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As someone who fancies good chocolate, I haven't really found an incredibly high correlation between cost/satisfaction past the 4 dollar per bar mark. The only
by debacle 9y ago
As someone who fancies good chocolate, I haven't really found an incredibly high correlation between cost/satisfaction past the 4 dollar per bar mark. The only real exception to that is exceptionally fresh chocolate that's been made only a few feet away from where I'm buying it, but there's nowhere like that local to me.
- wuliwong 9y agoI haven't even thought of "fresh chocolate" before reading these comments. What is it about fresh chocolate that's better?
- sp332 9y agoLike coffee, a lot of the flavor and smell are extremely volatile chemicals. (Not in the explosive sense lol.) They just evaporate into thin air in a small amount of time, which is one of the reasons they have such a strong smell. If you keep ground coffee sitting around for a few days, it's going to taste noticeably different for the same reason.
- zjaffee 9y agoI've heard similar things about milling your own grains into flower before cooking with them. The flavor profile of anything you make with it will simply just be stronger.
- mseebach 9y agoI hypothesised the same, remembering the huge difference freshly ground coffee made, and got a flour grinder a little while back. I've only made a few batches, and I'm still tuning the recipe, but I have not been blown away by the flavour. I need to try different kinds of grain, and I guess I need to make a proper side-by-side comparison, but it certainly is nothing like coffee in flavour-difference.
- lazerpants 9y agoWhat are your favorites? I find that the sweet spot is closer to $10-12 a bar, but that's NYC prices so maybe it's just difference in local costs.