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[Speicher]

I agree that 52% cocoa should be okay for chocolate brownies.

I was curious as to what people thought of using a much higher cocoa content chocolate.

The Asda near here sells Menier and Dr Oetker cooking chocolate.

 

[Reynard]

The 52% stuff is fine for poncy stuff too - it's actually got a slightly higher cocoa content than the Callebaut. Both are good dessert (cooking) chocolates, although the latter is somewhat pricier than the former.

I suspect the insistence on high cocoa content choccy for cooking is simply a marketing ploy to sell more expensive chocolate. Once you get over 50% cocoa content, the difference in taste when using it in cakes and desserts is negligible.

TBH, when it comes to eating dark chocolate, I find anything over 65% much too bitter anyway.

 

[Speicher]

The 52% stuff is fine for poncy stuff too - it's actually got a slightly higher cocoa content than the Callebaut. Both are good dessert (cooking) chocolates, although the latter is somewhat pricier than the former.

I suspect the insistence on high cocoa content choccy for cooking is simply a marketing ploy to sell more expensive chocolate. Once you get over 50% cocoa content, the difference in taste when using it in cakes and desserts is negligible.

TBH, I find anything over 65% much too bitter anyway.

Yes, I like Divine's milk chocolate (as in bar of chocolate) but I find their dark chocolate is bitter. I would have thought as you do, that 52% cocoa is fine, and cannot understand why she insisted on the 72% one.

I avoid anything with "chocolately flavouring/chocolate flavour".

 

[Reynard]

I avoid anything with "chocolately flavouring/chocolate flavour".

Unsurprising, as anything with flavouring in is just that - flavour. Chances are it's never been near any chocolate. Something like Scotbloc (Do they still make that stuff?) is absolutely vile.

Lidl actually do some very nice milk chocolate - with it being German, it's not as sweet as Cadbury's or stuff of that ilk.

 

[EltonFrog]

Fish and chips and a cocoa infused beer for tea.

I don't push envelopes me.

 

[hopless500]

Note to self....Need to do that today before Newcastle trip tomorrow. Cheers

Note to self also. Out of squirty windscreen stuff.

 

[hopless500]

Look away @potsy
It's finished

 

[potsy]

What is it?

 

[TVC]

Look away @potsy
It's finished View attachment 337341

Couldn't you decide what to make

 

[hopless500]

What is it?

It's a 'thing' that neutralises kebabs

 

[hopless500]

Couldn't you decide what to make

 

[hopless500]

I think it's called scumbling.

Kind of. Freeform using scrumbles

 

[summerdays]

[QUOTE 4679169, member: 21629"]Ha, it's me a lucky person, not him.

He went to CAB with me few times after I was sacked. He brought my clothes and other stuff to London hospital when I asked him if he could do so. He saw the carpet in my room and didn't ask to replace it. He agreed to delay my rent when I was unable to pay it for January.

Instead of asking me to find another place to live and getting another tenant.[/QUOTE]
He sounds a decent landlord!

 

[potsy]

I think it's called scumbling.

Kind of. Freeform using scrumbles

Well that's cleared that up

 

[fossyant]

Look away @potsy
It's finished View attachment 337341

Looks amazing. How long did it take ? My wife recently finished a quilt cover that's patch work and embroidered, and it took a year... A YEAR - I'd be bored after an hour.