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Most of the effort comes at the beginning during development of the process, formulations, facility. I always produced lower quantities, about 40kg per month or over 500 chocolate bars.

I would work nights, weekends and ocasional afternoons. It was a lot of fun. When making chocolate, you end up smelling like chocolate. Your skin and clothing get a chocolate scent that even stranger can recognize. My wife was super cooperative. I trained a few chocolate makers.

I also saw making chocolate as nice change from working around computers all my life. Yet, after machines break down, chocolate gets splattered all over walls and floors, chocolate loses temper, or a batch of bad cocoa arrives, I ended up appreciating all the beauties of software development and managing virtual servers.

Do checkout Potomac Chocolate, he is a solid chocolate maker in Virginia who is also a sysadmin by profession.