotta quality check these two.
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Jeremy: You take that one. Each one of those little blocks is a pip.
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So we're taking a look at it, making sure that they're all there. And they all say Hershey.
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Nick: This looks even more perfect than the kisses.
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It's shimmering in the light here.
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I'm looking up close on this thing. I don't think I see anything wrong at all. It passed the shiny test, but let's see if it passes the crack test.
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You ready? Three. Two.
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One. Oh, yeah. I think these are winners.
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Jeremy: All marks of a good temper and a good bar.
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Nick: We saw the bars downstairs, and then they get lifted up here by this conveyor belt system. And then they're going down this line.
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Jeremy: Right, here into the infeed.
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Nick: So these lasers are hard at work, because every time they see an empty gap between the bars, they speed up the other conveyor belt to catch them up to the bars ahead of them. Jeremy: That's right. Nick: That's amazing.
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Jeremy: So after the lasers get them all together, we then have the turning belt.
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The turning belts are turning the bars, so that way they're end to end as opposed to side to side to feed into the wrapper.
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Nick: More lasers.
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Jeremy: They're controlling speed. We have other ones that are looking for gaps in the bars. Also for broken bars, if there's any broken bars, it's going to reject those down here so that they don't get wrapped.
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Nick: So if one of the bars somehow breaks, the laser sees it, and then that little thing right there blows it with air and discards it.
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How are they wrapped?
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Jeremy: You got the film here, which again, similar to like we saw in kisses. We have the roll stock that goes through, fed through the line, and then it's wrapped around the bar all at a in a high speed. You can see them down in here, see the bars feeding in? The wrap goes around the bar and it's sealed.
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Nick: This whole wrapping system is crazy to watch because there's so many different ways and twists and turns.
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Jeremy: There's a lot going on.
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Nick: When the machine's stopped for a second, you can see how the packaging kind of feeds over the top of the bar.
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But machines started moving again, so I couldn't finish my sentence.
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Jeremy: The bars come out in the wrapper, they go through the wheel, gripper heads pick them up and put them onto the trays.
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Nick: It moves incredibly fast at the end each time.
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That's just using suction, just air to pick them all up and then stack them up perfectly so that they can then go into boxes.
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Once you've seen all that chocolate get boxed up, it goes around these crazy conveyor belts that go all over this entire building.
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These are one of the things that makes it feel in here, like Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. Now that we've made more chocolate than you could ever imagine, let's take all that chocolate and try to make the world's largest chocolate bar.
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Over the next 24 hours, this warehouse in Ecuador will be completely transformed from this to this.
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We can't build this chocolate bar outside because it's about 95 degrees in Ecuador.
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So we're bringing all this chocolate from the farm to a giant warehouse, which is going to be air conditioned. And that's where we're going to build the bar.
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This is pretty fun. Oh, let's go break the record.
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Currently, the Guinness World Record World's largest chocolate bar is 383m² in size.
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And behind me is the layout for a 400 square meter chocolate bar.
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If we pull this off, this bar will be the same size as a full size basketball court.
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Weigh the same as 183,000 regular chocolate bars, and if you melted it, you'd have enough to fill 80 bathtubs with all of that chocolate that we're bringing inside. This is going to be happening all day long behind the scenes.
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The whole team here is just going to be unpacking boxes and boxes and boxes of chocolate. As we know, Guinness World Records is very strict.
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We have to clean ourselves off really well, then hairnets on, then we have to put these funny looking things on our shoes and we can step on.
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It's showtime.
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Patrick: Oh, let's do it.
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Nick: We're going to start by placing the bars down in the middle of this whole mat, but it has to be one full chocolate bar to count as a record.
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So what we have here is just a bag of melted chocolate, basically like a chocolate hot glue gun. And we're going to very carefully go in between all the chocolate bars so that everything starts to stick together.
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Oh, wow. Patrick: That looks crazy.
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Nick: That's so cool. Patrick: Well, now we've just got 9000 more to go.
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Nick: Now, that we've started working on the bar. I know I've already given you guys some comparisons, but just so you understand, it's going to take 11 tons of chocolate to fill this whole white mat here.
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That's about the same weight as two fully grown elephants.
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And if you ate a square of this every single day, it'd take you 30 years to finish it.
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Look how long this chocolate bar is already becoming. It's crazy.
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Look at Oded. Here comes Willy.
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How's it feel to be trying to make the biggest chocolate bar in the world?
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Oded: When you are Willy Wonka, you make the biggest chocolate bar every day.
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But this time, it's going to be the biggest I've made in my life.
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Nick: By the way, guys, I haven't talked about this yet, but this room smells really good.
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Oded: Chocolate.
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Nick: We are having a lot of people come and help throughout the day because it's so much chocolate.
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Oded: It's already, what, an hour?
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I hope we're going to make it on time.
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Nick: The name of the game here is speed.
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I always get so nervous in the corners because it's like, did we mess it up or will it fit? The moment of truth...
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Is it gonna fit?
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Patrick: Like a glove.
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Nick: What do we do if it didn't? Oded: Fire the Oompa Loompa!
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What's the name of this big kid in the movie of Charlie and the chocolate? Patrick: Cut the cameras.
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Oded: The big one.
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Nick: Augustus gloop.
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Oded: Yeah. Augustus Gloop. That's the kid.
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Nick: I have an idea. You go to that end, I'll go here.
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We'll race to the middle.
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Oded: Augustus, ready?
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Patrick: Fire this guy right now!
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Oded: Nick. Ready?
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Nick: Yes. Oded: Go! Nick: It's gotta be perfect still, Pat.
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Patrick: Mine is gonna be more perfect than yours.
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Nick: The key to winning this race is to stay cool, calm and collected.
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Patrick: Usually in life, I like to stress.
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And then it all works out.
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Nick: I think I'm gonna go over to Pat's side before he even gets, like, a quarter of the way down.
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Patrick: I'm almost there.
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Nick: Pat, I'm so far past the middle already.
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Oded: And the thing is also about doing it nice.
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Not just pouring chocolate all over like a crazy man.
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You need to start from the beginning. Look at that, Nick. He's out of the race.
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Nick: Disqualified, yeah. Oded: Out of the race.
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Patrick: Everyone's yelling at me today.
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Nick: So right now, my Oompa and I are lining up all the chocolate so that we can have it ready for them to pipe in that warm chocolate and glue it all together. Oop.
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Man 1: Dennis, have you seen any violations today?
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Dennis: Things are going very well right now.
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Man 1: What if anybody ate any of the chocolate?
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Dennis: You can't eat the chocolate right here. Take it in another room.
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Have you eaten any chocolate?
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Nick: No. Dennis: You're lying. The risk factor for me is very low. Oh.
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Nick: Did you get that on camera?
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Patrick: Nick, what happened?
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Nick: The lights went off. One thing we're dealing with during this record is once in a while, right now in Ecuador, they're having an issue with the energy grid.
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And so the lights just shut off sometimes. It should come back on with the generator.
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Patrick: The most important part, though, is the air conditioning because it's 95 degrees outside and it could melt this chocolate.
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Nick: This is bad. It's been five minutes now. They're using flashlights over there right now to keep working on the chocolate bar. Oh, I think that's the generator.
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That sounds good. That sounds good.
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Patrick: Oh, it just went off again.
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Nick: This is really not good.
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Now, been 18 minutes with no power.
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Starting to freak out, guys.
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Patrick: It went from bad to worse.
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Nick: We need power. It'd be crazy if it went on, like, right now. No. Well, at this point, guys, it's been over 30 minutes with no power, so we're gonna get back to work in the dark, because otherwise, this is never gonna get finished.
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Oded: I'll tell you what worries me.
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Nick: Yeah?
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What's that? Oded: No power, no AC.
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Patrick: Yeah.
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Oded: If this starts to melt... Patrick: It's over.
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Oded: It's not only over, it's like, what are we going to do with all this mess here? It's going to go all over the place. It reminds me what happened in the movie.
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You know, you were there.
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Patrick: I already feel that the chocolate is getting a little softer.
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Willy Wonka, what do we do here?
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Oded: Honestly, there's no solutions.
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Not in my chocolate Bible.
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Nick: So we just got a bad update from the health inspector.
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Dennis: The temperature is 75 right now.
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If it gets above 80, the chocolate is going to start to melt.
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Nick: And if we get to 80 degrees, video is done.
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No record. Patrick: Dude, it's actually getting very hot in here.
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Oh. Nick: Let's go! We're back!
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Dennis: I can feel the AC back on.
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Temperature's starting to come down. As long as this holds out, you're going to be back on schedule.
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Nick: With the lights finally back on, we can start building again.
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But this chocolate bar is taking way longer than we expected. So I'm just going to show you guys a really cool time lapse.
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And now we're 50% of the way through on this chocolate bar.
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As you can see, we had to bring in a few extra helpers. We were never going to finish this thing otherwise. We've done about 80 rows out of the 106 that we need to do to complete the entire chocolate bar.
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Oded: I think it's the biggest chocolate mirror.
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Look how shiny it is. Literally, you need the Willy Wonka sunglasses.
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Nick: The shine means that it's been perfectly tempered, which means when we snap it later, it should have a perfect snap. Oded: Clack.
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Nick: We've sort of been patrolling throughout the day, and word on the street right now is the corner in the back there is working a little bit slow. We're going to step in and help them out. Look at all your chocolate all over you.
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Look at this.
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Oded: This is a real Oompa Loompa.
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Nick: How did you get all this chocolate on you?
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Man 2: I love chocolate. Nick: You love chocolate?
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I think it looks cool.
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Patrick: And you smell delicious.
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Nick: We started today at 7:30 a.m.
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and now it is 7:22 p.m..
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And in this last corner, we're now down to just ten squares left.
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Patrick: Nine. Eight. Seven. Six.
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Five. Four. Three. Two.
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One. All right, Nick, here it is.
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Nick: You guys ready for the reveal of what we hope is about to be the world's largest chocolate bar?
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We did it! After 22,000 lbs of chocolate and lots of teamwork, this is unofficially the biggest chocolate bar ever made in the history of the world.
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But now it's up to the Guinness World Records officials whether this is a new world record.
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Woman 1: The current world record for the largest chocolate bar by area is 383m².
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After all the measurements...
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You have achieved... a new Guinness World Records title.
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Nick & Oded: Yes! Woo!
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Nick: None of this chocolate will go to waste. We're gonna break this whole chocolate bar up and give it to kids all across Ecuador.
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Wait wait wait. I literally just realized we never tried it.
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Patrick: Oh, yeah. Cheers. That is amazing.
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Nick: The end.
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Context & Background
In the engaging video titled "I Made The World's Largest Chocolate Bar," Nick takes viewers on an exciting journey through the world of chocolate, from its origin in the cacao tree to the production process in a factory setting. He introduces Oded, a chocolate expert, who shares fascinating insights about cacao and explains how this beloved treat is made. The dialogue blends informative content with a touch of humor, making it an enjoyable and educational experience for those interested in the culinary delights of chocolate.
Top 5 Phrases for Daily Communication
- “What would a chocolate bar taste like if you didn’t ferment?” - This phrase encourages discussion about the impact of processes on flavor.
- “You think of cacao water?” - This phrase can be used to express curiosity about unusual beverages.
- “Can you smell their fermentation?” - A great way to initiate a conversation about scents and aromas.
- “This tastes kind of tropical.” - Useful for describing flavors or experiences.
- “Let’s go see how it’s made.” - A versatile phrase that can apply to various contexts of exploration.
Step-by-step Shadowing Guide
To effectively learn English with YouTube using this transcript, follow this structured shadowing approach:
- Choose Your Objective: Focus on improving your English pronunciation and comprehension skills as you watch. Make sure to seek out specific speech patterns.
- First Viewing: Watch the video without pausing to get an overall understanding of the content. Pay attention to how Nick and Oded interact and the terminology used related to chocolate.
- Segment the Content: Break down the video into smaller sections. Focus on a few sentences or phrases at a time, such as Nick’s experience tasting cacao for the first time.
- Listen and Repeat: Use a shadowing app to practice speaking along with the video. Attempt to imitate not just the words but the tone and rhythm of the speakers. You might find it helpful to pause after each sentence and repeat it aloud.
- Record and Compare: Record your shadow speech and listen back to check for accuracy. Compare your pronunciation with the speakers to identify areas for improvement.
- Rewatch and Reflect: Go through the video again, now with a greater understanding. Try incorporating the new vocabulary and phrases into your own speaking or writing.
This method allows you to practice both comprehension and pronunciation while gaining new vocabulary in a fun and engaging way. Whether discussing exotic flavors or exploring unique culinary processes, you'll enhance your English skills effectively.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | If you guessed cacao beans, you'd be |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have already picked · we've seen · We've made |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is made · be opened · is harvested |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | pod, which will · ones that are · warehouse, which is |
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.