This weeks find was Columbian chocolate, specifically "Luker" brand unsweetened 100% chocolate.... I found it in an ethnic supermarket
Which ethnic supermarket specifically? This sounds exactly like the type of chocolate I've been looking for.
Can anyone recommend some other dark chocolates with low sugar content and don't have that sour taste? Bitter is fine, I much prefer bitter over sour.
Met Foods near the Jackson Heights subway station in Queens NY. I think any market with a large Columbian/Mexican/Latino customers should stock it.
ohbahsan, if you want high cacao content without the sour taste, Luker is probably your thing. There is absolutely no sour taste at all. Just this rich bitterness and massive nuttiness that hits you like a kick to the head. Comes in this ugly yellow wrapper, taped up rather crudely. My dad calls this stuff "authentically 3rd world."
Luker also makes
"Sol" brand sweetened dark chocolate (no milk, about 60% sugar). This stuff is dirt cheap ($1.99 for a half kilo block), and you get what you pay for. Upon breaking off a block, you see it packed inside with grains of sugar. It seems that they add the sugar directly into the cooling liquified cocoa-butter/cocoa-solid mixture. As the mixture cools into blocks, it doesn't have time to dissolve the grains. It doesn't taste like sweet dark chocolate; instead it tastes like you've taken a chunk of pure dark chocolate followed by a tablespoon full of grain sugar. Don't bother.
Today, I tried two things:
Ghirardelli's 100% Cacau Chocolate ($2.19). Sold in 113g bars, and labelled "baking bar", even though it looks like Ghirardelli's normal bars and is priced similarly. The texture is smooth, and the the flavour mildly bitter. But quite sour, which I don't like. The espresso nazi in me associates that sourness with old beans and water that's not hot enough. It's different for cacao, but old tastes are hard to shake off. On the plus side, Ghirardelli's is very smooth and rich. Biting off a small chunk and just holding it in your mouth is like holding a chunk of pork fat in your mouth: it takes forever to dissolve. The texture is very refined, and it melts very smoothly. Not as dry/crunchy as Meiji 99%, and not as sour either. It has none of the strong nuttiness of Luker 100%.
On a whim, I bought a 28g
stick of 100% Cococare cocoa butter ($2.79). "Ideal for dry skin and stretch marks," is what the label says. No warning against ingestion. Open up the tube and it smells overwhelmingly of pure rich chocolate. So, I take a sharp knife and shave off a very small bit. It looks pale yellow, like butter or beeswax, and has the consistency of shaved truffles or candles. It tastes.... like dried fat, with a very nice aroma of chocolate. I had no idea what to do with this stuff....
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