Chocolate panning is an artisanal method of coating chocolate used by the ancient Egyptians who discovered that small items, such as a nuts, would become uniformly coated if tumbled in a pan while a fat based liquid is drizzled onto them. The technique became known as ‘panning’ and modern methods involve a rotating "sphere" that looks similar to a small cement mixer. Warm chocolate is poured onto the pieces as they rotate in the revolving pan to give them thorough and even coverage.
