What's your favorite type of chocolate?

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The forum discussion centers on preferences for different types of chocolate, specifically dark, milk, and white chocolate. Participants express a strong preference for dark chocolate, particularly varieties with high cocoa content, such as 85% and above, citing health benefits and superior taste. Milk chocolate is appreciated for its creaminess, while white chocolate is criticized as not being true chocolate due to its lack of cocoa solids. The conversation also touches on personal anecdotes and recipes involving chocolate, particularly dark chocolate with nuts and fruit.

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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
  • #31
White 100%
 
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  • #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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