Question

After this substance’s viscosity is reduced by PGPR, a vibrating table removes its “tails” during enrobing to produce irregular countlines. Instead of cold-working, this substance is typically agitated with a granite roller to remove volatiles in the process of conching. This substance’s desirable beta-V (“beta-five”) polymorph is pre-crystallized by slowly cooling it below 94 degrees Fahrenheit with methods like “tabling” on a granite surface in order to minimize whitish (10[1])“bloom.” Makers (10[2])like Teuscher (10[2])(“TOY-shur”), Callebaut (“KAH-luh-bout”), and Valrhona send (10[1])couvertures (10[2])of this substance (10[1])to maîtres, who improve its “snap” (10[1])and glossy coating (10[2])with (10[1])tempering. (10[1])After this (10[1])substance’s heap-fermented (-5[1])nibs (10[1])are processed into (10[1])“liquor,” its theobromine-rich solids are alkalized (10[1])in the Dutch process. (10[2])For 10 points, what substance’s “butter” drips off in the Broma process invented by Ghirardelli? (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: chocolate [or chocolat; accept cacao, cocoa butter, cocoa beans, cocoa solids, cocoa mass, cocoa nibs, baking chocolate, chocolate coating, or compound chocolate; accept chocolatiers or chocolateries] (PGPR is polyglycerol polyricinoleate. Conching was invented by Rodolphe Lindt.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Todd MaslykMichiganChicago D6710
Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordNorth Carolina AIowa State6910
Mark TawfikRutgersJohns Hopkins6910
Ben SterlingYale BMaryland7110
Halle FriedmanNYUWUSTL A7110
Michal GerasimiukStanfordVanderbilt7510
Cooper RohColumbia AChicago C7610
Jeffrey FungHarvardDuke7610
Chris SimsNorthwesternPurdue7910
Mitchell ShaddenTexasChicago A8510
Andrew EllisKentuckyFlorida8810
Karsten RynearsonYale AGeorgia Tech8810
Amith PunyalaWUSTL BCornell B8910
Vishal KanigicherlaPennTruman State9010
Maude-Sophie LockmanOttawaMinnesota A9210
Shahar SchwartzBerkeley ACornell A94-5
Wenying WuToronto ABerkeley B9510
Jared HeWaterlooToronto B9810
Andrew WangIllinoisClaremont Colleges10410
John MarvinChicago BMinnesota B10810
Khushi UmarwadiaSouth CarolinaArizona State10810
Richard NiuCornell ABerkeley A12310