/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>6620377
>he still eats factory produced "chocolate" made with "powdered milk"

remove thyself

>>6620379
But there is no milk in dark chocolate?

>>6620377
What are you talking about, dude? You know, the whole greentext 1st/3rd person narrative convention on this site is pretty retarded, and in your case a detriment to clarity.

I think you're insinuating an adult (presumably) who eats milk chocolate is a man-child. I suppose that any adult who eats candy is immature by this logic. Sounds pretty fantastic. But what do I know? I like dark chocolate, not that candy ass milk chocolate shit.

I think my point is that this thread is useless and you are a homosexual, OP. I do not mean that in the offensive homophobic way, but in the 4chan convention way: you are a fag.

>>6620382
Thinking that the higher the cocoa content the better then chocolate is a misconception. 68-74% is usually as dark as high end chocolatiers go, as to best get the flavor of the beans out.

Of course there are darker, but these are less common and inferior in terms of flavor.

>>6620377

I've had 80+ chocolate but it's way too bitter for my tastes

75-ish is more my taste. not too sweet, not too bitter.

>>6620423
Jesus just get to the point already.

>I think you're insinuating an adult (presumably) who eats milk chocolate is a man-child. I suppose that any adult who eats candy is immature by this logic.

No its like how an adult might eat something like pic related rather than eating quality cut crisps.

That was pretty much the only point in your post, you can't even call me a faggot without going about a convoluted way of doing so.

>>6620435
Meant for >>6620419 of course.

>>6620423
Dark Chocolate at 85% content isn't that rare, see pic related. Of course they would add things to it so it wouldn't be so bitter but 85% still is a thing.

I exclusively eat white and Kinder chocolate. Fuck you and your "patrician" taste OP.

>>6620482
>exclusively
and you also exclusively swallow

>>6620491
That's right I do. Chocolate isn't gum anon, I generally swallow what I put in my mouth.

>>6620440
I can buy 90% where I work.

> I'm a autist with no social skills, completely dependent on my parents and I have no ambitions but YOU'RE the manchild for liking milk chocolate

get on my level plebs

>eating food

>>6620543
You might as well just eat raw cocoa beans faggot.

>>6620543
only good for cooking purposes. Not just eating as a bar.


It's actually very nice in some currys as weird as that may sound.

Frankly, if you aren't flying to Mexico to gnaw on raw cacao beans right off the tree, you might as well just kill yourself.

>>6620603
>He doesn't eat soil shipped in from Colombia and raw cocoa beans
>He doesn't grow cocoa beans in his stomach to get the best possible chocolate experience
You aren't patrician.

>>6620440
>softened with madagascar vanilla
>implying vanilla isn't the most common flavouring agent in chocolate, aside from cocoa and sugar

>all this walmart-tier garbage
>e-peen pissing about how dark you can handle, as if chocolate was a form of punishment

Chocolate threads on /ck/ are always a good cringefest

All we need now is that guy spouting off about how the phytonutrients from raw cacao cured his morgellons

>>6620598
It actually sounds weird. And incredibly attractive. Tell me more about 99% cacao chocolate in curry ? Recipe ?

the dark chocolate fad will pass soon enough

>if my candy tastes like shit, that makes up for eating like a child!

Not how it works, kiddo.

>>6620440

confirmed for only good grocery-store tier 85% chocolate

>>6620435
The entire post was sarcasm, intended to illustrate how convoluted the original post was. I only partially succeeded. Read a book. The dark chocolate should fuel your concentration.

>>6620377
one of the nice things about chocolate is that there are so many varieties and you can eat them all its amazing wow

>>6621312
>i was only pretending to be reddit

>eating chocolate
>not smoking it like the Incas

can't believe I breathe the same air as you uncouth cretins

Best chocolate is lindt dark chocolate with a hint of sea salt !!

Could eat it all day every day

I still eat white chocolate and Hershey bars, I don't like the dark stuff it really is too bitter for me.

>>6620377
>he eats generic, aged, poorly sourced and roasted chocolate
>thinks bitter, gross flavors are good and manly and make him superior
>has never tasted single origin, fresh chocolate, that can be 70% and only have enough bitterness to balance the sugar
guy

>>6621424
I've learned that all chocolate is good chocolate, just depends the mood your in. Before I actually had any quality stuff beyond the range of Hershey's poor excuse for chocolate it's all been pretty good at least. I keep around 70% dark and white chocolate. Don't have much milk chocolate though. One extreme or another with me.

>>6620377
Pissssssst. Pissst.Anyone with half a brain knows 80%+ tastes like dirt and ass. OK for cooking, not much else. Unless OP{ is a pretentious wannabe hipster faggot. Then It's THE preferred chocauliat.

I like nibs and milk chocolate. Dark chocolate is like atheism, fucking retarded.

>>6620656
Not him but cinnamon and nutmeg are often seen as dessert spices in the west are used very commonly in Indian cooking (assuming he was talking about indian curries) and bitterness is a valued facet of flavour in small proportions and some staples like turmeric and kasuri methi are predominantly bitter.

Since sweetly aromatic and bitter is a common theme in Indian food cacao could work.

>>6621433
80%+ tastes like black coffee that was brewed with butter, it's delicious you faggot

>buy 90% dark chocolate bar
>eat so much in one day i get constipated
my butthurt makes you butthurt

>dark chocolate

>>6620377
>he still eats processed food
>he doens't eat raw cacao
Wow what a faggot I bet you like well done steak too.

>>6621514
Raw and Organic cacao nibs are good.

>>6621530
I agree 80%+ is pretty much that.

>being pretentious about candy

?

This seems like a good thread to ask

I made some chocolate syrup from scratch using coco powder. It came out nice and at the right thickness but I dont think it is chocolaty enough. Could I stir in a little more coco powder to already made chocolate syrup that has been cooled?

>>6621417
Lindt choc with sea salt is GOAT
Great choice anon

>>6621706
When you've lived in a basement all your life, candy is all you have.

>>6620377

I like milk chocolate, I also like the nice Milka milk chocolate variations like Daim or Oreo milk chocolate. They are THE best.

>600 g of white chocolate sitting in my pantry

feels real good

>>6621949
>chocolate
>white

>>6621957

Fucking racist

>>6620419
Fuck off back to leddit faggot

>>6621949
White chocolate is fucking NASTY. Fuck pure cocoa butter and fuck you.

I never eat chocolate with less than 99% cocoa . If it's 80%, that means a little salt and almost 20% sugar. Way too much sugar for me.

>only 80%

>>6622103
>cardio website

What's wrong, OP? Can't handle a bit of heart disease? Faggot

>>6620543
>dirt.png

>>6622103
> only 85%

Granted, G&B is good shit, and the 99% is an acquired taste. You eat a piece about the size of your thumbnail by basically gluing it to the roof of your mouth and letting it sit there. The flavor is strong enough it stands up to whiskey/bourbon. Intense, but not an everyday thing.

>>6620561
>doesn't eat raw cocoa beans
>calls others faggot

Shiggy Diggy Doo

>>6620561
The flavour would be quite different, and the texture would be all wrong. Chocolate bars have the components of the cocoa bean separated and then reintegrated to form a new, more palatable, product.

>>6622253
>not eating the bark from the cocoa plant

Are you even a true patrician?

>>6622255
>more palatable

I'm munching on some white chocolate now, just to spite all the cocoa butter haters ITT

>not wanting delicious healthy saturated fatty acids
>not wanting all that vitamin E and vitamin K
>not wanting to ingest pentamer and flavanoids
>not wanting to live forever

>>6620377
>STOP LIKING WHAT I DON'T LIKE
>WHAT YOU LIKE IS FOR CHILDREN
>I SIT AT THE BIG KIDS TABLE AND WE DO IT LIKE THIS
>REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I hate this meme.

>>6622315
>not wanting the magnesium
>not wanting the flavanol antioxidants

Sorry, but the key to good health is to have a balanced diet, and that means including cocoa solids as well as cocoa butter.

So is regular milk chocolate just 50% then? Less? More?

>>6622609
Approximately 25%, give or take.

>>6622624
Wow, I wouldn't have thought it was that low

>Apparently We've Been Doing Chocolate Wrong The Whole Time - Click to [WATCH] FOODBEAST.com

>>6622646
US standards require a minimum of greater than or equal to 10% chocolate liquor and greater than or equal to 12% milk solids to qualify as milk chocolate.

>>6622692
Well that explains why I've heard that your cheap chocolate can be really waxy and terrible

>>6622707
No, cheap chocolate can be waxy and terrible because most of it isn't chocolate, it's confectioner's coating.

>>6622715
That's what I meant, with a minimum of only 10% and 12% that's a lot of space to put in whatever cheap filler the company wants to

Fuck you OP I chew on literal cacao NIBS.

Get on my fucking level pleb

>>6622825
Maybe the ones I got were just rubbish quality, but I tried them once and they were very bland. I'll have to try them again one day.

I dont even consume food or beverage

I synthesize pure nitrogen

>>6620419
>he goes on 4chan but makes posts like these

shiggy diggy

>>6620543
>l-l-look at how hardcore and mature I am g-guys!
>it's 99 percent!

Guess how I can tell you drink whiksey

>>6622914
I guess if you don't like bitter foods, you become bitter yourself.

>>6621514
>I try so hard to be contrarian that I now make fun of atheism on my favorite chinese cartoon image board beause of the fedora meme

>>6621949
>being fat

Chocolate is candy, and candy is supposed to be sweet and good. I'll eat all the delicious milk chocolate I want, fuck your "lol its gotta be good for you" way.

I prefer white chocolate because it has 0% cocoa

>>6622921
I do like bitter foods, but eating 99% cocoa chocolate is a behaviour that can only be motivated by severe autism. And whiskey is for smokers who lack functioning taste buds.

I like all chocolate except that bitter cacao goy chocolate.

>>6620377
>keeping a chocolate around that's more toxic to my dog

nah

Patrician's choice: 60-75%
Enjoyable tier: 40-59%
Shit tier: <40%
Reddit tier: >75%
Not chocolate tier: white chocolate

>>6622926
Sorry to disappoint, I'm 105 lb soaking wet.

'scuse me while I go munch on some more white chocolate

>he doesn't eat high cc chocolate with fruit
Only masquerading plebs eat 85% or above plain, you eat it with fruit or flavoring to make it taste good

>>6624606
>unironically eating something consisting entirely of 2 parts sugar to 1 part fat
>105 lbs

Not for long, buddy.

>>6622941
Having a badly trained dog. I bet it's a lab.

>>6624632
>implying I don't maintain a healthy diet and enjoy sweets occasionally

>>6621589
Why do people always post that fat fuck when you point our their bad taste?

>>6624689
>I'm too mature to insinuate that a person that has different opinions than me is a fat neckbeard

>>6624696
I didn't say that you fat neckbeard.

>>6624707
He probably is.

>>6620377
They're both good.

I think the real children here are those arguing about what type of chocolate they eat. The darkness of your chocolate probably represents how much light you get in your basements anyway.

>>6624689
Because taste is very subjective, and he's making fun of you for having nothing better to do than argue about things that are very difficult to prove one way or the other.

>ur burger a shit
>ur music a shit
>ur waifu a shit

>>6626051
I hate this bullshit snowflake crap, some opinions are better than others. Don't just rely on 'its just my taste :P' bullshit, some taste is shit and some taste isn't.

>>6626054
You did not provide any evidence, or even a logical justification for milk chocolate being bad, other than calling it "baby" which leads me to believe you're just funposting.

You can't objectively claim without basis that one opinion is better than another. If I liked to eat dirt, you could make the argument that I have bad taste because it lacks nutritional value and deviates from what most people would consider actual food.

>>6626054
False

>>6622242
how could it be that bad? I've eaten the 90% bar, it's pretty easy to put down. The experience is much the same as any other dark chocolate. I'd eat one again if it was put in front of me.

White chocolate is the best though.

That's it. I'm sick of all this "80% Cocoa Dark Chocolate" bullshit that's going on in /ck/ right now. Milk chocolate deserve much better than that. Much, much better than that.

I should know what I'm talking about. I myself commissioned genuine milk chocolate in Brussels for 2 euro (that's about $2.23) and have been practicing with it for almost 2 years now. I can even cut bars of solid milk chocolate with a butter knife.

Belgian smiths spend years working on a single bar of milk chocolate and fold it up to a million times to produce the finest confections known to mankind.

Milk chocolate is thrice as complex as dark chocolate and thrice as satisfying for that matter too. Any notes that may be in dark chocolate those notes can come through better in milk chocolate. I'm pretty sure milk chocolate could easily satisfy a gourmand with a simple half-ounce serving.

Ever wonder why French cuisine never bothered conquering Belgium? That's right, French chefs were too scared to compete the disciplined chocolatiers and their milk chocolate. Even in World War II, American soldiers targeted the men with the milk chocolate first because their killing power was feared and respected.

So what am I saying? Milk chocolate is simply the best food that the world has ever seen.

>>6627083
How high are you?

This is literally the best tasting chocolate. The only people who think otherwise are ones who haven't tried it.

>>6627083
>Belgian smiths spend years working on a single bar of milk chocolate and fold it up to a million times to produce the finest confections known to mankind.
>Even in World War II, American soldiers targeted the men with the milk chocolate first because their killing power was feared and respected.
excellent

If milk and dark chocolate are so great, then why are these the best flavor pb cups?

>>6627132
Nigger please

>>6627132
>>6627237
So my ex-gf said that a lot of European chocolates and cheese are way better than their American equivalents. She said they taste like rubber in comparison. Is this true? Are the processes different? Are they aged or something?

>>6627083

Delicious

>>6627196
Doesn't white chocolate have a shitton of sugar though?

> not cooking 99.9999% purity dark chocolate
> not having the blue color of 99.9999% pure chocolate come out in your cook

sure is a bunch of minimum wage rookies in this thread

pic very related - what 99.9999% pure dark chocolate looks like (you've probably never had it like this)

>>6628422
So does most dark chocolate you buy. There isn't much difference - compare the labels. Unless you're buying cocao nibs or 99% dark, you're still consuming a fair amount of sugar.

>>6627083
>Belgian smiths spend years working on a single bar of milk chocolate and fold it up to a million times
kek you are:
a) confusing Belgians for Japanese and;
b) confusing chocolate for katanas and;
c) are higher right now than I am drunk

>>6622239
Can confirm. I need about 2 glasses of water to down a piece. As it melts in your mouth it takes on the consistency and viscosity of industrial grade sludge minus the water.
Pretty tasty tho.

>>6628276
>aged chocolate
Yeah, in oak barrels soaked with infant tears.

>>6622103
I like how Aldi and Lidi are packaging their chocolate like it's some fancy brand

>>6628615
I just checked and you're right. Weird. White always tastes so much sweeter to me. Maybe it's the lack of bitter.

>>6628801
You had to check to verify this?

Christ, this board sometimes.

>>6628812
Why would I trust anyone on 4chan?

>>6628813
Even worse that you'd have to get this information from a random post on 4chan, or that it's the only possible alternative to common sense in your mind.

I need to remind myself that I'm surrounded by teenagers on this board, I'd spend less time here for sure.

>>6628817
Good, this board could do with a few less rude individuals.

Why all the hate for dark chocolate?

It's not necessarily every tipper's euphoric penance to endure for their un-god.
I like 95% in small quantities out of the freezer.
I also like most milk chocolates. Hershey's burns my mouth, maybe too sweet. Dairy Milk nails flavor and mouth feel for me.
White has its places in baking.

Not everybody likes it. That's fine. Licorice is also fine.
Damn fine, that licorice.
Mmm

>>6628787
Lidl basic chocolate is pretty great mang

> menstruation is real
> the craving it burns
> eats raw coacoa powder straight from the can
> cries
chocolate is chocolate

>>6620377

go back to /pol/ nazi skum

>>6621514
*tips bible*

>>6629809
>Hershey's burns my mouth, maybe too sweet.
yep, that's what it is. i noticed this too, and so have some other people once i mentioned it to them.

Liking sweet food like chocolate just means that your pallet is immature and uncultured. You need good taste to appreciate the more subtle flavors.

>>6631472
>pallet

>>6628276
I can confirm that american cheese and chocolate have a wierd rubbery/waxy consistency to them and bland flavor compared to what I'm used to here in scandinavia.

GOAT

>>6624677
impossible

>>6631492
Kraft is not "American cheese", I don't know how many times this needs to be said

>>6620377
babies don't produce milk.

>>6631492
>>6632305

And hershey isn't American chocolate, just like bud isn't American beer

not solely anyways, they are the cheapest of the cheap

A step above it is ghiradelli (Which is delicious)

a step above that are companies like manoa

and a step above that are local chocolatiers, depending on which state you live in

>>6632305
>>6632337
>Kraft is not "American cheese"
>And hershey isn't American chocolate
>just like bud isn't American beer

i love how americans always lie to themselves about these things.

>>6632362

You're confusing "X is not" for "X is not a"

To say "Hershey isn't American chocolate" means that Hershey isn't all American chocolate is.

Grammar eurofriend.

It's always adorable when people try to pretend that Europe is composed of nothing but artisinal craftsmen and has no cheaply made junk food.

>>6631492
What is so different?

>>6632443
gr8 b8 m8

>>6632458
?
I'm asking about the process.
Is Swiss cheese and choco aged or something?
Does American chocolate have far too many preservatives?
Why is American cheese and choco so much worse in the eyes of all Europeans I've met irl and online?

>>6632470
Europeans just like to pretend that American chocolate begins and ends with Hershey's, and then compare it to the finest chocolate they have there.

>>6621530
You know what tastes even MORE like black coffee brewed with butter? Coffee bars. If you haven't tried these, find them. They're amazing.

>>6632470
Alright in case you're not trolling: the biggest american chocolate companies use PGPR and vegetable oil, and very little to no cocoa butter. It's shit.

MARS came out and said they would not use vegetable oil i place of cocoa butter, and nestle still uses cocoa butter but the cocoa content is less and sugar is more.

>>6620493

you swallow the cocks too?

>>6632540

Oh, I don't buy American chocolate from those companies so I wouldn't know.

>>6622935

Cool opinions breh

>>6632337
>>6632362
Kraft literally isn't cheese by definition, are you completely retarded?

>>6632540
Wtf is PGPR?
So, my homemade chocolate is much better than anything I can buy in stores as long as my ingredients are good?
Also, what about cheese, what is so about about American cheese?(No not the craft singles, I mean all cheese made in America)

>>6632795
PGPR (polyglycerol polyricinoleate) is an emulsifier that blends the chocolate and veggie oil together, and it caused liver problems in rats in high doses. It's used in cheap waxy feeling chocolate.

Cheese in America is fine. Like most food in murica, anything made by a huge corporation (kraft, velveeta) is basically fake cheese. We have plenty of farms and an endless array of regional and national cheeses to pick from at any super market.

>>6632597

Kraft is a brand, so no, of course it's not cheese, they make cheese and they make cheese like product among other things.

You are thinking of velveeta

>>6632855
*kraft singles

There, did I quell your autism fit?

>>6628621
Congratulations anon, that's the joke.

>>6632872

Kraft singles are cheese, once again you may be thinking of kraft velveeta singles.

>>6633050
>kraft singles are "cheese"

>>6633054

Ah, you're right.

Oh well

>>6632475
They aren't pretending. I've been to enough Euro countries to say that they have FAR higher standards for food.

>>6620377
>Adults eating candy
Grow up son.

>>6620642
>madagascar vanilla
Tastes exactly like normal vanilla

>>6620419
I bet you wear your greasy hair in a ponytail

>>6633800
There is vanilla not from Madagascar?

>>6633803
Are you implying that his greasy hair would be better to fly free rather than to be confined to a pony tail? GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER FAGGOT.

>>6632470

It's like everyone is completely oblivious to the fact that products are CATERED and adjusted to country-taste. Nestea iced tea in Turkey is completely different in taste than Nestea tea in the UK.