CoD: 99% Cocoa

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Im get a nice buzz from a few squares of Lindt's 99% chocolate bar washed down with coffee. Do we have any other lovers of super dark chocolate here?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

*raises hand*

I'm very open minded about all kinds of chocolate.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Dark chocolate is the correct way to heaven. Any other way leads to damnation.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

99% cocoa is... MOUTH BAFFLING.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Noodles, quit baiting me you cad! You know me and dark chocolate. Though I really think the 88% (or whatever that one is) is where it's at. Just a little bit sweet, and heaven with fresh strawberries.

― Kim (Kim), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 23:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate dark chocolate.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 23:29 (twenty-two years ago)

mmm tasty vegan chocolate

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 23:29 (twenty-two years ago)

dark chocolate = food of the gods.

also, it's actually GOOD for your health!

― sand.y, Thursday, 12 June 2003 01:46 (twenty-two years ago)

dark chocolate, well made is utter heaven. Something so bitter but so gorgeous.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 12 June 2003 07:16 (twenty-two years ago)

99% is taking it too far though. it's not like chocolate at all. Although giving some poor unknowing soul a good square and watching their face is fascinating!

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 12 June 2003 07:27 (twenty-two years ago)

have you ever had cocolate covered cocoa beans though, mmmmmmmmmmm.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 12 June 2003 07:34 (twenty-two years ago)

We got some 99% in France and the general consensus was NASTY. I was going to make a Mole Poblano out of it, but the kids weren't having any of my authentic Mexican chicken in chocolate sauce.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Nasty is not the word. It tasted nothing like chocolate and everything like gritty mud. Not that I eat gritty mud on a regular basis. Or indeed ever.

― Emma, Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, I thought I was a hard bastard until I tried some 99% French stuff from the Villandry. With a sweet cup of tea, it's just about tolerable, but it would almost qualify as the first step in a chocolate aversion course.

I like my dark chocolate cocoa content like I like my (Fahrenheit) summer temperatures: low to mid 70s. Any higher than that and I need to have a lie down.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Can't talk - eyes rolling in ecstacy at the thought.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Muddy dud. Silt. Ew.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I've had ordinary choc abroad that tasted like filth, so i'm open to the possibility that the 99% choc I've tasted was made by some crazed anti-choc fool with an inability to distinguish actual cocoa from common-or-garden filth.

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:43 (twenty-two years ago)

We should have melted it down and put some seeds in it to test.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 12 June 2003 09:54 (twenty-two years ago)

We'd have needed some kind of blast furnace to melt it: it was nought but sedimentary rock.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 12 June 2003 10:03 (twenty-two years ago)

We could have dissolved it in

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 12 June 2003 10:11 (twenty-two years ago)

You're a horrible lady.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 12 June 2003 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

i bought some tesco value chocolate after discovering that the cocoa and milk solids were higher than other bigger respected brands. Even the choccy loving missus was eventually turned to the cheapside

― james (james), Thursday, 12 June 2003 11:37 (twenty-two years ago)

ah! thanks for this info, james. i noticed this too when loitering in my local tesco, but the VALUE packaging put me off buying it (yes i am a choc snob). i am now going to try it.

― rener (rener), Thursday, 12 June 2003 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm a dark chocolate FIEND - really like chocolate around the 70-80% cocoa level, but this I have to check out.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Friday, 13 June 2003 01:16 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

Cocoa -- it fights heart disease! Truly the best of foods.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 05:24 (nineteen years ago)

99% is so good

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 05:40 (nineteen years ago)

i'm kind of off sweets ( :( ) but i'll break for this stuff

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 05:41 (nineteen years ago)

I tried this full on Lindt stuff at xmas - I love cooking chocolate so I thought "yeah I'm hard, and I dont like sweets, so lets have at it"

BLERGH. It was um. An acquired taste. So bitter, so... floury almost? And this was only the 80% stuff I'm ashamed to say :/

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 05:44 (nineteen years ago)

80% I love, it's almost fruity tasting. I've had a block of 99% in a kitchen cupboard for 2 years now after I tried one square and decided it was inedible.

― Raw, Uncompromising, and Noodly (noodle vague), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

I actually love the idea of eating silt-tasting chocolate. It will satisfy my need to eat mud. I like bits of cacao in homemade vanilla ice cream. Is that the same thing?

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

Ohmigod, where can I get this?

I've just put myself into "ohmigod I feel like I'm on drugs" ecstacy since ingesting 70% cocoa (I couldn't find my favourite 85% cocoa) - I can't even imagine how good 99% would be!

― Cuair Crithlonracha (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

you can get it pretty much anywhere that sells baking supplies. it's disgusting, frankly, and the aftertaste sticks with you for hours.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, it's muck.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

I tend to side with Mr. Noodles on anything involving caffeine, so I'd like to try it.

(Even though I can't have chocolate covered coffee beans as I've given up coffee)

When I was a kid, I used to love baking chocolate. I'd just nibble it, shave off the smallest amount with my teeth and savour the flavour for hours. Then I'd tell my mum it must have been the mice that did it.

― Cuair Crithlonracha (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

it's not supposed to be eaten in its block form. it's for cooking with and is fucking revolting. as ever lauren is right on matters of food. you can, however make mean drinking chocolate with this stuff and a tiny pinch of cinnamon

― sfx, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

It's bitter, bitter, bitter... but I like it with a nice, frosty porter. Maybe not 99%, but the 80%.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Kate - you could always go the whole hog and just buy 100% cocoa in a tin.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

I'd just roll around in it and dust myself.

― Cuair Crithlonracha (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

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