Barry Dahl asked:


There are lots of very friendly chocolatiers in London, who make fantastically tasty chocolate trufles. a minotiry of them put that extra bit of tender love and care in, and only make hand made chocolates . Others go the extra mile and don’t put any preservatives in.

chocolates made by hand mean they’ve had that extra bit of tender love and care put in. They are not produced buy a machine that is the size of your house, but slowly made by a trained oompa loompa’s hands, caring about each and every chocolate truffle that is made.

Chocolate truffles are very hard to work with and no amounts of investment in fancy machines called ‘Bertha’ can tell a beautiful chocolate better than a skilled chocolatier.

Buy a bar of chocolate from any high street shop (or even from some ‘chocolatiers’ on the high street) and you’ll find ingredients such as E-numbers, or flavourings,. Trust me, great tasting chocolate truffles doesn’t contain vegetable oil.

Why do cheap chocolate truffles have vegetable oil in?

Because they don’t care about taste, and only care about costs. They want to sell to you the cheapest chocolates they can at the most expensive price they can.

The very big and very rich chocolate company will have calculated that they can remove cocoa butter out of chocolate, and sell that for use in cosmetics at 4 or 5 times the price of the replacement they put back in the chocolate.

Why do fresh, handmade chocolate truffles taste so good?

Fresh, handmade chocolates taste better because there is less inside them, and less is better. I’ve never ever found a food which is better with stacks of preservatives in, and I doubt you will – nothing will beat home-made fresh food, and I really want you to seek out the best of any food you find – if it’s bread, cakes, doughnuts or fresh chocolates.