100% Dark Chocolate - not sure

rsvmark · January 2020

Nibbling my way through a bar of Absolute Black by Montezuma’s- its 100% cocoa and no sugar and genuinely not sure if I am enjoying it. It is intense flavour and I am finding that 1/3 of each square is about as much as you need to get it. It also slightly drys your mouth our so a glass of water on hand is good. Having 2 squares is about as much as it gets.

TheMarlin · January 2020

I do like 90%dark chocolate. Not seen 100%.

What’s the carb content?

axisus · January 2020

100% is evil. It sucks all the moisture out of your mouth. Deeply unpleasant stuff. I bought it once, virtually the whole thing went in the bin.

Fuengi · January 2020

It varies. The Montezuma is the most edible 100% I've tried. I had another brand last year for Christmas and it was like eating coal.

85% - 90% is where I live.

fields5069 · January 2020

I guess it's not for Western style consumption. I think indigenous cultures are more likely to use pure chocolate in other things - cooking, spiced hot chocolate, etc. Not for snacking.

scrumhalf · January 2020

I remember buying a box of a selection if dark chocolate in Bruges, each bit was marked with the different type and %ge. Eating it felt like indulging in a weird chemistry experiment.

RaymondLin · January 2020

100% is not nice, I can eat it, but usually end up drinking some milk afterwards to balance off the aftertaste. Which defeats the point of having 100% chocolate. I might as well eat milk chocolate and enjoy it more.

TheMarlin · January 2020

RaymondLin said:

100% is not nice, I can eat it, but usually end up drinking some milk afterwards to balance off the aftertaste. Which defeats the point of having 100% chocolate. I might as well eat milk chocolate and enjoy it more.

Milk chocolate is disgusting. Sickly sweet.

ThePrettyDamned · January 2020

TheMarlin said:

RaymondLin said:

100% is not nice, I can eat it, but usually end up drinking some milk afterwards to balance off the aftertaste. Which defeats the point of having 100% chocolate. I might as well eat milk chocolate and enjoy it more.

Milk chocolate is disgusting. Sickly sweet.

Any chocolate with milk in is milk chocolate - including 95 percenters.

I don't like these, but I'm not sure if it's because I don't like 100 percent cocoa or because it's low quality. I have had some awful 90 percent chocolate (lindtt) and some really nice ones (one from a chocolatier at a market, no idea where they sourced their raw ingredients). I suspect it's like coffee - there are good, specialty producers and lots of nasty stuff floating around, plus an extra layer of complexity for how the chocolate is then produced from the raw materials.

RaymondLin · January 2020

TheMarlin said:

RaymondLin said:

100% is not nice, I can eat it, but usually end up drinking some milk afterwards to balance off the aftertaste. Which defeats the point of having 100% chocolate. I might as well eat milk chocolate and enjoy it more.

Milk chocolate is disgusting. Sickly sweet.

You are sterotyping milk chocolate with crap chocolate.

Sassafras · January 2020

Apparently, chocolate can improve sexual performance.

Please form an orderly queue.

stickyfiddle · January 2020

RaymondLin said:

100% is not nice, I can eat it, but usually end up drinking some milk afterwards to balance off the aftertaste. Which defeats the point of having 100% chocolate. I might as well eat milk chocolate and enjoy it more.

Completely agree. I like a good 80-90% when in the mood, but most of the time something around 60-70% is plenty. It's supposed to be a treat, not a punishment!

Dopesick · January 2020

Instead of eating a bar of 90%+ dark chocolate, make a batch of brownies using a couple of eggs, sweetener (Stevia is a good one), coconut flour and some extract of your choice.

I made some chocolate orange brownies last week using a bar of the extra dark stuff and they were seriously un-friggin-believable. Dead easy to make as well.

Sassafras · January 2020

Dopesick said:

Instead of eating a bar of 90%+ dark chocolate, make a batch of brownies using a couple of eggs, sweetener (Stevia is a good one), coconut flour and some extract of your choice.

I made some chocolate orange brownies last week using a bar of the extra dark stuff and they were seriously un-friggin-believable. Dead easy to make as well.

Sounds too much like a Lamington which can be fatal if ingested in huge amounts.

TheMarlin · January 2020

RaymondLin said:

TheMarlin said:

RaymondLin said:

100% is not nice, I can eat it, but usually end up drinking some milk afterwards to balance off the aftertaste. Which defeats the point of having 100% chocolate. I might as well eat milk chocolate and enjoy it more.

Milk chocolate is disgusting. Sickly sweet.

You are sterotyping milk chocolate with crap chocolate.

I don’t like any milk chocolate. It’s my own opinion, but I find it to be nasty stuff. I’m not into sweet things, except maybe a REALLY good black cherry gelato in the summer.

DiscoStu · January 2020

I love dark chocolate but really don't fancy trying 100%. 70-80% is just fine.

thermionic · January 2020

I bought one of these just to say I've tried it. I'll be staying down at 72%-85% from now on. Marks and Spencers do a nice range of stuff from different countries, all hugely different in taste.

skay · January 2020

Montezuma 100% is my favourite, plus I occasionally buy the one with almonds and the one with the orange bits to change things up a bit. They make a bar with orange and geranium, which sounds rather hippy-ish, but is amazing if you can find any for sale anywhere.

I only have upto 4 squares of this at a time in the evening with a coffee and a handful of Brazil nuts, and is much healthier than a milk chocolate bar, which taste sickly sweet to me now.

100% sounds scary, but if you approach it as something different to milk chocolate, you may just become a convert.

UnclePsychosis · January 2020

Fuengi said:

It varies. The Montezuma is the most edible 100% I've tried. I had another brand last year for Christmas and it was like eating coal.

85% - 90% is where I live.

This. I don't know how Montezuma do it but their 100% is rather special. Other 100%s I've tried are basically good for cooking and nothing else.

hollywoodrox · January 2020

scrumhalf said:

I remember buying a box of a selection if dark chocolate in Bruges, each bit was marked with the different type and %ge. Eating it felt like indulging in a weird chemistry experiment.

I had a selection box too at Christmas ,it was galaxy

rsvmark · January 2020

thermionic said:

I bought one of these just to say I've tried it.

That’s exactly why I bought a bar

skay said:

Montezuma 100% is my favourite, plus I occasionally buy the one with almonds and the one with the orange bits to change things up a bit. They make a bar with orange and geranium, which sounds rather hippy-ish, but is amazing if you can find any for sale anywhere.

That thought crossed my mind too- this might be rather good if it had a little something just to offset its ‘full on’ nature

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