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Title: What's the difference in White Chocolate and Dark Chocolate? Which do you like?
Post by: Karen W. on 14/12/2007 21:06:44: Well For some reason I feel the flavor is different and

I can't stand white chocolate.. Is this all in my head???

Is there really a difference? Are they processed

different or do they have varied ingredients?
Title: What's the difference in White Chocolate and Dark Chocolate? Which do you like?
Post by: Carolyn on 14/12/2007 21:09:25: White chocolate seems sweeter to me. I like it, but in very very very small doses. Melted over pretzels is really good. Actually, I like it better with something salty like pretzles and peanuts.
Title: What's the difference in White Chocolate and Dark Chocolate? Which do you like?
Post by: Karen W. on 14/12/2007 22:08:30: It does seem sweeter thats why I don't like it! LOL
Title: What's the difference in White Chocolate and Dark Chocolate? Which do you like?
Post by: Simulated on 14/12/2007 22:23:34: Idk, but I loveee special dark chocolate!
Title: What's the difference in White Chocolate and Dark Chocolate? Which do you like?
Post by: neilep on 14/12/2007 22:35:32: I like white choccy.....and I prefer the milkier choccy to the dark stuff..but I've also had strawberry chocolate and raspberry too...yummy...and banana.....and the choccy was those colours also....

...but...I also think that White choccy is sweeter and can taste a litlle sickly sometimes !! (after ten bars or so !!)
Title: What's the difference in White Chocolate and Dark Chocolate? Which do you like?
Post by: BenV on 14/12/2007 22:44:56: The difference is cocoa solids.
To make chocolate, you take cocoa beans and squeeze them hard - this makes them separate into cocoa solids (brown, bitter, psychoactive, probably good for you stuff) and cocoa butter (fat, just fat. kinda cocoa bean lard). To make dark chocolate, you then mix the 2 back up with loads of sugar. To make milk chocolate you mix the two back up with milk and, you guessed it, loads of sugar. To make white chocolate, you mix cocoa butter (lard, remember) with sugar.

So dark chocolate is good, white chocolate is sugar and lard.

Personally, i prefer the really dark stuff (70% cocoa solids+). It's bitter, but somehow more satisfying.
Title: What's the difference in White Chocolate and Dark Chocolate? Which do you like?
Post by: neilep on 14/12/2007 22:58:22: Isn't the hard stuff (70% cocoa solids+) medicinal too ?
Title: What's the difference in White Chocolate and Dark Chocolate? Which do you like?
Post by: Karen W. on 14/12/2007 23:08:09: Quote from: neilep on 14/12/2007 22:35:32
I like white choccy.....and I prefer the milkier choccy to the dark stuff..but I've also had strawberry chocolate and raspberry too...yummy...and banana.....and the choccy was those colours also....

...but...I also think that White choccy is sweeter and can taste a little sickly sometimes !! (after ten bars or so !!)
Yep I like the milk chocolate better. some dark is ok, but I prefer the milk chocolate.. and I love the Rasberry Chocolate it is delicious.. I have not tried the others but have eaten a nutty banana and the chocolate and banana go well together!

White chocolate is way to sweet!
Title: What's the difference in White Chocolate and Dark Chocolate? Which do you like?
Post by: Karen W. on 14/12/2007 23:10:06: Quote from: BenV on 14/12/2007 22:44:56
The difference is cocoa solids.
To make chocolate, you take cocoa beans and squeeze them hard - this makes them separate into cocoa solids (brown, bitter, psychoactive, probably good for you stuff) and cocoa butter (fat, just fat. kinda cocoa bean lard). To make dark chocolate, you then mix the 2 back up with loads of sugar. To make milk chocolate you mix the two back up with milk and, you guessed it, loads of sugar. To make white chocolate, you mix cocoa butter (lard, remember) with sugar.

So dark chocolate is good, white chocolate is sugar and lard.

Personally, i prefer the really dark stuff (70% cocoa solids+). It's bitter, but somehow more satisfying.

Thats interesting. They have a chocolate factory in Idaho.. WOW does that place stink! You would think that as good as chocolate is it would smell good...but NOoooooo! It reeks! LOL Worst smell for miles around the place!
Title: What's the difference in White Chocolate and Dark Chocolate? Which do you like?
Post by: Karen W. on 14/12/2007 23:11:33: Quote from: neilep on 14/12/2007 22:58:22
Isn't the hard stuff (70% cocoa solids+) medicinal too ?

You mean the cocoa it self is medicinal.....

You Know I read something recently about a little chocolate being good for you... so you may be right!
Title: What's the difference in White Chocolate and Dark Chocolate? Which do you like?
Post by: Seany on 14/12/2007 23:25:09: Ewww.. Me hates white and dark chocolate!!
Milk chocolate is t he best [;D]
Title: What's the difference in White Chocolate and Dark Chocolate? Which do you like?
Post by: Karen W. on 14/12/2007 23:38:19: Yepperoo! Welcome back home young man!
Title: What's the difference in White Chocolate and Dark Chocolate? Which do you like?
Post by: Carolyn on 15/12/2007 02:34:49: Hi Seany! Nice to see you!!
Title: What's the difference in White Chocolate and Dark Chocolate? Which do you like?
Post by: Carolyn on 15/12/2007 02:36:12: I LOVE milk chocolate with peanut butter. It's almost as good as s....

.........it's just goooood!
Title: What's the difference in White Chocolate and Dark Chocolate? Which do you like?
Post by: Karen W. on 15/12/2007 03:09:41: Quote from: Carolyn on 15/12/2007 02:36:12
I LOVE milk chocolate with peanut butter. It's almost as good as s....

.........it's just goooood!

Yep its Dang good!... LOL
Title: What's the difference in White Chocolate and Dark Chocolate? Which do you like?
Post by: another_someone on 15/12/2007 04:27:56: Quote from: BenV on 14/12/2007 22:44:56
So dark chocolate is good, white chocolate is sugar and lard.

Not really fair - lard is animal fat, while you would be hard put to find any animal fat in white chocolate.
Title: What's the difference in White Chocolate and Dark Chocolate? Which do you like?
Post by: Karen W. on 15/12/2007 05:06:27: What is it they use if not, a vegetable fat?
Title: What's the difference in White Chocolate and Dark Chocolate? Which do you like?
Post by: another_someone on 15/12/2007 07:39:30: Quote from: Karen W. on 15/12/2007 05:06:27
What is it they use if not, a vegetable fat?

Cocoa is a vegetable, so the butter from cocoa (cocoa butter) is clearly also of vegetable origins (i.e. it came from the vegetable cocoa).
Title: What's the difference in White Chocolate and Dark Chocolate? Which do you like?
Post by: Karen W. on 15/12/2007 07:53:03: Cocoa is a vegetable??? I did not know that,....oh wait cocoa beans.. They are beans??? OH Do they grow above or below ground. I wonder if they are hard to grow and what conditions they need.. I will have to study! Thanks George I don't know why that never hit me before cause I have heard cocoa beans for goodness sakes but it had not sunk in! LOL Oh my.....
runs and hides head! Oh dear..