BBC’s The One Show challenged the experts at Nestle to make a chocolate teapot capable of brewing up a hot and tasty beverage.
In some parts of the world frivolous and underperforming people and things are described as being ‘as useful as a chocolate teapot’.
BBC’s The One Show challenged the experts at Nestle to prove that saying wrong by making a chocolate teapot capable of brewing up a hot and tasty beverage.
Well, it turns out that the saying does not, in fact, have merit, as long as the boiling water doesn’t sit in the pot for more than two minutes or get stirred.
Achieving success, however, took quite a bit of doing.
John Costello, the company’s master chocolatier, spent six weeks working with scientists to devise a plan and hours executing it.
He started by making a bowl out of a dark chocolate containing 65 percent cocoa solids and a relatively low amount of fat.
Next came crafting the spout, which required a good chunk of the workday.
First, a silicon mold had to be slowly and carefully filled with multiple thin layers of melted chocolate that were each allowed to solidify.
Costello drilled a hole through its center to allow for the passage of liquid.
In the end, it successfully produced a robust cup of tea with just the slightest hint of chocolate flavor.
