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Iron and Fire

Iron can be soften by fire
grows hard in the cold;
and all the gates therein
are, as it was, closed again.
So, often are those misled?
by luxury and pride,
who push humility aside:
thus, redemption their vanity
and perfection their virtue…
and in the end, they all collided.

#789 [7/9/05]

No Heroes

I’m still living all the places I’ve been
Dreaming of places I’d like to see
Catching airplanes, trains, and buses

In-between
Like a phantom at twilight!

I have no heroes, just extravagate hope;
They all seem to lose at the end, where

I begin.
Disbelieving in light, wherever it was
By the exitwaiting for the movie to end!

#790 [7/9/05]

Socrates, a man of iron and fire I’d say, and a hero too many; even a hero to the great Plato, for it was him, who cleared his good name up. They killed him for his philosophy (as they had killed Galileo for his). But here was a man who was not afraid of battle, or war, and lived his philosophy. He slept in tents, and figured it was time to live, ‘I’ll write later,’ or have someone write for me. Sometimes we cannot do both, and have to weigh the valor out. Thus, he achieved his noble glory; unfortunately I am not sure if I can say that for Plato or Aristotle, both of great minds, but we are, at the end, measured by our souls.

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Chocolate enthusiasts are always careful during this process since they know how important it is to turning their chocolate candies attractive; shine, snap, and creaminess aren’t natural to chocolates so they always make sure that their chocolates are properly tempered before they release it to the buying public. Even though the chocolates have gone through the process of conching, to smoothen out the particles, it should still be tempered to refine even more the detectable crystals, making the chocolate creamy and rich to the taste.

For chocolate to be real, it must be made out of cocoa butter, the one ingredient that can give the richness in chocolate. Cocoa liquor, which makes up chocolate, contains 55 to 60% cocoa butter. When chocolate didn’t go through tempering, cocoa butter will show up as whitish-gray blotches on the surface of your chocolate, and this condition is known as blooming.

The reason why tempering is such a complex process is the fact that the oils in cocoa butter can turn into six different crystalline forms at different melting and cooling temperatures. You want to maintain temperatures at their proper ranges so that the type of crystals that you want will be created.

Chocolate tempering is done three ways. The most intricate way of tempering manually involves cooling down chocolate on a marble slab. Chocolate is melted, then the first two-thirds is worked to the chocolate’s cooled-down temperature and consistency, then the remaining one-third is worked in the same way with the same objective in mind, always making sure that proper temperatures are observed.

The easier way of tempering chocolate manually is done through seeding. This entails melting 2/3 of the chocolate and mixing in the other 1/3, which is unmelted, till they’re melted together and the same consistency and temperature achieved. Again, temperatures must be maintained.

The most straightforward, most uncomplicated method of tempering chocolates is with the use of a chocolate tempering machine. These gadgets are equipped with a microprocessor to direct the tempering cycle and to maintain temperatures so that you’re left with a lot of time to focus more on crafting candies.