Old Chocolate Test
It is a bit old, but it is a decent cocoa test from a cooking mag site:
Cook's Illustrated Cocoa Powder Test
Cook's Illustrated Cocoa Powder Test
Cocoa: Commodity of the Year
It is more of a financial benchmark, but all who love chocolate have always known how valuable the cocoa bean is:
Investors in cocoa will be having a sweet Christmas as cocoa hits a 23-year high, making it the most lucrative commodity of 2008. [Read]
For a more in-depth article:
Cocoa prices on Tuesday surged to a 23-year high as speculative investors poured into the market amid concerns about dwindling supplies from Ivory Coast, by far the world’s largest producer.
Prices for cocoa have risen 70 per cent in the past year, bucking the weakness in overall commodities prices. [Read]
Again, not news to anyone who understands the true value of the beautiful bean (and the worthlessness of the dollar these days).
Investors in cocoa will be having a sweet Christmas as cocoa hits a 23-year high, making it the most lucrative commodity of 2008. [Read]
For a more in-depth article:
Cocoa prices on Tuesday surged to a 23-year high as speculative investors poured into the market amid concerns about dwindling supplies from Ivory Coast, by far the world’s largest producer.
Prices for cocoa have risen 70 per cent in the past year, bucking the weakness in overall commodities prices. [Read]
Again, not news to anyone who understands the true value of the beautiful bean (and the worthlessness of the dollar these days).
Cocoa vs. Cocoa
Are you a chocolate lover, really?
Cocoa vs. cocoa is really natural process vs. Dutch process, and in order to have a more natural cocoa flavor, you want natural process cocoa. It is not always easy finding natural process cocoa, or foods (chocolate) made with natural process cocoa, but it is one of the reasons Scharffen Berger Chocolate is sooo incredible.
Start your search for natural process cocoa, and you are on the search for real chocolate flavor.
(It has been said by some chocolate snobs, that those who like Dutch process chocolate really like the flavor of alkali, and not cocoa.)
Cocoa vs. cocoa is really natural process vs. Dutch process, and in order to have a more natural cocoa flavor, you want natural process cocoa. It is not always easy finding natural process cocoa, or foods (chocolate) made with natural process cocoa, but it is one of the reasons Scharffen Berger Chocolate is sooo incredible.
Start your search for natural process cocoa, and you are on the search for real chocolate flavor.
(It has been said by some chocolate snobs, that those who like Dutch process chocolate really like the flavor of alkali, and not cocoa.)