Barry Dahl asked:
There are lots of pretty skilled chocolatiers in London, who make great chocolate trufles. a minotiry of them put that extra bit of attention in, and only produce hand made truffles . Others go the extra mile and refuse to put any preservatives in.
Unless you’ve treated yourself to handmade, fresh chocolate triff;es, you won’t quite believe the difference. chocolates made by hand mean they’ve had that extra bit of attention put in. They are not processed 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.
Who would you rather have making your chocolates? A very expensive piece of machinery that just consumes electricity and doesn’t know if your final truffle is good or bad, or do you want someone that cares about your finished, someone who understands just how good they taste, and quite how good they can be, and also exactly what to do if you have a problem.
Chocolate truffles are very hard to work with and no amounts of investment in fancy machines called ‘Bertha’ can tell a superb chocolate better than a highly skilled chocolatier.
The other very important part about real chocolate is learning what the ingredients are. Buy a chocolate bar from any high street shop (or even from some ‘chocolatiers’ on the high street) and you’ll find ingredients such as vegeatable oil! E-numbers, or flavourings, or preservatives. Trust me, great tasting chocolate truffles does not contain vegetable oil.
Why do chocolate truffles contain vegetable oil?
Because they don’t give a monkeys about taste, and really only care about costs. They want to sell to you the cheapest chocolates they can at the most expensive price they can.
Vegetable oil is used instead of cocoa butter – which is naturally found in real chocolate. The very big and very rich chocolate company will have worked out that they can remove cocoa butter out of chocolate, and sell that for use in cosmetics and face treatments at 4 or 5 times the price of the cheap oil they put back in the chocolate. So removing cocoa butter and replacing with oil is just a way to get more profit for these massive companies. Do chocolate truffles taste any better with vegetable oil in? (I’ll let you decide) if you aren’t sure, then mix a spoon of vegetable oil into a plate of cocoa Taste fantastic? I think not.
Why do fresh, handmade chocolate truffles taste amazing?
handmade chocolates taste better because there is less inside them, and less is better. For a similar comparison, try a cake, freshly made by your aunt that came out of the oven a few hours ago, and compare that with one you bought from a shop – like the ones that you buy in a box, with plastic packaging inside, and a list of ingredients longer than the Sunday Times. I’ve never found a food which is better with stacks of preservatives in, and I doubt you can – nothing can 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.
There are lots of pretty skilled chocolatiers in London, who make great chocolate trufles. a minotiry of them put that extra bit of attention in, and only produce hand made truffles . Others go the extra mile and refuse to put any preservatives in.
Unless you’ve treated yourself to handmade, fresh chocolate triff;es, you won’t quite believe the difference. chocolates made by hand mean they’ve had that extra bit of attention put in. They are not processed 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.
Who would you rather have making your chocolates? A very expensive piece of machinery that just consumes electricity and doesn’t know if your final truffle is good or bad, or do you want someone that cares about your finished, someone who understands just how good they taste, and quite how good they can be, and also exactly what to do if you have a problem.
Chocolate truffles are very hard to work with and no amounts of investment in fancy machines called ‘Bertha’ can tell a superb chocolate better than a highly skilled chocolatier.
The other very important part about real chocolate is learning what the ingredients are. Buy a chocolate bar from any high street shop (or even from some ‘chocolatiers’ on the high street) and you’ll find ingredients such as vegeatable oil! E-numbers, or flavourings, or preservatives. Trust me, great tasting chocolate truffles does not contain vegetable oil.
Why do chocolate truffles contain vegetable oil?
Because they don’t give a monkeys about taste, and really only care about costs. They want to sell to you the cheapest chocolates they can at the most expensive price they can.
Vegetable oil is used instead of cocoa butter – which is naturally found in real chocolate. The very big and very rich chocolate company will have worked out that they can remove cocoa butter out of chocolate, and sell that for use in cosmetics and face treatments at 4 or 5 times the price of the cheap oil they put back in the chocolate. So removing cocoa butter and replacing with oil is just a way to get more profit for these massive companies. Do chocolate truffles taste any better with vegetable oil in? (I’ll let you decide) if you aren’t sure, then mix a spoon of vegetable oil into a plate of cocoa Taste fantastic? I think not.
Why do fresh, handmade chocolate truffles taste amazing?
handmade chocolates taste better because there is less inside them, and less is better. For a similar comparison, try a cake, freshly made by your aunt that came out of the oven a few hours ago, and compare that with one you bought from a shop – like the ones that you buy in a box, with plastic packaging inside, and a list of ingredients longer than the Sunday Times. I’ve never found a food which is better with stacks of preservatives in, and I doubt you can – nothing can 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.