2006-09-19 04:23:05 · 17 answers · asked by kimberbenton 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
Cooking chocolate is made with hardened vegetable fat which does not require 'tempering' to avoid white streaks developing which would be the case with 'regular' chocolate which is cocoa butter based.
It is usually sold as a low cost item compared with regular chocolate and tends to be made with cheaper ingredients such as cocoa powder rather than cocoa mass - ground beans - and there is a tendency to add wheat flour and whey powder instead of milk powder to cheapen it further.
Trust me - I was a Technical Manager in a chocolate factory!
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2006-09-19 19:28:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its much lower grade usually with less cocao in it.
Good plain dark chocolate should contain at least 70% cocoa (solids + butter), whereas milk chocolate should contains up to 50%. If you look at cooking chocolate some only contain about 7%
2006-09-19 04:39:46 · answer #2 · answered by Scottish Girl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cooking chocolate usually doesn't have sugar added. Regular chocolate does. I wouldn't eat unsweetened cooking chocolate. :b
2006-09-19 04:26:11 · answer #3 · answered by terra_chan 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cooking chocolate, or Baker's Choclate. is either unsweetened or bittersweet. It's not like eating a Hershey Bar. Sugar scorches so it's better to melt unsweetened choclate. It's ment to be sweetened later.
2006-09-19 04:30:37 · answer #4 · answered by ~mj~ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Baker's chocolate has little to no sugar added to it. Therefore, it's not fit to eat by itself. The higher the cocoa content the less sweet it is. Good Luck!
2006-09-19 04:26:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cooking chocolate usually has very little sugar in it. Since most recipies call for sugar, it isn't needed.
2006-09-19 04:25:49 · answer #6 · answered by Serving Jesus 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cooking chocolate has a higher cocao content, this means a higher fat content which stops the choclate from splitting when it is heated up.
2006-09-19 04:30:35 · answer #7 · answered by scrappy_wrongness 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cooking chocolate is a lot stronger and dosent taste nice to eat unless used in cooking
2006-09-19 04:33:14 · answer #8 · answered by patricia b 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think cooking chocolate is of higher quality, less sugar and higher cocoa content. It's also made to melt better.
2006-09-19 04:27:04 · answer #9 · answered by Greeneyed 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
cooking chocolate usually has less sugar content
2006-09-19 04:31:48 · answer #10 · answered by fairly smart 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋