What is the difference between cooking chocolate and 'normal' chocolate?

[MrsDoylesMole]

Or is there none really?

I think (think, mind you, not sure) that cooking choc has a higher fat content so that it melts better and it less likely to seize - you know the bit where you slightly over do it and the choc goes all hard and grainy.

cooking chocolate (the cheap supercook kind) tastes vile, but the 70% cooking chocolate tastes yummy.

I always bulk buy the better stuff when it's on special

ok thanks wilbur