Picked up one of those Pound Plus bars, and I felt a bit nervous from the price alone, but many of their products are excellent and also inexpensive... whoops. I have been told I shouldn't go into so much detail when ranting about how bad something is, so: "This stuff is crappy." It's basically Hershey's Dark, but less sweet and a chalky texture.
As I type this, I'm nibbling on blocks of:
El Rey Gran Saman 70%
Scharffen Berger 62%
Valrhona Guanaja 70%
My guess is anyone that would like the TJ one, wouldn't like these 3. Completely different substances. I don't care that those nine letters are the same. (OK so expecting a $3.50 / lb chocolate to be in the same league as $16.00 / lb chocolate, that was my mistake. Duh.)
As I type this, I'm nibbling on blocks of:
El Rey Gran Saman 70%
Scharffen Berger 62%
Valrhona Guanaja 70%
My guess is anyone that would like the TJ one, wouldn't like these 3. Completely different substances. I don't care that those nine letters are the same. (OK so expecting a $3.50 / lb chocolate to be in the same league as $16.00 / lb chocolate, that was my mistake. Duh.)
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Re: :-( Trader Joe's 72%
06/29yeah, the pound plus bars aren't so great (though I wouldn't turn it down if I needed a fix), but the single origin bars are really good, fwiw.
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Re: :-( Trader Joe's 72%
07/06I wasn't so happy with the TJ's half-kilo bars, either, though I think they'd make good coating for fruit. One of these days I'll try the experiment.
