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Thread: What's up with my chocolate?
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2012-11-08, 08:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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What's up with my chocolate?
So I found a couple of bars of dark chocolate in a zip-lock bag on a low shelf by my desk. Oddly, the chocolate has turned a lighter shade of brown in a sort of bubbly pattern. It tastes more or less fine, a bit off maybe, and the texture's kind of unusual. I've heard that improperly stored chocolate can develop white spots of fat or sugar coming out of the mix, but couldn't find anything on this. Any ideas what's up with this chocolate?
Jude P.
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2012-11-08, 08:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What's up with my chocolate?
How old is it?
I've found that happen to me with chocolate that's old and past it's use-by date.
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2012-11-08, 08:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What's up with my chocolate?
I believe it's the same thing. "Chocolate bloom", as it's called, can be either white or a more beige-y color. Here's a quick link I found from googling, with a pretty good image of a light brown bubbling pattern that it says is from bloom.
http://www.fearlesschocolate.com/sci...ocolate-bloom/Avatar by araveugnitsuga.
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2012-11-08, 08:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What's up with my chocolate?
Does the place you store you chocolate ever get hot, or is it near a heat source? Is your computer blowing exhaust on it? Heat causes chocolate bloom.
Just be sure it's bloom and not mold; I had some chocolate which was highly suspect because it was in a room that ended up getting a mold infestation.I used to live in a world of terrible beauty, and then the beauty left.
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2012-11-08, 09:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What's up with my chocolate?
...Chocolate expires? I don't know how old it is, I just figured that as it tasted more or less okay it was probably fine. (My mother actually bet money I wouldn't survive to eighteen. Hah! Showed her.)
Ah, okay. The couple of sites I saw all said it was always white. Yeah, it looks sort of like that. I think it might be a combination of the two, as the texture changed (sugar bloom) and it was heated (fat bloom).
That place was normally near room temperature, but I think I vaguely recall leaving that bag of chocolate bars in a car sitting in the sun.Jude P.
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2012-11-08, 09:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-08, 09:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What's up with my chocolate?
These supposedly expired sometime between six months and a year ago, depending on the individual bar.
Jude P.
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2012-11-08, 09:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What's up with my chocolate?
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2012-11-08, 10:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-08, 10:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What's up with my chocolate?
As long as they're not too bad of a brand they'll taste ok, not as good as they would have, but still something that's more pleasant to eat than unpleasant if you want to get utilitarian about it. Might be a bit dry and grainy, depending.
That's assuming they haven't gone bad in some legitimate way, but as long as nothing too crazy happened to them and they weren't exposed to the open air or something they should still be fine if that's all that's passed and the packaging isn't rubbish.
And, well, if they're not quite up to snuff you can just melt them down for some obscene purpose. Or hot chocolate.
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2012-11-08, 11:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-09, 02:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What's up with my chocolate?
As far as i know, chocolate starts to bloom after a couple of years. It iiirc means that the cocoa butter 'sweats' out of the chocolate. Only when contaminated heavily can chocolate go mouldy. It has an expiration date for the sam reason vinegar has one: its edible and it is sold so by law it should have one (even if it makes no sense whatsoever).
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2012-11-09, 03:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-09, 03:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-09, 04:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What's up with my chocolate?
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2012-11-09, 04:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-09, 04:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-09, 04:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-09, 10:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What's up with my chocolate?
I expected you to go with this.
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2012-11-09, 10:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-09, 11:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What's up with my chocolate?
I actually have a bit of a funny story here. Ever since I was a little boy, I had this teddy with what seemed like a heart - tipped wand or something. Jump to my teenage years, and I discovered that the heart is actually a heart - shaped chocolate in wrapping and on a stick. It looked just fine. So I ate it. And it tasted ok.
Last edited by Drakeburn; 2012-11-09 at 11:36 PM.
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2012-11-10, 04:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What's up with my chocolate?
Chocolate, according to the Cadbury Factory Tour (chocolate factory located in the city I went to uni at, they did tours), has a shelf-life of 52 weeks, provided it's stored correctly - and by which, I mean at a temperature lower than room temperature. Their chocolate storage facility was actually fairly cool. (Okay, so this particular company's chocolate has a shelf-life of 52 weeks... I have no idea about other companies.)
Your chocolate is probably still edible provided that, as someone else said, it's not mold, but it may not taste that good any more. I've eaten chocolate with that kind of gunk on it, and while it's still fine to eat, it never tastes very good.Last edited by Lady Moreta; 2012-11-10 at 04:04 AM.
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2012-11-10, 11:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What's up with my chocolate?
If you're in the rough vicinity, you could always pick up some new chocolate at Hershey World (Hershey, Pennsylvania). The most diabetic place on earth. Actually it's "the sweetest place on earth", but if you sampled everything on the same day....
Fresh chocolate is awesome. And they give you free samples every time you go on a ride.I used to live in a world of terrible beauty, and then the beauty left.
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2012-11-10, 11:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What's up with my chocolate?
I'm not a huge fan of Hershey's chocolate, actually. It's usually too sweet for me.
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2012-11-10, 11:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What's up with my chocolate?
I enjoy chocolate every once in a while. And whenever I get a Hershey's bar, I take a piece, put it in my mouth, and let it melt in there.
But for me, it's either Hershey's, Crunch, or Three Musketeers.
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2012-11-10, 09:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What's up with my chocolate?
I found some fresh 85% Lindt on sale at the supermarket. I'll compare it to the old stuff I have here later.
Jude P.
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2012-11-17, 04:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What's up with my chocolate?
Got new chocolate. New chocolate is indeed vastly superior to old chocolate.
Jude P.
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2012-11-17, 07:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What's up with my chocolate?
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of the trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise.
-Camus, An Absurd Reasoning
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2012-11-17, 11:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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