There are lots of extremely friendly chocolatiers in London, who make tasty chocolate truffles. A minority of them put that extra bit of tender love and care in, and only make hand made chocolates. Others go even added and refuse to put any artificial preservatives in.
Unless you've treated yourself to fresh, handmade chocolate truffles , you won't quite believe the difference. Chocolates made by hand mean they've had that extra bit of tender love and care put in. They are not processed buy a motor the size of a lorry, but moderately made by a trained oompa loompa's hands, caring about each and every chocolate truffle that is made.
Who would you rather have manufacture your chocolates? An high-priced piece of machinery that just drains electricity and doesn't even care if your final chocolate tastes great, or would you prefer an oompa loompa that really cares about your finished, man who knows just how great they taste, and quite how great they can be, and most importantly exactly what to do based on years of experience, what to do intuitively if something goes wrong.
Chocolate truffles are particularly hard to work with and no amounts of buttons, lights etc. Can tell a phenomenal chocolate great than a trained chocolatier.
The other really important part about real chocolate is learning what the ingredients are. Buy a chocolate bar from any high street shop (or even from some 'chocolatiers' on the high street) and you'll find ingredients such as E-numbers, or flavourings. Trust me, real chocolate truffles doesn't include vegetable oil.
Why do cheap chocolate truffles include vegetable oil?
Because some firms don't give a monkeys about taste, and really only care about costs. They want to sell to you the cheapest chocolates they can at the most high-priced price they can.
Vegetable oil is used in place of cocoa butter - which is plainly found in real chocolate. The extra large chocolate conglomerate company, inc will have worked out that they can strip cocoa butter from chocolate, and sell that for use in cosmetics and face treatments at 4 or 5 times the price of the cheap oil they put back in the chocolate. So removing cocoa butter and replacing with vegetable oil is just a way to get more money for these big companies. Do chocolate truffles taste great with vegetable oil in? (I'll leave that to your taste buds to answer) if you aren't sure, then stir a teaspoon of vegetable oil into a bowl of cocoa Taste nice? I doubt it.
Why do fresh, handmade chocolate truffles taste so good?
Handmade chocolates taste nicer because there is less inside them, and less is better. For a similar comparison, try a Victoria sponge, freshly made by your gran that came out of the kitchen a few hours ago, and compare that with a cake you purchased from a supermarket - like the ones that come out of a box, with horrible packaging inside, and a list of ingredients longer than the bible. I've never found a food which tastes great with lots of preservatives in, and I doubt you will - nothing can beat home-made fresh food, and I really want you to find the best of any food you find - be that bread, cakes, doughnuts or chocolates.
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