{"id":4187,"date":"2012-09-27T21:55:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T20:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=4187"},"modified":"2023-07-28T22:00:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T21:00:31","slug":"chocolate_tasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2012\/09\/27\/chocolate_tasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate tasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Valrhona.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nFor my birthday this year I got a tasting set of Valrhona Grands Crus chocolates. Today I had a private little chocolate tasting session.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI found <b>Alpaco<\/b> (which my brain keeps wanting to turn into Alpaca) the most interesting one, with a spicy, rich flavour. It is both &ldquo;floral and oaky&rdquo; according to the wrapper, and while I couldn&rsquo;t have picked out those overtones on my own, they were definitely there when I went looking for them, and especially the oaky hints were very nice.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Guanaja<\/b> had a higher cocoa content and a more bitter taste, which I really liked; <b>Cara&iuml;be<\/b> had hints of coffee. <b>Manjari<\/b> stood out because I experienced it as the sweetest of the four, with fruity, lemony tones.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt was interesting to experience just how different four bitter chocolates can taste, even when all have roughly the same cocoa content (64&ndash;66%, except for Guanaja&rsquo;s 70%).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nValrhona makes great chocolate but has a pretty but almost-unusable Flash-based web site that I won&#8217;t even bother to link to. Instead, go read this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocablog.com\/reviews\/valrhona-les-grands-crus\/\">review at Chocablog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my birthday this year I got a tasting set of Valrhona Grands Crus chocolates. Today I had a private little chocolate tasting session. I found Alpaco (which my brain keeps wanting to turn into Alpaca) the most interesting one, with a spicy, rich flavour. It is both &ldquo;floral and oaky&rdquo; according to the wrapper, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[745],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food_and_cooking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17536,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions\/17536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}