Ten Kilograms of Chocolate (2020)

It would be interesting to see an Americas-centric version of this test. I'm a huge fan of El Rey chocolate (from Venezuela), particularly their Caoba 41%-cocoa milk variety. Obviously, not much (if any?) cocoa is actually produced in the EU, but more or less all the chocolate brands tested are (this is not a problem, but leaves open the possibility of a repeat test with a totally orthogonal set of chocolate brands).

Would be interesting to see what correlation the ranking has with sugar content and also possibly generate a ranking normalized for sugar content.

I call the day after Valentine&#x27;s Day &quot;Cheap Chocolates Day.&quot; I hauled at least 14 kg of chocolate this year, in addition to already having on hand: bulk chocolate-covered raisins, bulk chocolate-covered cashews, chocolate&amp;almond-covered ice cream bars, powdered cocoa for hot cocoa, Nutella, 5 different flavours of Clif bars that include chocolate, chocolate ice cream, chocolate gelato, and wine and port to go with the chocolate.<p>Applications for testers now accepted. :)

I&#x27;m surprised these were all actually distinct chocolates and that some of them weren&#x27;t just relabelled bars produced by a different company on the list already.

If you’re interested in chocolate, highly recommend trying out some of the winners of the International Chocolate Awards -<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.internationalchocolateawards.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.internationalchocolateawards.com&#x2F;</a>

How could you forget Tony&#x27;s Chocolonely?!

If you want to get a nice tour of different chocolates every month, I recommend Cococlectic ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cococlectic.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cococlectic.com&#x2F;</a> ). I&#x27;m not affiliated with them in any way, but have been receiving craft chocolate from them each month for years. Yes, like in the post, you will get the ones that taste like tobacco and chalk sometimes, and other times you&#x27;ll get something divine. It&#x27;s a fun surprise each time the box arrives.

Neat experiment! Nice of them to make the code available. I’d be interested to hear more about the logistics of running it for the participants. Would be fun to do one locally.<p>One question - I noticed one of the tasters said “Knack.” twice in the comments. As an American, I’m not familiar with that word being used this way. Is this just a way of saying “Clever” or something like that?

None of these is what I&#x27;d call premium chocolate, though. I&#x27;d done something like this at the office with gianduias (chocolate blended with hazelnuts), Venchi came out on top.

I&#x27;m disappointed to see many of the big Belgian brands (other than Cote d&#x27;Or) were omitted. I&#x27;m particularly partial to Neuhaus and Galler. I was very surprised to see Lindt in the top five; I personally find it to be waxy and weak. But maybe the version available here in US supermarkets is not the same as the European product.

Amusingly, if you compare to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;onlydarkchocolate.com&#x2F;tag&#x2F;5-stars&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;onlydarkchocolate.com&#x2F;tag&#x2F;5-stars&#x2F;</a>, it seems that the individual preferences vary fairly strongly.<p>It would be interesting to have a matrix decomposition of preferences.

If you need an excuse to eat more chocolate.... I mean collect more data, you could try a swiss-style tournament next time. It will yield more match data for the weaker chocolates.

I&#x27;ve just made the calculation. I eat about 60g of chocolate a day. That&#x27;s 83kg per year. Mostly Villars 72% and Lindt 78% but I may do with lesser 70% cocoa ones if necessary...

One comment on the presentation: Markdown-style ASCII art tables look cool and all but they don’t work well on mobile at all. And I imagine they’re not very good for accessibility either.

Almost all recipes I see from famous British cooks tell you to use Valrhona but I&#x27;ve always preferred Lindt.<p>This test tells me I am not alone.

I learned from this that I really like Björnsted equador dark 70%. Lindt is pretty good too, but I knew that.