MSE Forum Poll: Do you prefer to eat chocolate that has or has not been in the fridge?

MSE_Daniel

For those of you who are chocolate lovers, this week's poll is seeking your votes on how you like your confectionary treat... or more specifically, what temperature?

Does it taste better a little on the chilled side, or do you prefer a more melty experience with a room temperature choccie? Fridge or cupboard?

Or is there another way you prefer? (Let us know in the comments!)

kimwp

Good chocolate is designed to melt in your mouth, to get the taste. Source: swiss chocolate factory tour guide

Ayr_Rage

Cool room temperature.

Rob5342

Definitely room temperature so it melts as you eat it and the flavour comes out. Chocolate from the fridge is completely tasteless.

Mee

Depends on whether it is dark or milk chocolate - I enjoy a chilled dark (75/85%)  and a room temperature milk chocolate. Though I rarely eat milk chocolate.

twopenny

The dark chocolate I eat stays hard and melts in the mouth.
One is made locally with bars from single cacao estates which gives each a different flavour. Like wine.... Yup, I m a chocolate connoisseur or snob 😉
Milk chocolate Swiss or Polish.
Fun though.

jon81uk

Depends on the chocolate. Better quality stuff I keep room temperature. Cadbury Dairy Milk is in the fridge and then left to warm slightly before eating.

Jemma01

I like the crunch of the chilled chocolate, so it makes its way to the fridge from the shopping bags 🛍️ 😆 

lib21by

Some of us are not allowed chocolate because of the potassium content. None has passed my lips for the last 7 years. I look at it this way - all those who eat chocolate have an expensive hobby - I suggest that you will all save a lot of money by stopping eating it.

Murphybear

kimwp said:

Good chocolate is designed to melt in your mouth, to get the taste. Source: swiss chocolate factory tour guide

I went on a tour of a chocolate factory on a school trip in Switzerland when I was about 12, I’m 73 now 😺. I remember it well because as we went round we were told we could sample as much as we liked.  A lot of it was at the “gooey” stage and was a bit sickly, especially if we ate too much.  😹

I find chocolate that is refrigerated can be a bit tasteless

I try not to eat much chocolate not so much to keep the calories down but because I have diabetes.  My diabetes nurse said I can have some occasionally so we only have chocolate in the house around Christmas time.  I buy my husband a Hotel Chocolat advent calendar so he eats most of it.   I don’t mind because he buys me a beauty advent calendar 😺

Just_Visiting

Like a good mature cheddar cheese, refrigerated chocolate just tastes of 'coldness'.

In each case, allowing it to get to room temperature enhances (and strengthens) the flavour(s).

The same is true of most other food - by all means, store such food in a fridge, but never ever eat directly from it. (The only exceptions - for me - are milk, yoghurt, etc., but that is because it is the very coldness of the items that make them palatable and if they weren't refrigerated, I'd rather go without!)