Behind the Scenes at Coco-Bar Chocolate Factory in Toms River – with Yossi Zweig!

Yossi Zweig, shalom aleichem. How are you, guys? I'm here in Toms River in a beautiful chocolate factory with Yossi Zweig. >> Do you believe in Ephraim? >> No, I do not believe Toms River has a factory like this. >> premier Belgian chocolate, power of CRC under his saughtus. I said Ephraim's status has got to know about this. Beautiful packaging, amazing flavors. We're here in the factory. We're going to show you how it's made. cocoa-bar.com is the website. Coming to store near you. Let's see how some of this most amazing delicious chocolate is made. Ephraim, I know you're going to say, "Yossi, what's so good? I've seen chocolate. I've seen brittle. I've seen all the chocolate-covered Oreos. What is different about Cocoa Bar?" They are constantly innovative. You got to see this. This is the hottest thing. The packaging is amazing. This is called Cocoa Springs. And you're going to say, "Yossi, what is that?" >> Cocoa Spring? >> Cocoa Prings. Do you have any idea what the hottest thing is online? Look at this container over here. People are trying to make chocolate-covered Pringles. They take a Pringle jar and they pour in melted chocolate and they take them out. This is the hottest item. This is a chocolate-covered Cocoa Bar Pringle. It's called Cocoa Prings. >> Let me see how it looks inside. >> They're making them fresh in house. The packaging is insanely beautiful. Chocolate-covered potato crisps. I mean, I've never seen anything like this. Nobody else has this. So, don't tell me they have everything. They're looking at them right now. It's a very delicate process cuz as you know, Pringles break very easily. So, they load three into machine at a time. The chocolate pours over them. You see the conveyor belt on this side is shaking. We don't want any Pringle to have too much chocolate, right? You need to shake off that excess. You really don't want it to be really heavily. They get stuck. So, as you see, we have tongs here. This is amazing, no? Have you ever seen a chocolate-covered Pringle in a package like this? This is the kind of product >> I bought some of the heimish hashgacha saughtus. >> It's saughtus. And we have, of course, the CRC. Cocoa Prings, the most innovating product. That's how we're started up this video to show you not just the most amazing delicious power of a Belgian chocolate, but so innovative products as well. People say, "Yossi, you're a foodie. You have to try stuff. We love seeing you eat on camera." This just came off a few minutes ago. Let's see if it has a crisp. You know, they say that the best mixture when you have sweet things is a little sweet, a little salty. Let's try one out. Wow. >> Interesting. >> Surely you got it. >> I'm going to take one. >> I'll taste it soon. >> Delicious. Chocolate, sweet, salty. Thin. You can see there's not an overabundance of chocolate. Coming soon. They come in this packaging. And you want to know where you can get it? You can put in a little gift bag like this. Coming soon. You saw it here in the Prime status first. Guys, Coco Bar. Now, Ephraim, we'll move on to the next product, one of the most delicious peanut butter cups ever. I made a brocha already. I just want to show you how runny it is. >> Oh, nice. >> behind me is making them right now. So, we can see how we do that. Let's go check it out. It all starts with one of the most richest Belgian chocolates. We have one of our chefs here filling up a bucket. We'll take it over to the machine where we have our peanut butter mixture and we'll mix it together and show you how it's made. Okay, Ephraim, as you can see, we have our rich Belgian chocolate and our rich peanut butter mixture going into the one-shot machine together. It's going to be loaded straight into the molds and that's the next step. Next step is as follows. You can't see it cuz it's so quickly. This one-shot machine is squirting in both chocolate and peanut butter. There, do you see the light peanut butter? Okay. So, it's shooting a small little bit of chocolate, then peanut butter, then chocolate together. That's what keeps it so melty in the middle. >> This is so cool. Let me see it one more time. So, this is chocolate and inside this peanut butter? >> That's right. The chocolate gets the outside, then the middle peanut butter, then chocolate on top. In other places, you might see they put chocolate and they put in the fridge and then they put in peanut butter. But, that's how everything gets hard. This This it stays fresh and melty in the middle. >> Why is it shaking? >> This machine's shaking, it's getting rid of all the air bubbles. The more you shake it, the more the liquid's going to fill up and all the air is going to come to the top. After we're doing the one shot machine, we shake them down. They sit here to cool. Look how nice this is a frame. You can see a drop of the peanut butter coming out after they're shaken. And then we move on to popping them out and packaging. So next we take them from the cooling. We put them down here as you see. They are professionally knocking on them to get all the cake sticking from We don't want the chocolate to stick to it. We don't want to touch it. Everyone's wearing gloves. Bang on it, knock them out and as you see, they goes directly onto the wax paper. >> is a different flavor. This is a different >> This is mint, happens to be. That's why it has a leaf. Delicious flavor right here. I usually don't do this, but we'll do it on the line. Ooh. Really good. Love mint. It'll make your breath smell amazing. Beautiful. Wow. >> Some major preparation here. >> Fry'em, this is one of my favorite. This flavor is called salted caramel. Look at that. Delicious. And if I can just tell you that mint flavor is a great dessert flavor. It is The mint hits you later on. It's not green, it's not white, it's chocolate, but that flavor would gives you a big pack at the end. Fry'em, everybody knows Dubai is the most popular thing in the world right now. Well, we got that over here. Here we have our rock at Taifi. This is not what goes in the chocolate. They toast them and add flavoring and then we take our beautiful pistachio mixture. So anything Dubai is being made here fresh in house like this. You're watching the mixture. They have a wide array of products from chocolates to chocolate [snorts] covered Oreos and of course peanut butter locks. Fry'em, this is one of their most popular items. Everybody knows Dubai is really hot right now. These are the Dubai chocolate Oreos. I just want to show you this is not just covered in green. Look at that Dubai chocolate inside. This is the mixture you just saw them make next door. Just came out of the chocolate machine getting covered. Delicious. You got to see how the machine works. If I look at that beautiful Belgian chocolate milk melting and dripping down onto those fresh Oreos. If you go to the other side of the machine, you'll see we already started topping them off with that amazing Dubai drizzle. Everything you can see is made fresh in-house. You are getting the top line product here. Here we are at the other end of the conveyor belt. As you see, slowly they come out. They're all completely dry and ready for packaging. >> Look at how the packaging is. Five Oreo cookies. >> If I am this is another product we were talking about. This is called the slabs. We have two flavors here. We have crispy that has rice crispies in it, which I had and it's delicious. And this is called a marshmallow blast. So, you have chocolate, looks like some kind of nuts, and marshmallows topped with even more white chocolate. And here, they're going to create a slab. They have the frame laid out here on wax paper. This makes sure it doesn't stick. This looks like they're making crispy right now. You see the rice crispies going in the white chocolate, the dark chocolate. And it starts off like this, ends up looking like this. Each one comes with an individual cocoa bar hammer. And the bags kids have fun. Adults can have fun. It doesn't have to be kids. You smash it, you break it, you hand it out, and you enjoy some delicious chocolate. As you see, they just added the dark chocolate to the white chocolate. Everything is swirling and mixing together. You got to do this really quickly cuz you don't want the rice crispies to get soggy. You still want them to maintain that crunch. >> issue with this part. This is this looks good. >> Every little thing here is part of CRC Hisachdus Kashes. It amazes me. My kids were trying this bark yesterday. They could not get over it. They looked at me and said, "Tav, this parve?" I said, "It is parve. It is delicious." You know, sometimes you get those ice creams when you buy a simcha and you're like, "Oh my gosh, this tastes parve. I don't want I don't want it. I want milk eggs." But, this actually tastes as good as it looks. The most expensive, luxurious Belgian chocolate, you are getting it made here fresh in Cocoa Bar. Now that you've seen how the chocolate's made, I want to show you the most impressive packaging. This is a 24 box. So, you get four flavors divided by 24. You have the Cocoa Bar uh logo over here. Look at this. Each one comes with a manual legend which flavors. This looks like mint This looks like um caramel. And we have peanut butter and two other flavors. You can I think change the flavors you want. But, look at the messaging. You ever go looking for a card for a simcha? And we have this one that says, "Thank you." This one says, "Good Shabbos." This one says, "Thinking of you." And this one says, "Get well." We're working on more as you see. This is the packaging that each box Each 24 pack comes with >> Ooh, I never saw this. >> See, the box comes into it. It's really nice. If you are looking to be remembered as a great gift gifter, this is what you want. This is the 16-piece box. This is completely assorted. So, these are all the 15 flavors that they have. The other box is four different flavors. Now, they have these special boxes that are available for purchase on the website. I got to show them to you. >> Ooh. >> is the Peanut Chew Dubai logo. And of course, you have the chocolate-covered Oreos and your Dubai slab. Each one comes in a unique hammer. You get to smash it. And they include in each one these little bags. You get to put chocolate into them and hand them out. So, it's not messy in your hands. This is another box. The most professional Shabbos box. You can get everything here separately. You can get this box separately, this box separately, this box, or you get it as a box. You get your peanut butter, your peanut butter cups, you get your Oreos, you get your chocolate pretzels, and you get four flavors with a slab in the bottom of slab of chocolate. Okay, this is the most amazing gift that you can get. This is the third box. This is the slab box. You have four different flavors. Look at this. Each one is packed individually. Strawberry. This has rice crispy in it. I've tried this is one of the most amazing one. This looks like dark chocolate. And then of course you got this one with nuts on it. Each one comes with a hammer and the bags. It is amazingly fun smashing it open. >> Prime, you want to smash >> one open? >> Yes, let's do it. >> We smash one open. I got an open one right over here. Okay. We took the loose site cover off. Each one comes in a loose site box. Now what you do is That's it. You take a bag. You open it up. Take a piece of chocolate. Put in the bag. This Prime special for you. Touched by me. Okay. [laughter] Amazing slab here at Coco Bar. Last box. This is the most intriguing box. It just came out perfect in time for summer. This is the s'mores box. Look Prime, look at this. >> Ooh. >> Everything you want in one box. You got your chocolate. You got your marshmallow. You got your graham crackers. You got your skewers. You have the metal skewer to put it over the fire. It comes with a heater and a match. Now when they ship it, they will not include the match obviously cuz that's not legal. But over here you have the dipping sauce. You have the crunch topper. Come on. If you saw this somewhere and you're going away for the summer, you want to make something unique on your vacation. You could pack this in the car. You take s'mores with you. Available from Coco Bar. Prime, you're going to ask me where can you get all this amazing stuff? coco-bar.com. Coming to a store near you. I believe in their most stores in upstate New York. They're in Lakewood. If you want retail questions, coco-bar. Everything you see here can be sold separately or as a package. Naturally if you're getting a box >> What's the website again? >> coco-bar.com. Now if you want to purchase these amazing boxes in store, they're available in a few stores both upstate and everywhere. Upstate you have Mountain Food, you have Lemonade, Buy Rite, Scops, and of course Green Fresh. Imagine, Ephraim, if you didn't have to put a thing of chocolate in your car and schlep for 3 hours and it's going to melt, you can go directly to the store upstate. In Brooklyn, they're in Needles, they're in Breadberry, and they're in Sardo. Of course, coco-bar. You can get everything there. So, these are in the store. The 16-pack, the 24-pack are in the store. The boxes you got to order from the website. In Lakewood, you can find them in Evergreen. If you want to call them, you have questions, you want to sell retail, the number to call is 732-631-6000. That is for phone calls. Now, everybody's on WhatsApp nowadays. You're watching this on Ephraim Status. How do you contact them via WhatsApp? Number is 848-261-1222. Again, coco-bar.com. And when you call them, remember to say you saw it on Ephraim Status. >> Any else is what?