How Big Companies RUINED chocolate!

How Big Chocolate Companies Ruined Chocolate

Hi I am Ann Reardon, How to Cook That is my youtube channel it is filled with crazy sweet creations made just for you. This week we taste test and discover why craft chocolate tastes so much better than mass produced chocolate. How chocolate is made, where cocoa is grown, what things effect the flavour of chocolate and why store bought chocolate tastes bland. With thanks to my chocolate loving taste testers Tracey, Faye and Caleb for their help in this one.

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[akiketski]

EARLY!!! Ann's videos are honestly the best :))

[stevemills]

I run a small chocolate business for nearly a decade and have been saying this to people for years. It's nice to see someone with such a good reputation for fact finding taking it on. Thanks Ann. Have a great week.

[anna]

Interesting that coffee enthusiasts get really into different beans and their flavors and complexity, but chocolate has never been marketed like that.

[Nanagos]

"This chocolate - by comparison - tastes bland"
*pulls out the most expensive chocolate available in my local supermarket*

[Tijggie]

There's a chocolate company in my country called Chocolate Makers. They were fed up with how chocolate was done by the big companies and started their own company. They also factored in the environment in their business plan where possible. We use it in our bakery and we've had a tour through their factory and their tasting and the flavors were AMAZING!!! So happy to have been able to go with that chocolate :D.

[mightyvikingjim]

Funnily enough, the Lindt that Anne uses as the "bland" version is considered some of the higher quality stuff you can get in Canadian supermarkets!

[Oloren]

Been working in chocolate for 20 years. You nailed it. Never heard a better explanation of the difference between great chocolate and junk.

[DoggoStreamwatcher]

A few decades? ago in the US, Nestle and Hershey's lobbied to have cocoa butter taken out of the definition of chocolate. They lost, but while cocoa butter remains in a few of their flagship products, you'll find in many of them it's replaced with some alternative oil.

[rainbowslinkies]

10/10 love the "17 minute video about a food industry" format, please do more in-depth videos like this!

[signalred]

I always find it so amazing to think about how things like chocolate came to be. How someone had to harvest these beans and figure out what to do with the stuff inside them, how you have to let them ferment and dry and everything, it's really cool to think about the long history of these products and all the people that helped in making them the way that they are today.

[squishysoo]

as someone from the Philippines, I was shocked at how many varieties of apple they knew, but then when i think about it, i can also name several varieties of bananas easily 😂😂

[indulgentquagmire]

I once bought a single origin chocolate out of curiosity at an elitist organic store, and until then I believed chocolate always needed sugar to make it taste good, they were delicious without being overtly sweet. They were so expensive though!

[lbatemon]

I had a roommate in college that totally "ruined" me on cheaper chocolate after introducing me to these $5-6-7 bars from health food stores. Like everything, you get what you pay for. But instead of just inhaling those expensive bars like I was known to do with cheaper bars and still not feel satiated, the expensive ones satisfy me with just a few nibbles or a square. It's about quality over quantity!

[jbenjamin]

As a mexican form the state of Tabasco, we are very proud of our chocolate! it was common in the past to grind and make chocolate at home, my grandma used to do it, so i was very familiar with the real flavor of cocoa beans and chocolate. Sometimes when tasting cheap or very procesed chocolate feel weird and some of my friends tend to call me a snob because i'm very exigent with the flavor of chocolate, but when they taste what is a real and good chocolate, they find out why i'm like that hahaha thanks a lot for sharing this knowledge!!!

[ArcadiaP]

I hadn't realized how complex the process was to make the end product for the cacao beans. It honestly sounds a lot like making cheese, with all the enzymes and fermentation processes. No wonder it's so complex and varied in all the different regions of the world.

[AzarakiDragon]

0:53 The way he says "no" like he thinks you're about to spring some 5-minute-crafts chocolate on him is so funny

[vaskauzunova]

if you put together a box of labelled samples from this video so we could taste them together while watching and compare, i'd pay crazy money for that, Ann! you've piqued my curiosity

[rachelong]

It's so funny that Dave and the boys are up to taste just about any cooking "hack" monstrosity, and then the one time there's just genuinely good chocolate, they're like, "Meh." 🤣

[pancake]

When I was 8 my family was in Honduras for a vacation, and one day we visited a cocoa farm that was set up to show tourists some of the process of cocoa growing. I still remember being fascinated (and a little grossed out) seeing a pod cracked open and these slimy white beans come out 😂 blew my tiny child mind that chocolate could have ever started from that point. This video really brought me back to that moment, even almost 2 decades later. Hope that farm is still doing well

[rbmarbella]

When we were kids (Philippines) and was introduced to 'Quik' Chocolate drink, were were like, "are we drinking shredded paper soup"???

After years of enjoying chocolate from our Grandma's tree... i knew i know how Chocolate should taste!