Manufacturing Waialua Chocolate

Chocolate Factory workers cutting open the Coco Pods. The Beans are removed by hand from the Coco Pods and fermented in wooden barrels. Then left in the drying racks till they are ready. The next step happens in a factory off site.

The hills around the waialua sugar mill are planted with coffee and Coco Trees.I think it is around 20 acers of chocolate in Waialua. If you are a resident of Hawaii or a visitor this is a fun and of the beaten path
thing to do on Oahu.
The Chocolate Factory is right behind a Island-X store and if you look out the back door you can sneek a peek at the Factory.

Remove Chocolate beans
Remove Chocolate beans

Pile up the pods
Pile up the chocolate pods

ferment the chocolate beans
Fermenting Waialua coffee beans

air dry the beans
Waialua coffee sifter
Coco Beans
Coco Beans
chocolate fermenting tubs
chocolate fermenting tubs
Coco Beans drying in Hawaii
air drying Waialua Coco beans

Crates of Coco Pods

Waialua Chocolet

The Pods are cut in half
Waialua Coco pods
Dole is the company farming Coco
Cacao Pods Farmed in Waialua
Coco pods in Hawaii

Cocoa Butter is the fat that occurs naturally in cacao beans.
Chocolate Liquor is the finely ground center of the cocao bean which contains that familiar Chocolate tast. 5o percent cocoa butter, it liquefies when heated. Known as unsweetened or baking chocolate.
Cocoa a powder made by extracting most of the cocoa butter from chocolate liquor and then pulverizing the remaining hard cake.
Milk Chocolate is a mixture of cocoa butter, sugar, milk,and at least 10 pecent chocolate liquer.
Sweet Chocolate is a mixture of carbohydrate sweeteners and at least 15 percent chocolate liquor.
White Chocolate is a mixture of cocoa butter, sugar, milk and flavorings.


If you are looking to get off the beaten path on Oahu this is it. The Chocolate Factory in the Waialua Sugar Mill on Oahu's famous North Shore should be on your list. Most people how live on Oahu have no idea we grow Coco Trees on the Island and turn the beans into Chocolate. This is not a full on Tour of Chocolate the Factory more of a sneek peek behind the scenes of a Chocolate proccessing plant.