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Yay or Nay?
My thoughts were to wrap it or batter it and cook until just melting enough to keep its shape but be easy to eat and then serve with a good helping of cream.
Damn that looks pretty good
East as is...
YES!
That is known as an 'Alan Partridge'. Bin dun
Yay and nay. Toblerone is chocolate, the Terry's thing I'm not so sure. If Britain hadn't been allowed to join the common market us Europeans would never have accepted chocolate flavoured vegetable fat as "chocolate". One of the failures of the EU.
Just when you thought shoving a Toblerone up your arse couldn’t be any more uncomfortable.....
@pp
RM.
the Terry’s thing I’m not so sure
I've recently developed a bit of a soft spot for chocolate oranges. They're probably not a great example fo chocolate but they're good at being what they are. I tell you what they're really great for - poke a little slot into a croissant - and prod a piece of Terrys in there before it goes in the oven. Fwoooar.
I think toblerlone is a bit boring by comparison even if its objectively better chocolate.
Nay
Not on taste grounds, but simply because I would become ill courtesy of a cocoa intolerance.
Orange Toblerone is good if you can find them
I’m a dark chocolate man. I am partial to choccy orange but 75% cocoa with a sprinkling of sea salt; scrummy.
After five years at Lindt including serving on the chocolate tasing team I understood how the ingredients and process influenced the texture and taste of the products. The chocolate orange tastes cheap. They've made compromises on conching and ingredients which means it isn't as smooth, powerful and chocolaty as it could be. Disappointing IMO.
Toblerone isn't my type of chocolate but it's well made.
I read on some Terry's packaging recently that their best known product is made with "real orange oil".
1. I didn't realise oranges produced oil.
2. First google result describes orange oil as a mild neurotoxin.
Orange Toblerone is good if you can find them
Sounds filthy.
Where do I find one?
Last we had was from Tesco.
We are eating our chocolate store down ready to stock up on the Lindt eggs when Tesco do their Easter egg sell off the day after Easter.
The salad tray in the camper that is always topped up with chocolate and the one at the bottom of the wine cooler are almost empty
It's a good job we don't do sell by dates
It’s a good job we don’t do sell by dates
With chocolate you should, one of the regualar tests was comparing the day's production with previous lots. There were two objectives: check the current batch was up to standard but also to see how the older batches were ageing. The more recent chocolate was noticeably stronger flavoured/smell and nicer. By the time the chocolate approached sell by/best before it had lost the "wow that's good" factor. It was more noticeable in some products than others.
...but you won't die
Once you see the bear in the Toblerone mountain you can’t unsee it.
Are we discussing chocolate or confectionery.
I like both, but they time and a place.
Few squares of nice dark chocolate with a glass of red wine.
Or a sugary confectionery bar after a bike ride.
https://www.theonion.com/im-like-a-chocoholic-but-for-booze-1819583778
Sort of funny not funny. memorable, though. It's been 20 years since I read it and it still comes back to me every now and then.
This is the best chocolate:
https://www.choctree.co.uk/product/peru-chililique-dark-70/
Although for value for money, Aldi's £1.29 dark chocolate is really quite hard to beat
I've gone off dark since it gave me a hangover... Is that normal, to get a hangover off too much dark chocolate?
Is that normal, to get a hangover off too much dark chocolate?
I find it depends on how much wine I accompany it with.
2. First google result describes orange oil as a mild neurotoxin
A mate worked in the logistics side of a factory that produced food concentrates and flavourings. Orange concentrate is toxic enough that it can only be shipped in individual 1Lt containers as opposed to larger more convenient bulk packaging and has to travel with a hazardous material certificate.
@Tracey make sure you also get the deer and rabbits from Lidl/Aldi as good as the Lindt stuff and also flogged off cheap after the day.
When did you last shop in Aldi, those bars have been £1.49 for some time.
After five years at Lindt including serving on the chocolate tasing team I understood how the ingredients and process influenced the texture and taste of the products. The chocolate orange tastes cheap. They’ve made compromises on conching and ingredients which means it isn’t as smooth, powerful and chocolaty as it could be. Disappointing IMO.
Bore off, terrys chocolate oranges are well nice, as is Cadbury's AND so is s****y foreign chocolate!
I'm working on a job at the moment on the site of the original Terrys chocolate works in York, It used to be next to a manure works!!
There was an interesting programme on Radio 4 (The Food Programme I suspect) a while back about the ethics of chocolate production, if that's something that bothers you. The way cocoa farmers are treated etc.
The Tony's Chocolonely range is apparently a very good one to buy from that point of view. Am sure there are others too. And it's very tasty into the bargain.
MrsP got some 100% Hotel Chocolat advent calendars in the sale a few years ago so I took one to work and fed it to my team. They almost universally said it was one of the most unpleasant things they'd tried - bitter, very strong and left your mouth feeling like leather. We chopped up the leftovers and put them in some homemade flapjack (with cranberries and dates and nuts and... nom!)
When did you last shop in Aldi, those bars have been £1.49 for some time.
Oh no!
Pre-pandemic, at least...
After five years at Lindt including serving on the chocolate tasing team I understood how the ingredients and process influenced the texture and taste of the products. The chocolate orange tastes cheap. They’ve made compromises on conching and ingredients which means it isn’t as smooth, powerful and chocolaty as it could be. Disappointing IMO.
Strangely, Lindt is one of the chocolates I dislike, while loving Choc Orange. (Must have been because of 4 years of taste testing cheese, while working in food development. I still love cheese! 😀 )
Bore off, terrys chocolate oranges are well nice, as is Cadbury’s AND so is s****y foreign chocolate!
This. Apart from Lindt, which is minging.
NickC sed> Orange concentrate is toxic enough that it can only be shipped in individual 1Lt containers
Plot for a ginger revenge tragedy there, forget death by chocolate.
Tracey
Orange Toblerone is good if you can find them
OMG..my life is complete
Bore off,
No, I really wish you guys saying this would. As I might not agree with someones opinion, but I find it interesting to hear, especially when they worked/know the field.
With chocolate you should, one of the regualar tests was comparing the day’s production with previous lots. There were two objectives: check the current batch was up to standard but also to see how the older batches were ageing. The more recent chocolate was noticeably stronger flavoured/smell and nicer. By the time the chocolate approached sell by/best before it had lost the “wow that’s good” factor. It was more noticeable in some products than others.
That's interesting. I was once told by a chocolatier in Brussels that chocolate essentially didn't go off ever, aside from discolouring. Other ingredients might, say if they're cream-filled or something. I wonder if there's something fundamentally different between mass-produced chocolate and the stuff produced by a short angry Belgian?
Was told similar about chocolate not really going off, that was by a food scientist. My first job leaving school was working for a food manufacturer and flavouring company. I had a chocolate bar that had developed a white film, was told it was just because of the heat. I was told it will go off eventually but dark chocolate would last years past the sell by date if stored correctly.
Killer place to work, the smells made me constantly crave sweet food!
these are keeping us going.
I dare not post the bulk of what I'm eating in case my self-respect takes a beating that I may never recover from.
I had a chocolate bar that had developed a white film
Yeah, 'blooming.' Still perfectly fine to eat though (or so we were told).
Lockdown is upsetting our chocolate scheduling. We are almost through the huge stack bought for us at Christmas and we are not even close to Easter yet.
I may have to actually buy some myself
My Xmas chocolate has been stuffed in the back of the freezer as I'm on the Chub Club thread right now...
One of the best Christmas presents I've ever had was a subscription to this lot:
https://cocoarunners.com/subscribe/
So much so that I've now asked for it to be my main present every Christmas. Some of them really are sublime, I was staggered how much variety there can be in dark chocolate, and that's without adding orange oil, nuts, etc.
Tesco had the orange twist Toblerone in store this morning, couldn't resist 😃
I've just recently become a massive convert to dark milk chocolate, the best of both worlds, the Lidl's own brand one is very very good. Cadbury's offering in this category is probably my least favorite, Hotel Chocolat is always a winner.
Can you imagine a pastry based product with a ganache filling with fruit on the top, yes, yes you can.
Lidl dark chocolate makes divine brownies. Their own brand 'Choceur fruit and nut mild chocolate is my favourite.
I’ve just recently become a massive convert to dark milk chocolate
Totally agree. When I fist saw it I thought "gimmick" but it's probably the type of chocolate I buy most now.
Tony's Chocolonely also does a delicious Toblerone-alike verson (almond honey nougat) in a yellow wrapper, since that's where the thread started. All are great, although some people find them annoying in that they are deliberately not shaped to break into even pieces... it's part of their thing, referencing the inequality in cocoa production. I just find it makes me break of bigger chunks than intended, but I'm OK with that...
Bore off, terrys chocolate oranges are well nice
They haven’y been ‘nice’ since 19numptyneen. Now just utter shite. Terry’s Chocolate Orange used to be my favourite chocolate of all, now it’s some soft sickly fake-tasting veg oil bolx.
It’s worse than ‘boring’, and it’s not Terry's. It’s like the chocoverse version of North American superstore idea of what ‘cheese’ is:
(voice from the wings)
‘Bore off, that packet cheddar’s WELL nice...’
I really love chocolate and have all of my life, but find that I disagree with most younger people who seem to be simply addicted to sugar, oil/fat and flavourings.
Same goes for cider. There is cider:
And then there is ‘cider’
And then there was Cadbury’s Dairy Milk
‘Like it always will be...’ they said.
Sincerely,
H. Arumph
Battenberg,
Wilts.
It also needs renaming as Terry's Chocolate Satsuma. Not only are they tiny, the cheeky bastards have made one side of each piece concave so it's even smaller than it looks.
You could all try my mates chocolate.
http://www.mortimerchocolate.co.uk/
does a fab chocolate fountain at parties 🙂
If you like Hotel Chocolate, I’ve just got their Velvetiser. It does make the most amazing cup of hot chocolate and looks pretty funky in the kitchen too.