Jacques Torres Chocolate Factory Photo Tour
Chocolate Turkeys
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
Here, one of the chocolatiers paints molds with melted chocolate.
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Vats of Chocolate
These vats of dark and milk chocolate are used to fill molds.
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Candied Ginger
Here, an employee places candied ginger onto a machine that will cover each piece in chocolate.
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Chocolate-Covered Ginger
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
Assorted chocolate boxes are filled by hand.
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Chocolate Bonbons
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
There is an entire room dedicated to cookies. Here, giant, gooey rocky road cookies still in the oven.
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Chocolate Pumpkins
Chocolate pumpkin molds ready for use as candy dishes.
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Chocolate Ghost with Bat Buddy
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.