How to tell good chocolate from great chocolate
Chocolate making is more a science than an art: Once chocolate is melted — to be infused, blended, flavored, or shaped — the molecular bonds that give it its sheen, snap, and melt-on-your-tongue texture can only be brought together again by a skilled artisan.
Mass market truffles tend to be far sweeter than artisanal varieties made by hand because sugar is cheaper than chocolate, so it makes up the bulk of the final product. The wrong amount of flavoring can also negatively impact the emulsification, and therefore final texture of the product. Once the mixture is cooled, the best truffles are rolled by hand. Classic technique dictates that they are then dipped into or briefly rolled in tempered chocolate. This makes them more exciting to eat — it’s fun feeling that chocolate shell crack or melt on your tongue; think about the candy coating on an M&M. As a bonus, that shell also works as a preservative.
Aside from the technical know-how, a skilled chocolatier knows how to blend ingredients into chocolate so that both the added flavor and the chocolate is enhanced and one does not dominate the other. Floral flavors are especially tricky because too little of the floral essence will get lost in the chocolate’s own floral notes, and too much can make the final product taste like a cheap candle.
Filled chocolate bars, caramels, nougat, toffee, and other candies require the chocolatier to think like a confectioner and to understand the science of sugar and its properties and propensity for achieving pleasantly chewy or particularly brittle textures — depending upon desired usage.It’s like tasting anything: If you like it, it’s good! But, like wine, there is a method to discerning really fine chocolates.
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