What's your favorite type of chocolate?

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The discussion revolves around preferences for different types of chocolate, with a strong emphasis on dark chocolate as the favorite among many participants. Dark chocolate is praised for its health benefits, particularly its positive effects on mental health, with some participants favoring higher cocoa percentages (70% and above) for their rich flavors. Milk chocolate is acknowledged for its creaminess and smoothness, but is often dismissed as inferior to dark chocolate. White chocolate is generally criticized, with many noting it isn't true chocolate due to its lack of cocoa solids and is often considered less healthy. Participants share personal anecdotes about chocolate experiences, including recipes and nostalgic memories associated with chocolate treats. The conversation highlights varying taste preferences, with some expressing a fondness for dark chocolate mixed with ingredients like nuts or fruits, while others enjoy the sweetness of milk chocolate or even the unique texture of certain white chocolate products.

What's your favorite type of chocolate?

  • Dark Chocolate

    Votes: 22 61.1%

  • Milk Chocolate

    Votes: 8 22.2%

  • White Chocolate

    Votes: 6 16.7%
  • Total voters
    36
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So guys? What's your favorite type of chocolate?

Dark Chocolate?
Milk Chocolate?
White Chocolate?

Mine is probably dark chocolate?
 
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Has to be dark, no wimpy milk chocolate for me. White chocolate isn't actually chocolate.
 
I LOVE the lower % dark chocolate but nothing beats the smoothness of milk chocolate.
 
love dark and it's good for you! I got two bars of 85% in my fridge now :)
 
Good for you? How?
 
Dark is good as long as it isn't really bitter (the cheap dark chocolates are bad for this), although as darth says the creaminess of milk is hard to beat for general snacking
 
Darth Frodo said:
Good for you? How?
It's mental health food. I voted for white chocolate.
 
Dark, all the way!
 
Darth Frodo said:
Good for you? How?

http://www.allchocolate.com/health/basics/
 
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  • #10
Dark chocolate leaves a really good taste
 
  • #11
milk chocolate, and

Evo said:
White chocolate isn't actually chocolate.

this
 
  • #12
Darth Frodo said:
I LOVE the lower % dark chocolate but nothing beats the smoothness of milk chocolate.

Me too :!).
 
  • #13
Dark with raisins, not a choice in the poll.
 
  • #14
The darker the better.
 
  • #15
Evo said:
Has to be dark, no wimpy milk chocolate for me. White chocolate isn't actually chocolate.

ewwww dark chocolate! Milk chocolate all the way =D
 
  • #16
Dark chocolate. Something on which my wife and I actually agree :biggrin:.
 
  • #17
Damn, all this talk of dark chocolate is making me want to change my vote!

The reall high % chocolate (70+%) reminds me of coffee. A very strong, delicious, smooth and inviting aroma but a very bitter, face-twisting taste...
 
  • #18
Dark chocolate for sure. 85% or higher.
 
  • #19
I don't like chocolate that isn't mixed with peanut butter in some way.

White chocolate is an oxymoron.
 
  • #20
White chocolate is cocoa butter without cocoa powder. It's actually the least healthy, since it's mostly fat.

My tastebuds for sweet things are overly sensitive. I can eat baking chocolate just fine. I prefer 89% chocolate. 71 is the lowest i'll go, unless it's very special chocolate (salted almonds in 55% is a good treat, but I wish the brand would make the same with 75%)
 
  • #21
Is that Ghirardelli? They have an 'intense dark sea salt soiree' that's pretty tasty.
 
  • #22
Yep dark chocolate although I like anything between 44% to 85%.
 
  • #23
Eating some dark right now. 85%.
 
  • #24
Doc Al said:
Eating some dark right now. 85%.

Same here, except it's 91%. :biggrin:
 
  • #25
Gad said:
Same here, except it's 91%. :biggrin:
Oh baby! :approve:
 
  • #26
When it's time for our neighbors' grand-daughter's birth-day my wife will always make up a big fruit-platter for the kids, including a bunch of of strawberries dipped in Ghirardelli chocolate, rolled in crushed nuts and frozen. Those don't last long.

You can make the berries disappear as quickly with the parents by using the melted chocolate and a final dip of sour cream, but the kids LOVE the crushed nuts, frozen. I can't blame them. I have to stay away when my wife is making them.
 
  • #27
turbo said:
When it's time for our neighbors' grand-daughter's birth-day my wife will always make up a big fruit-platter for the kids, including a bunch of of strawberries dipped in Ghirardelli chocolate, rolled in crushed nuts and frozen. Those don't last long.

You can make the berries disappear as quickly with the parents by using the melted chocolate and a final dip of sour cream, but the kids LOVE the crushed nuts, frozen. I can't blame them. I have to stay away when my wife is making them.
Dark chocolate?
 
  • #28
Evo said:
Dark chocolate?
Yes. The chocolate is very dark. The kids love those dipped berries with crushed nuts. My wife uses chocolate chunks and melts them in the microwave, then dips the strawberries in the melted chocolate and rolls them in the nuts (chopped walnuts and pecans) before spreading those on a tray to hit the freezer. Kids who are "in the know" make those disappear in short order.
 
  • #29
turbo said:
Yes. The chocolate is very dark. The kids love those dipped berries with crushed nuts.
Yumm.
 
  • #30
My favorite range for dark is 65-75%, but enjoy up to 85 as well as much lower.
 
  • #31
White 100%
 
  • #32
Jimmy Snyder said:
White 100%
That's not even chocolate, it's flavorless fat.
 
  • #33
Evo said:
That's not even chocolate, it's flavorless fat.

It's Jimmy Snyder. Look at his sig. Anyway, it isn't normally completely flavorless - a tiny bit of the chocolate flavor usually survives, at least with old fashioned production methods.
 
  • #34
PAllen said:
It's Jimmy Snyder. Look at his sig. Anyway, it isn't normally completely flavorless - a tiny bit of the chocolate flavor usually survives, at least with old fashioned production methods.
Cocoa butter smells so chocolatey! Take a bite and you'll spit it out.
 
  • #35
My father's parents lived in VT and my mother's in NH. I lived in NJ. When I was a child, before the interstate highway system, it took two days to get to my grandparents' place. We would stop along the way at some cheap motel, stay the night and finish up the next day. We would stop at Hebert's candy shop along the way too. My father loved to get ribbon candy, a kind of hard candy shaped into thin wavy ribbons. One year I got a piece of white chocolate on a stick like a lollypop. That was my first taste of it and I thought it was yummy. I never saw white chocolate again until I was already an adult. I thought that only Hebert's had it. I still think it's yummy, smoother than milk chocolate, and full of warm memories too.
 
  • #36
Jimmy Snyder said:
My father's parents lived in VT and my mother's in NH. I lived in NJ. When I was a child, before the interstate highway system, it took two days to get to my grandparents' place. We would stop along the way at some cheap motel, stay the night and finish up the next day. We would stop at Hebert's candy shop along the way too. My father loved to get ribbon candy, a kind of hard candy shaped into thin wavy ribbons. One year I got a piece of white chocolate on a stick like a lollypop. That was my first taste of it and I thought it was yummy. I never saw white chocolate again until I was already an adult. I thought that only Hebert's had it. I still think it's yummy, smoother than milk chocolate, and full of warm memories too.
Most "white chocolate" today are actually vanilla flavored summer coating. Summer coating are usually sold as discs of "white chocolate".

A lot of people like the vanilla candies. I like them in Pepperidge farms white chocolate macadamia nut cookies.
 
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  • #37
Evo said:
Most "white chocolate" today are actually vanilla flavored summer coating. Summer coating are usually sold as discs of "white chocolate".

A lot of people like the vanilla concoction.
I think I know what you mean. It's whiter than white chocolate and the label says white confection or something like that. I've never had any though.
 
  • #38
Jimmy Snyder said:
White 100%

You racist!
 
  • #39
I didn't know you participated in racing, Jimmy. I would, but my knee is bum.
 
  • #40
I think my mother used to hide her baking chocolate in one of our freezers. I was a monster on that stuff.
 
  • #41
I know someone from russia who goes home every so often and brings back these incredible chocolates, no idea what they are, but the world's best chocolates are definitely russian.
 
  • #42
jeebs said:
I know someone from russia who goes home every so often and brings back these incredible chocolates, no idea what they are, but the world's best chocolates are definitely russian.

I had some chocolate from Russia and it had the taste and texture of wax :(
 
  • #43
turbo said:
I think my mother used to hide her baking chocolate in one of our freezers. I was a monster on that stuff.
I hide my chocolate as well, from my boyfriend. The other night he told me he knows where I hide it, that he just follows the trail.. from my nightstand, to my desk drawer, to the bathroom cupboard :smile:

But there is a bigger stash that I think he hasn't found yet :biggrin:

Dark chocolate with hazelnuts is my favorite.
 
  • #44
My sisters were all sugar-freaks. I would happily eat unsweetened baking chocolate.
 
  • #45
Greg Bernhardt said:
I had some chocolate from Russia and it had the taste and texture of wax :(

lol, that might be what I like about them actually, they've got a weird texture. I hold them in my mouth for ages until they melt.
 

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