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Jacques Torres Chocolate Factory Photo Tour

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Updated May 08, 2019
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While Willy Wonka and his magical world of chocolate rivers and licorice trees may not exist, Jacques Torres and his spectacular New York City chocolate factory are very real. Recently, the legendary chocolatier gave F&W a tour of his giant, chocolate-packed production space. Sadly, we can’t share the incredible smells we experienced on the tour (they should be bottled and sold as perfume) but we can share some of what we saw. Here, a photo tour of Jacques Torres’s Brooklyn chocolate factory. —Justine Sterling
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Chocolate Turkeys

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Jacques wants to make every holiday a chocolate holiday—including Thanksgiving. These huge chocolate turkeys are meant to be centerpieces for Thanksgiving feasts.

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The Factory

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Here, one of the chocolatiers paints molds with melted chocolate.

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Vats of Chocolate

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These vats of dark and milk chocolate are used to fill molds.

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Candied Ginger

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Here, an employee places candied ginger onto a machine that will cover each piece in chocolate.

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Chocolate-Covered Ginger

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After the ginger is covered in chocolate, it goes through a refrigerated tunnel that hardens the chocolate coating.

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Assorted Chocolate Boxes

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Assorted chocolate boxes are filled by hand.

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Chocolate Bonbons

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A box of chocolate bonbons ready to be sent to stores around New York City where they’ll be packaged for sale.

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Rocky Road Cookies

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There is an entire room dedicated to cookies. Here, giant, gooey rocky road cookies still in the oven.

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Chocolate Pumpkins

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Chocolate pumpkin molds ready for use as candy dishes.

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Chocolate Ghost with Bat Buddy

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The factory makes all of these giant Halloween centerpieces by hand. Using a mold, the chocolatiers paint the facial features and the bat’s body in different colors of chocolate before washing it with three coats of dark chocolate.

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