Are These the Best and Worst Chocolate Boxes?


A reader and friend brought this Consumer Reports article to my attention so I wanted to share it with you all.

Read it and leave your own thoughts and comments.

Here are some of mine:

     None of their top picks are familiar to me yet except for Vosages, and then it is difficult to find where I live. I have difficulty believing that the testers could have found them easily either.

    They were quite mean in some of their comments.

    The reviewers seem to value looks and taste (that article lays that flat out), but appear to have ignored the other three senses we include here in our reviews. How did it feel in the mouth? How did it smell? Did it make any sound when they took a bite or chewed?

     How did they test the chocolate? What was the process? Did they eat or drink anything else? How much time did they leave between individual pieces? We lay that out here on The Chocolate Cult. You know we never have other food and only water when we do testing. We wait and make sure our palates are clean before moving onto the next piece.


Comments

Rhannon said…
Interesting, but all out of price range mostly. Surprised they didn't mention De Brand. I kind of agree with them on Godiva. I'd love to try the one that was single sourced purist type chocolates.
August 12, 2023 at 12:12 PM
The Chocolate Priestess said…
The price range was a bit extreme, though they did have the lower priced boxes. I don't think most of the brands they covered are easily found in most areas, either. My advice for trying single origin, is to get them one piece at a time or in a non-gifting option; that is less expensive plus you can really focus on the taste of each one.
August 14, 2023 at 9:02 AM

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