Theory 123/Chocolate tempering/Ratio lens
Snap Is Fat Against Sugar
The claim
The snap of chocolate is set by the ratio of fat crystal network to sugar particle packing, so the same recipe snaps differently with different conching.
01Mechanism
Snap requires a continuous fat network with dispersed particles; the ratio determines whether the network is continuous.
02Prediction
Snap should track the ratio.
03Refutation
Snap tracking fat content alone would remove particle packing.