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> I want my chocolate to taste like chocolate. There is no such thing. Unfermented chocolate tastes "green". What you think of as "chocolate" is from fermentat
by ars 5y ago
> I want my chocolate to taste like chocolate.
There is no such thing. Unfermented chocolate tastes "green". What you think of as "chocolate" is from fermentation, of which this is an alternative method.
- nly 5y agoCase in point: Brands like Hershey's that use butyric acid in the manufacturing process, which literally taste like vomit to many Europeans.
- jfengel 5y agoButyric acid does smell like vomit, to everybody, not just Europeans. It also smells like butter, which is where the name comes from. Concentration makes a huge difference in smells. Vomit has a higher concentration of butyric acid than butter does. Hershey has a very different flavor profile than most European chocolates, but the butyric acid isn't the issue. It's the whole concoction, a complicated set of processing, flavor chemicals, milk solids, and other things.