Chocolate Science eBook
A 40+ page guide to crystallisation, emulsions, water activity and stabilisation — for chocolatiers who want to understand the why. Just £5.
Buy it once. Own it for good.A lab water-activity test can cost more than this for a single recipe.
Know a ganache’s shelf life before you make it
The ChocoX Shelf-Life Predictor reads your recipe and estimates its water activity and likely shelf-life category in seconds — with a cautious worst case, a confidence rating and a plain-English explanation. No aw meter, no lab, no guesswork.
Real Windows software
A practical desktop program, not another browser subscription.
Why chocolatiers use it
Science on your side, without the lab bill
In an independent test against more than 250 recipes in Callebaut’s Chocolatier’s Kitchen, it matched the book or erred on the cautious side about 93% of the time — and caught 52 of the 55 genuinely short-life recipes. See the testing →
Answers in secondsType a recipe, get a shelf-life estimate before you make a batch.
Honest, not blindGives a cautious worst case, a confidence rating and when to lab-test.
Buy once — £25No subscription. Works on your own PC, offline.
Built for ganacheTrained on real measured-aw chocolate recipes, by a chocolatier.
How it works
Three steps from recipe to answer
- Type your recipeEnter each ingredient and its weight in grams. The program shows how it understood each one.
- Press PredictIt estimates water activity and a shelf-life category, with a worst case and a confidence rating.
- Read the whySee which ingredients raised or lowered the risk, and whether a lab test is advised.
Product video
See the Predictor in action
A short walkthrough: entering a ganache recipe, reading the prediction, exploring what changes the shelf life, and printing a guidance card.
More than a number
It explains what moved the water activity
The Predictor doesn’t just hand you a figure. It shows which ingredients pushed the water activity up or down, flags borderline recipes honestly, and tells you when the safest course is a real keeping trial. It is a risk advisor — it does not replace laboratory aw testing for formal shelf-life validation.
Also from ChocoX
Round out your chocolate science
Free: Chocolatier’s Kitchen Index
A free index of the recipes in Callebaut’s Chocolatier’s Kitchen, reordered alphabetically by prime ingredient — find every recipe built around an ingredient at a glance.
Prodexa — batch & production manager
From the same maker: a Windows program to manage stock, recipes, production batches, costing and printed labels. For chocolatiers who want full batch records and traceability.
Stop guessing your ganache shelf life
Buy the Shelf-Life Predictor once for £25, download it, and get a considered shelf-life estimate for every recipe you make.