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Is chocolate best at room temperature or from the fridge?

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llamajohn · 07/08/2024 14:54

Just talking about your every day .I'll chocolate here. No caramels or anything like that?

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Izzabellasasperella · 07/08/2024 21:40

After Eights are delicious straight from the fridge.

marmaladeandpeanutbutter · 07/08/2024 21:45

Fridge.

TheWayOfTheWorld · 07/08/2024 21:52

Fridge. And it never has a white bloom on it.

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Chickadeep · 07/08/2024 21:55

I'm a qualified chocolate taster.
It should never go in the fridge. But do what makes you happy.

GreatTheCat · 07/08/2024 22:13

Freezer. Every bit of chocolate that enters my house.

familyissues12345 · 07/08/2024 22:16

Chickadeep · 07/08/2024 21:55

I'm a qualified chocolate taster.
It should never go in the fridge. But do what makes you happy.

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I need that job.

Definitely out of the fridge!

WeWillGetThereInTheEnd · 08/08/2024 09:33

JoalGk · 07/08/2024 20:57

Room temp, it’s endothermic so absorbs heat from its surroundings so it won’t hit the right mouth melt point if eaten from the fridge.

It’s the mouth melt that I don’t like! I like it crunchy - especially ones like Flakes, Turkish Delight, Crunchies….

marshmallowfinder · 08/08/2024 09:42

Room temperature!

IBegYourBiggestPardon · 08/08/2024 10:32

Room temperature. It's the only way!!

Chickadeep · 09/08/2024 08:44

familyissues12345 · 07/08/2024 22:16

I need that job.

Definitely out of the fridge!

It's pretty wonderful!

Chickadeep · 09/08/2024 08:45

familyissues12345 · 07/08/2024 22:16

I need that job.

Definitely out of the fridge!

It's pretty wonderful!

GasPanic · 09/08/2024 10:28

Chocolate companies spend a lot of time engineering the fat blend of chocolates so it has a high solid proportion at room temperature but fully liquid at body temperature so that chocolate melts in your mouth.

If you put chocolate in the fridge it will just take longer to make this transition when you put it in your mouth, but as it warms up the effect will be the same - assuming no one is keen on gulping down chunks of hard cold chocolate - it will just stay in your mouth longer to warm up.

I guess the spatial melt profile of it will be different, for example a lump of chocolate at a higher temperature will probably melt all at once, whereas a lump of frozen chocolate will start melting at the edge first and take longer for the entire lump to become molten in your mouth, so more like sucking a sweet than the near instantaneous transition of the whole lump from solid to liquid.

Fat bloom is kind of interesting The fat in chocolate can exist in different crystalline states called polymorphs. A bit like carbon, that can exist as graphite or diamond. In chocolate the product is made from a less stable polymorph. When the chocolate is melted and then recrystallises it may form into a different polymorph (the more stable one) with a different colour (this is the change in colour you see). The effect is harmless but is considered by consumers to be un apeallling.

There are people who spend their whole lives doing this sort of stuff. Carefully engineering the formulation of chocolate so it performs in a particular way in your mouth. I can imagine they are horrified by people bunging the stuff in the freezer before eating it and ruining the mouth feel effects they are trying to generate.

TheWayOfTheWorld · 10/08/2024 11:38

@GasPanic some of us don't want the meltly mouth feel though.

I like mine to snap so I can chomp/crunch on it and it's not in my mouth long enough to melt properly (unless it's a truffle, I'm not a complete monster)

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