The great challenge of the world’s best master chocolatier in the Titan Desert

Lluc Crusellaswho at the age of 26 won the ‘World Chocolate Masters’ 2022the championship that selects the best master chocolatier in the world every two years, will be this year one of the main characters of Titan Desert in Morocco. the cyclist of Santa Eulalia de Riuprimerwho as a young man had to choose between being a cyclist or looking for another professional opportunity, found in the kitchen and in the pastry shop the necessary creativity and a good professional opportunity.

At first glance, the calories that rule the richest chocolate and the effort required by a sport as sacrificed as cycling, more so in a context as hostile as in desert of moroccos, they may seem incompatible, that they should be avoided, as pastry chef Crusellas clarified: “And why are they incompatible? If there is a balance it is positive”.

In three months he will face his first Titan, a test that will take him to the limit, but where he will fulfill his dreams as a child, when he thought he could become a professional cyclist, until the passing of years he realized. that to earn he has to do more than pedal. “I’ve always been riding a bike, ever since I was little. First on a mountain bike and then on the road, but one day I realized that I couldn’t live by cycling and that’s when the chocolatier-pastry side started to attract my attention”, Lluc told MD.

He learned the secrets of pastry. He fell into the chocolate nets and revealed himself to ‘World Chocolate Masters’ after two years of work. Now he has only Titan Desert on his mind, which starts on April 30. “I remember a performance at the Vic de la Titan and from that day I thought I wanted to go. In addition, the opportunity arose to join the team KH7 and Melcior Mauriand I told myself to go ahead and live the experience”, he assured under the gaze of his physical trainer Jaume Palau.

He makes sure that he tries to follow his training plan carefully. “Neither the kilometers nor the sand scares me, but it feels bad to leave it because of a fall or a mechanical problem.”

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And it couldn’t be any other way for a master chocolatier who in 2022 traveled to Paris for chocolate champions and that he won thanks to a giant elephant with a height of three meters in which he used 170 kilos of cocoa.