okay so i often watch these chocolate guy videos and think to myself “what is the point of making this out of chocolate? modeling chocolate is reportedly disgusting, this is not really intended for consumption, why doesn’t he just make it out of clay or something”
but watching this video i FINALLY realized.
chocolate is the only sculpture medium that you can melt and then freeze for effect without some serious equipment.
like. the process of letting the chocolate drip down over the water balloon? yeah that chocolate only needs to be, like, a little over 100F/38C. that’s a touchable temperature, that’s something that you can put your fingers in without burning them off. and then it freezes again at about room temperature! and granted you want the ambient environment a little colder than room temperature, because otherwise the heat from your hands will start to melt it, but again, being able to melt this medium with your hands isabonus.
clay doesn’t melt. you can make it liquid-y by adding water, but that doesn’t harden up again afterwards, or when it does, it’s EXTREMELY fragile. plastic melts, but at pretty high temperatures that can be dangerous to handle, and it’s also really easy to burn and will release toxic gases when it does burn. metal melts, but that’s obviously even HOTTER and MORE dangerous. wood doesn’t melt. stone technically melts but like. good luck with that one.
chocolate melts at a reasonable, human-touchable temperature and freezes again at room temperature, which means you can make solid shapes from dripping or pouring melted chocolate and letting it harden.
the only other sculpting medium i know that does that is wax, and i think wax is generally too soft/malleable overall for the kind of large structures that this guy makes.
so i finally, FINALLY fucking get why he does this shit in chocolate oh my god.
I thought this was plastic at first so I was super confused as to why OP was freaking out over the fact that it writes
But then I realized
Oh
It’s the chocolate guy
FUCK OFF
@thebibliosphere, you like chocolate makers, right? I hope this brings some cheer to your week!
What fucking wizardry… HOW
It’s in the School of Chocolate show I’ve been raving about! Love this show, it’s like GBBO but more chocolate. Chef Amaury is so ridiculously supportive.
“oh what nice glassblowing what a nice little art piece– FUCKING CHOCOLATE GUY????”
SCREAM
Babe wake up, that fucking chocolate guy has moved on to other candy
Question, does Chocolate guy know the community of followers he has on this hellsite or is he just blissfully unaware because both situations are incredibly funny
