To think that chocolate should be kept in the cupboard

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And not in the fridge? Dp thinks it should be kept in the fridge but I disagree- I have told him the verdict relies upon the great women of mums net!

Always fridge. Hate warm chocolate. Chocolate Digestives-in the freezer.

I usually keep it in the cupboard and then put it in the fridge 10 minutes or so before I want to eat it. It needs to be cool but not rock hard.

Aren't vending machines usually slightly refrigerated? I wonder if there's a market for a special at home chocolate cooler.

Never fridge, it goes brittle and loses it's flavour.

I hate it when I walk into a shop and see the sun shining on the chocolate display.

Fridge!

Depends on the chocolate. Cheap chocolate goes in the fridge to improve it. Proper chocolate stays in the cupboard where it can maintain its quality.

It depends on the chocolate. Slabs of Fruit and Nut should be chilled as should the little Kinder chocolate bars. Everything else in the cupboard.

Damson is spot on.

I think keeping it is wrong.

only shit chocolate is unaffected by keeping in the fridge.

This is no exaggeration when I say LTB.

Haven't had a chocolate digestive in years...

Cupboard. It's lush all melty and everything.

I dip mine in my cuppa.

You are being vair vair vair unreasonable fridge nods knowingly

Fridge. Love the extra snap. And what ? goes white? who has chocolate that lasts that long...

Def not in the fridge... I keep it in the secret drawer. DH puts it in the freezer!!

It melts in this weather ime.
store in fridge.
Leave out of fridge for 48 minutes before eating.

love51

Its not true about the "good" chocolate and "shit" chocolate divide re: refrigeration. Chocolates from a chocolatier are stored in a chiller.
Our local independent place threw away an entire "batch" when their chiller packed up last summer

And, at the risk of being utterly dull, the "bloom" on chocolate ("going white") is usually caused by the choc beingstored in too warm an environment, causing the fat to separate.

Chocolates from a chocolatier are stored in a chiller.

Chocolates are not chocolate in bars, in the sense that they have usually fillings that can spoil in warm temperatures.

Bloom on chocolate come from a change in temperature, hot or cold, but because it's in room temp in shops putting it in the fridge brings the change and causes it to go white.

Fridge only in countries where choc woukd melt, otherwise its a cool cupboard!!!!

Fridge - especially wispas. I wish I had a nice cold wispa right now.

Cupboard! Horrible from fridge, not melty enough. My DH goes one further and keeps it in the freezer (freak).

Cupboard, every time. I have a partner who believes in fridge chocolate and we once had a full blown row over it.

My kitchen is too warm for cupboard (Aga) so it goes in the fridge to maintain structural integrity. Never had any go white. It goes perfectly melts when left in the tongue - are some of you biting and swallowing without tasting and savouring? YABU.