Siena Brief:

Conscientious Chocolate is a chocolate maker about bringing awareness to the time-consuming, process of making chocolate. as well as the negative aspects of mass manufacturing chocolate. while also being a compact tool with multiple uses. 

This concept exists because there are a lot of negative aspects of mass-producing chocolate. An example of this is that companies like Hersheys and Nestley use child labor to farm their cocoa beans. Also, the average person eats about eleven pounds of chocolate per year, but the average cocoa tree only produces about one pound of chocolate per year. This ratio is not sustainable. Conscientious Chocolate includes a nibbler, a piece of wood which has a 3d printed spiky piece on it so it can break cocoa beans into nibs. The nibbler connects to an axle that has a grinder on the other side. The grinder is another 3d printed piece that is shaped like a lightbulb it pulverizes the cocoa beans. All three elements of the design were covered in resin to make the project food-safe. During the process, there needs to be something to hold the cocoa beans, so there is a 3d printed piece that changes from a box(for the nibbler) to bowl(for the grinder). it's important for people to understand the amount of time and effort it takes to make chocolate. So next time they think twice before buying a bar of chocolate instead of making it themselves.

'Anara's Brief'

'Conscientious Chocolate' A project designed to bring awareness to how much work and time goes into the chocolate producing and making. The project is a compact chocolate making kit that you can flip on different sides to use in a convenient way.

In the current chocolate industry, there are many faults. The Conscientious Chocolate is designed to bring awareness to two large problems. One, is children being used for labor in the picking, and drying of the beans. The second is the imbalance of the amount of chocolate being grown to the amount being eaten. The average cacao tree grows around half a pound worth of chocolate a year, while the average human eats about eleven pounds in one year. Using the kit, it takes around three hours to make a couple pieces of chocolate, and a lot of manual labor. The kit is made of 3d printed materials covered in food safe resin. The product consists of two features:  a two sided bowl and a crusher. One side of the bowl  is round like a mortar and pestle, to grind the cacao into chocolate; the other side has a flat bottom to crush the beans into nibs. The crusher consists of two sides: a flat side, that fits into the flat bowl, it is a circle with a bumpy base that crushes the nibs. The other side of the crusher is a round club that allows the nibs to more finely ground into chocolate paste.