How To Taste Chocolate: An Expert Guide to Tasting the Flavors of Cacao
Posted in Handling and Storing Chocolate on December 11th, 2009 by sarita – Comments Off
Ever wonder how to properly taste chocolate? With so many types of chocolate available, it’s hard to know what to look for, let alone what to taste for. While there’s always a matter of personal preference in chocolate tasting, this excellent guide from Nibble is a great way to begin exploring chocolate the way professional food tasters do.
The Tasting Chocolate Guide is broken out into sections so you’ll learn to judge chocolate’s aroma, appearance and taste. Chocolate tasting is a great activity to do with friends, where you gather a small group and each person brings a different dark chocolate bar or two. You take turns evaluating the different types of chocolate. Which one seems more waxy than the others? What region’s chocolate did folks enjoy the most?
The Nibble Tasting Chocolate Guide also suggests the assortment of chocolates to have at a chocolate tasting and the best sequence to enjoy them. Check it out here.
