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Mass Production Made Chocolate Candy Affordable
By the 1800s, new innovations and processes made it possible to create solid bars of chocolate for eating, not just liquid chocolate for drinking.

New inventions, machines, and mass production made chocolate affordable to a much broader public, not just the rich and famous.

	Compared with the old horse-, wind-, or human- operated mills, the steam-driven chocolate mill (invented in 1732) was a huge improvement. It made it much easier and faster to grind up cacao seeds and inexpensively produce large amounts of chocolate.
	In 1828, Dutchman Coenraad Van Houten invented the chocolate press. Still used today, this machine squeezes out cocoa butter and makes it possible to produce solid chocolate as well as cocoa powder.
	In 1847, the Fry & Sons Company of Bristol, England, introduced the first chocolate bar meant for eating as a snack.
	Many people in Mexico still enjoy making chocolate using manos, metates, and molinillos like the Maya, Aztec, and Spanish.

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