How to taste and describe chocolate
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- Clay Gordon , Author, Discover Chocolate
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Clay Gordon
Author, Discover Chocolate
Gone are the days when your only chocolate choices were milk chocolate or dark. Here's how to taste, judge and describe chocolates like a connoisseur, from chocolate expert and author Clay Gordon.
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How to taste and describe chocolate
- Describing chocolate is not very different from describing a wine.
- When describing chocolate you are not only talking about how it tastes but also the texture of how it melts in your mouth.
- Chocolate bars can have all kinds of flavors from fruits to nuts to wood.
- A great chocolate is going to engage all of your senses. It will look good, smell good, taste good and even sound nice when you break off a piece.
- Look at the chocolate to see if it has a nice sheen.
- Break off a piece to see if it snaps well and breaks easily.
- Then determine what it smells like. Does it smell sweet, are there hints if vanilla, is there a big chocolate smell to it?
- Next you want to taste the chocolate. Put it in your mouth and chew it a couple of times to start the melting process.
- Then let it melt on the top of your tongue.
- When eating a chocolate bon bon and determining the flavor characteristics you want to eat it in two bites.
- The higher quality of chocolate, the less you need to eat to feel satisfied.
- Sometimes chocolate is simply the delivery vehicle for flavor.
- White chocolate is a much more mild form and usually the other flavors predominate.
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