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Anonymous Sun Sep 4 19:44:36 2022 No.18318232 [Reply] [Original]

What are some top tier chocolate brands and products?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 4 19:56:58 2022 No.18318287 >>18318232 chocolove

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 4 19:58:00 2022 No.18318294 >>18318232 personally I'm just gonna start buying raw cocoa powder

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 4 20:04:12 2022 No.18318316 File: 39 KB, 800x800, 332323-rum-and-raisin-dark-chocolate-bar-200g.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18318232 This is currently my favourite chocolate thing.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 4 20:11:26 2022 No.18318334 File: 907 KB, 2000x1500, 735675346756.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Hard to top Zotter. Not only is their chocolate top quality but they also have some very creative and unusual flavor combinations that I really appreciate.

Anonymous Sun Sep 4 20:14:45 2022 No.18318349
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>>18318232
https://www.seriouseats.com/2018/05/the-best-milk-chocolate-for-baking-that-wont-break-the-bank.html#comments-433421
https://www.seriouseats.com/2018/04/6-supermarket-chocolate-bars-for-better-baking.html
https://www.seriouseats.com/2018/05/5-natural-cocoa-powders-that-put-the-supermarket-stuff-to-shame.html#comments-432935
The workhorse of the chocolate world is Barry Callebaut (great texture, flavor, and $/oz value), and if you are a rich bitch and wanna splurge Valhrona.

As far as cocoa powder is concerned brand matters a lot less because there are less steps in the finishing process and you're instead buying based whether your recipes are constructed for dutch processed or natural cocoa, and importantly make sure they are high-fat powders (1 gram of fat or more (instead of .5 grams such as with Hershey's) per tablespoon (5 to 6 gram) serving in the nutrition facts.
https://handletheheat.com/the-most-important-thing-cocoa-powder/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=126&v=W-59aMuG92Q
I use Cacao Barry Cocoa Powder Extra Brute recommended by Stella Parks on Serious Eats and it's awesome.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 4 20:47:09 2022 No.18318463 File: 402 KB, 508x982, opt.1250w.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] For me it's the humble Aldi chocolate

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 00:11:52 2022 No.18319131 >>18318232 Callebaut

Anonymous Mon Sep 5 00:18:40 2022 No.18319153

love these threads. every single fucking year, for the last 5 years i've seen this thread once or twice a year and add your recommendations to my bookmarks then watch that bookmark fade away as my browser files crash or whatever and i have to switch over to Opera for the next 6months or so.

please recommend any more you can? Zotter was recommended I think two years ago, maybe last.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 00:42:09 2022 No.18319222 >>18318232 cadbury

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 02:05:05 2022 No.18319510 >>18319222 nice b8

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 02:07:51 2022 No.18319520 >>18318232 I did a taste test; Frey beats Lindt

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 02:16:00 2022 No.18319558 >>18319222 i'll acknowledge your trips, but that's it

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 02:18:11 2022 No.18319561 Venchi chocolate. Don’t like the pink chocolate. I tried some trendy brand of pink chocolate recently and did not like it. Love a good toffee

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 02:42:36 2022 No.18319655 File: 313 KB, 1280x1280, g&b_chco.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Green and Black is my personal favorite

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 02:52:25 2022 No.18319693 >>18318334 >seaweed fuck off with this trendy hipster bullshit

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 03:01:53 2022 No.18319728 >>18318334 Looks good but it seems they cost $8.50 a bar (+shipping lol) so I'd rather just make my own at that point. >>18319655 These are my fav too for baking but I guess it's probably time to move up into the 2 pound bags

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 03:16:09 2022 No.18319760 >>18319655 your sister got her pussy green and blacked last night

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 03:55:33 2022 No.18319853 >>18319693 You don't seaweed your chocolate bro?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 10:01:49 2022 No.18320714 File: 606 KB, 2400x2400, AA74EE99-41A6-4678-A0BE-A8D940B03992.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18318232 The one and only. Many haters, few imitators, never copied. always the best.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 10:11:35 2022 No.18320728 I buy cocoa powder (as little processed as possible) and make myself a drink. Tastes good.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 11:27:47 2022 No.18320888 royal mints

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 11:39:14 2022 No.18320905 >>18320714 Americans are subhuman

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 11:53:01 2022 No.18320930 File: 163 KB, 1145x730, ezgif-4-75934770da.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] For me, it's Darrell Lea or Hebert

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 13:46:07 2022 No.18321144 >>18320714 it tastes like cheese

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 13:58:28 2022 No.18321176 >>18318232 For me, it's Lindt excellence 85%

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 17:47:52 2022 No.18321799 >>18320714 literally not even chocolate

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 17:52:52 2022 No.18321813 >>18321176 same

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 18:04:33 2022 No.18321849 Royce Nama Choco Chuao (particularly the honeycomb one)

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 22:15:12 2022 No.18322599 File: 120 KB, 620x1500, 71QCkblMjVL._SL1500_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] you can taste God

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 6 07:44:14 2022 No.18324275 >>18318232 Amul Twilight Tryst

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 6 08:01:23 2022 No.18324316 File: 233 KB, 775x1600, DSC_7804.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] My favourite one

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 6 08:05:33 2022 No.18324326 File: 331 KB, 1242x1519, proxy-image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Trader Joe's chocolate is so cheap and tasty. This is one of my current favorites.

Anonymous Tue Sep 6 10:52:15 2022 No.18324609

https://somacacao.com.au/

The best cocoa product available. You get the cardiovascular high from it. It's fucking incredible. You get the drug effect like the Aztecs did. Heat in a pot with good quality oat milk, cinnamon, cardoman, nutmeg, vanilla, coconut sugar. It is unreal

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 6 10:58:42 2022 No.18324617 >>18320714 Hershey's Special dark is ok; Hershey's milk chocolate is mediocre.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 6 11:02:35 2022 No.18324621 File: 80 KB, 749x499, 1662462129487.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] For me, it's Absolute Black(ed).

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 6 11:20:33 2022 No.18324642 >>18324617 All Hersheys is trash, eat your own vomit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 6 18:32:21 2022 No.18325541 File: 86 KB, 353x715, vivani.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] How cocoa beans taste compared to 100% chocolate?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 6 19:28:05 2022 No.18325699 >>18324621 >100% it's not even chocolate at that point, just a brick of cocoa

Anonymous Tue Sep 6 23:39:16 2022 No.18326512

>>18319153
Askinosie chocolate. Get you some anon. Only place I know of that you can get a 33% cocoa butter single origin white chocolate (and their milk and dark chocolate are incredible as well).

I've given their sampler sets as gifts to multiple people and they're always well received.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 6 23:44:25 2022 No.18326532 File: 190 KB, 1270x1500, 81ZB9M6O6jL._SL1500_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18318232 These are like crack

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 00:08:30 2022 No.18326591 File: 109 KB, 800x533, IMG_0418_800x.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18318232 Can never go wrong with Lindt. The Sea Salt Dark Chocolate is my personal favourite.

Anonymous Wed Sep 7 15:16:15 2022 No.18328638
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Support your local businesses
Side note, living within driving distance of a chocolate factory is pretty kino, since they will always have a stock of reject chocolates(always for aesthetic reasons) on sale for a quarter of the normal price, making sourcing affordable chocolate for cooking a piece of cake

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 15:50:58 2022 No.18328724 File: 249 KB, 1053x767, 6-repen-incl-pecan-kokos_21832552176_o.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] These are pretty great. Found at World Market

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 15:57:19 2022 No.18328736 >>18328724 had one a few years ago, i liked it

Anonymous Wed Sep 7 15:57:48 2022 No.18328737

Cocoa Powder : Van Houten
The Dutch have had that shit on lock since African colonial era. They got the best farms out there. You want good pure cocoa product, you look for dutch origin.

Now you want some consumer product like a chocolate bar, etc. It's all up to personal taste. Cocoa content, sugar, content, other ingredients and concentration levels.
But for the pure product of cocoa powder...You know where to look.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 15:57:50 2022 No.18328738 >>18328638 post pics of the deformed chocolate

Anonymous Wed Sep 7 16:04:25 2022 No.18328752
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>>18328738
Don't have any at the moment, but its usually stuff like dragees that were underfilled in the mould, so they don't come out round or egg shaped, or bars that broke into pieces in the assembly etc

Here's an example pic from someone else on facebook. Note the plain labeling and lack of fancy packaging

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 16:09:35 2022 No.18328766 File: 362 KB, 1024x1365, Kwasi_Kwarteng.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The only chocolate for me is BBC!

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 16:29:27 2022 No.18328819 ritter sport

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 16:30:39 2022 No.18328822 File: 70 KB, 650x428, ParmesanCheese-471343790-770x533-1-650x428[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18324642 based retard

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 00:04:03 2022 No.18330080 File: 94 KB, 320x320, e02.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18320714 actual slop try eating pure sugar instead i heard it's better and healthier

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 01:04:06 2022 No.18330258 >>18320714 Has a very distinct taste out of any chocolate bar, I’ll give it that

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 12:12:24 2022 No.18331433 >>18318463 I'ma be real with you chief, the aldi chocolate taste pretty awful. Their white chocolate is pretty good though for some reason.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 12:13:36 2022 No.18331437 File: 23 KB, 489x423, 256.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw Darrell Lea used to be the tits and in 2022 everyone has forgotten

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 12:15:14 2022 No.18331441 File: 588 KB, 2949x1664, Seashells-production-line-small.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] For me it's these lil niggas

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 13:45:08 2022 No.18331641 >>18318232 GET RUBY CHOCOLATE! It is the best >>18331441 these are not bad too.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 21:28:50 2022 No.18332768 >>18324621 >100% cocoa >with almonds pick one

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 00:04:13 2022 No.18333177 >>18331433 Choceur is mediocre but Moser Roth is excellent. Both are produced by Storck.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 00:15:53 2022 No.18333220 File: 33 KB, 321x489, 51lerYTF4AS._AC_SY580_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] i work down the road from the lindt factory i love these motherfuckers like you wouldn't believe

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