1500BC
Early Mayans knew the importance of a good cocoa foam. But it took strenuous work to achieve it.
1700s
London had 700 wildly popular drinking chocolate houses where the diarist Samuel Pepys hurried to cure his hangovers.
1800s
Stove-top ‘chocolatières’ were beautiful, but needed 25 minutes of simmering and stirring.
2018
The Velvetiser. Perfect hot chocolat in under 2.5 minutes.