/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18970741
learn to appreciate dark chocolate. Don't approach it as a snack, approach it as a delicacy. If you aren't used to it, let small pieces melt in your mouth and appreciate their savor. Once you're used to it, you'll be able to eat big quantities without being turned off by the bitterness.
I used to hate dark chocolate until I reached my mid twenties where I gave it a serious try, now I find it hard to go back to milk/white chocolate because I feel like the cocoa taste is spoiled by the excess sugar.
also, be aware that some brands use Dutch processed cocoa for their chocolate when the percentage gets too high. For example, Lindt Dutch process their cocoa for their bars that are above 85%. This makes the chocolate less bitter, but ruins the taste a bit imo.

their mint one isnt dark enough

I only eat dark chocolate, at least 75% cocoa.

raw cocoa paste and you make a drink with it. it's a source of caffeine

>>18970758
true

Better benefits if you just use raw cacao powder not cocoa. Mix it with water or milk. I just mix mine with hot water, cinnamon and cayenne pepper.

>>18970870
it's like hot chocolate but bitter because it's for frickin adults

>>18970741
Wtf wasnt this some like viral video or marketing push for big chocolate .. I swear I literally heard the same fucking shit in a video days ago..


Shove it up your ass shekelstein, stop manipulating me

I eat one serving of dark chocolate each day because apparently it makes grey hairs return to their natural colour.

>>18970741
Dark chocolate is full of heavy metals.

>>18970741
You shouldn't eat more than 100 or 200 gr a week (don't remember which, just stay below 1 bar/ week).
My great aunt loved the 90% and over so I grew up with that too still nothing beats the 70-80 range, now I am at 85 tho (your pic).
I heard they have cadmium or other heavy metals inside them cuz of soil pollution or whatever but treat it like it was sword fish or tuna and you should be fine.
It's great.

>>18971100
rock on brother l,,l l,,l

>>18971004
>>18971091
I eat 80% dark every day and it cured my lung cancer and my credit score went up 20 points

>>18970741
>>18970753
Things to watch out for:
>severe anxiety and rapid heartbeat due to excessive caffeine (and other similar compounds) in the chocolate.
>heavy metal contamination
Only buy from sellers that consistently share third party heavy metal test results.

It doesn't mean shit if they claim to do regular testing. YOU WANT THE GOD DAMN RESULTS OF THOSE TESTS.

>>18970741
>>18970753
Dark chocolate is a scam. anything that mentions % is stupid.

I only buy 100% CACAO paste in bulk. it's not dark, it's not 80% or 90%. it IS JUST UNFUCKED WITH STRONG 100% MOTHERFUCKING CHOCOLATE.

when you buy chocolate bars from wholepaycheck you pay way too much for how little they actually give you.

just buy progressively darker chocolate, I can't imagine a normie having too much trouble with 70% or something like that.

>>18971221
The problem with that is there are no consumer reports on the heavy metal content.

>>18970741
like to melt it and mix with powdered sugar and peanut butter

>>18970741
Apparently its high in lead and cadmium so you might want to consider that

>>18970741
I making my own. It's nice. 5 gram powdered sugar, 50 gram cocoa butter and 100 grams cocoa powder. Didn't add salt this time. Vanilla doesn't improve it in my experience.

>>18970741
DONT make it sweeter
I guess american acid sugar "chocolate" is more of your liking
100% cocoa or go home

What about that recent report that dark chocolate is super filled up with cadmium and lead? eavy metal poisoning is not a mambo-jambo pseudoscientific bullshit spouted by nutritionists.

been eating the 85% varieties since mid Jan. actually really like them and the bitterness keeps me from just mindlessly putting away a load of it in one go
don't have any recipes but i get one bar similar to OP pic and break it up into a load of shards (bout 3-4 per average square) and keep them in a jar in my fridge and just take a bit or two if craving something sweet and it suffices

>>18972375
wasnt that just hershey's garbage bars and other goy slop chocolates?
it was 26 I believe listed in the report

https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/lead-and-cadmium-in-dark-chocolate-a8480295550/

>>18970741
I eat 100% cocoa lindt chocolate bars just as a dessert, once you get used to it, no other chocolate tastes good. ngl i originally started eating it for the nitric oxide and hard peepee, but now I just eat it for taste

>>18972454
oh no, an ounce of chocolate has .018 micrograms of lead!

>>18970741
>she ate two pounds of dark chocolate a week.
no she didn't, try it anon, see how much you eat and how long you do it.

>>18970741
>she ate two pounds of dark chocolate a week
a customer of a company I worked for received a 5 pound block of chocolate as a gift. it took 2 weeks for 20 people to eat it.

>>18971100
>>18971104
>>18971212
>>18971503
>>18972221
>>18972375
>>18972454
>dark chocolate
>heavy metals
Is this the latest /pol/ psyop or is the average /ck/ poster really just this retardedly autistic?

>>18972540
it's the latest consumer reports psyop
https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/lead-and-cadmium-in-dark-chocolate-a8480295550/

>>18972551
Thanks, I love big media funded by billionaire lobbyists now.

My granny is 120 years old and eats a lb of the stuff a day — keeps her young

>>18972566
just dont buy shitty goy slop chocolate and eat dark organic high percent cocao chocolate?

>>18972661
I don't buy chocolate period.

>>18972664