Chocolate Tasting
Learning to Taste Like a Chocolatier
What to have in front of you
I won't tell you what brands to buy — for tasting you need to taste things that sound good to you. Tick these off as you gather them.
Look for napolitains — small bars of different types of chocolate, sold in sets of different flavours or just one, so you can taste multiple varieties for a small amount of money.
Any flaky finishing salt and any black lava salt will work — these are just the two I keep on the bench.
How to taste
Work through the senses in order — observe first, taste last. The words come more easily when you slow the process down.
Practice
A tasting to work through on your own, and an experiment to post when you're ready to compare with everyone else.
Three chocolates, side by side
Taste the three chocolates side by side and create notes.
Chocolate & salt
Taste three chocolates against three salts and record what each pairing does. Post your grid to see everyone else's.