The flavor and the texture are so much better than those bitter dark chocolate bars.
Wait, is dark chocolate actually sour to you? Dark chocolate is definitely not sour for me. Bitter maybe, but absolutely not sour.
if they are American then dark chocolate can very well taste sour, look into what Hershey did, literally use soured milk to make chocolate…
In the US, we’ve gotten some really good chocolate over the last couple of decades and I’ve mostly avoided Hersheys over that time. We especially have some excellent dark chocolates. Your “bad chocolate” stereotype was all too true and may still be on average, but things are changing.
I’ve never tasted good white chocolate though
I am not a native english speaker and i always forget about the word “bitter”, i will correct the post, thanks.
High amounts of criollo beans can grant a sour taste if I recall correctly particularly if they are lower quality as can the method you choose for conching (one of the steps in chocolate making) that Milton Hershey created. If they are thinking of something like Hershey’s Special Dark that has a bit of that sourness to it.
All you´re doing is saying that you don’t like chocolate with extra steps …
I have to agree with him white chocolate is superior.
I just don’t like chocolate.
At least you have the courage to say so. I can respect that.
That’s interesting. Can you recommend any brands for me to try? Hopefully I can find them in Malaysia. Maybe I’ll change my mind on white chocolate.
Not the Belgian but Ive been baking with chocolate and making truffles for years. Look for anything that is based on cocoa butter rather than sugar and vanilla. Hopefully it is very fresh as cocoa butter goes rancid pretty quickly.
My top choice was El Rey from Venezuela which is not found in the USA anymore for bullshit reasons. Callebaut and Valrhona are quite good as well.
Callebaut and Valrhona are definitely available for me! I’ll try some of their white choco then. Thanks!
no officer, he was already dead when I found him
His taste buds certainly were.
As a supertaster, bitter things are difficult to enjoy because even slight bitterness tends to overpower everything else. So I agree with OP and will take my downvotes accordingly.
Eww
You shut your dirty blasphemous mouth. Heathen.
Most white chocolate in the USA is bullshit. Real white chocolate is cocoa butter, sugar and an emulsifier. Most of the USA is soy, an emulsifier, vanilla, and sugar.
Real white chocolate tastes like cocoa.
I’m not from the US
In think that’s the point. Most people on here soon to be American and so are basing their opinion on American chocolate (which is disgusting awful regardless of type)
Proper dark chocolate isn’t even good. Milk chocolate however is far better than white chocolate. White is just too… cloying?
I love 70% dark chocolate, often with mint, caramel or sea salt. Those are the best, better than milk and white.
Proper dark chocolate doesn’t have to be 100% cocoa solids. I agree that is too bitter, and I like a very dark chocolate.
There is a literal sweet spot for me, totally dependent on my taste and mood of the day where dark chocolate is just dark enough that fruity noted of the chocolate shine through the bitterness. Which is not to say that I don’t also love milk chocolate, sour milk chocolate aka Hershey’s, and white chocolate.
A good dark chocolate is one of my favourite things in the world. I’ve become a bit of a chocolate and coffee snob in my middle age.
Some of that stuff is only good to use in baking or otherwise as an ingredient.
There are some dark chocolates that are meant for dégustation as well but usually a bit lower on the cacao % and with complex flavour profiles kind of like wine.
Shut it. Debating taste is pointless.
What! I mean, yes, it is pretty unproductive. But occasionally, incredibly rarely, debating taste leads to a phenomenal new innovation, some new understanding. Just not among non-chefs I guess
I completely agree. White chocolate isn’t as sweet and I believe is very underrated.
Ahhh, no.its missing the part that makes chocolate bitter. It’s just sugar and fat
What do you mean? It’s sickly sweet.
It’s literally fat and sugar; what do you mean with “isn’t as sweet” ?!
Wait, dark chocolate is sour? Very high concentration (80%+) dark chocolate is close to powdery and has some fruity notes, but it’s usually slightly bitter rather than sour to me. It’s not my favourite but I can’t think of it as being sour.
lots of people mix up the words bitter and sour
Right? The bitterness is the point. It makes my life so much sweeter in comparison.
There are some chocolates that are definitely sour, sometimes that’s a desired flavor when making chocolate. For example, the last batch of single origin Peru chocolate was noticable more sour than the Bolivian and Ecuadorian ones I made. I’d actually intentionally selected my beans knowing this.
Going off of the comments already, I would say that this is a truly unpopular opinion. Well done, OP!
I can’t tell the pretentious assholes apart from the people jokily pretending to be pretentious assholes. Great stuff.
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My unpopular opinion might be that dark chocolate is gross
