So true. They “won” the “Mogelpackung des Jahres 2025” award in Germany (“deceptive packaging of the year 2025”). Absolutely fuck them with a big chocolate dick.
That being said, I kinda stopped buying cheap chocolate with soy lecithine and all the other crap in it anyway. Chocolate with real cocoa butter just tastes better, I think. If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right.
There are some smaller companies that make much better quality chocolate for a still reasonable price. A fine example would be Rausch.
My problem is that “Milka whole milk” chocolate and Nutella are the best tasting foods of their category. Nothing reaches them. Not bought and not home made. Those are my 2 things that “really hurt” avoiding. Everything else is okay. My own Nutella is good, but the flavor is just not as “present” as with the original. Avoiding the use of an emulsifier also makes the final mixing very sensitive. It really starts to separate if you mix just a little bit too much (like 5 seconds of slow swirling can be the difference).
Yes, Nutella and Milka are probably the best tasting foods of their categories - if you factor in the price tag. They’re this popular for a reason.
If you don’t, I could think of a list of better tasting products than them. Problem is, they are significantly more expensive and it’s up to everyone to decide if it’s worth spending that much more.
As for chocolate, I’m willing to spend much more, because I’ve gone down that chocolate rabbit hole for a long time now. And I’ve tried a lot of the world’s best chocolate.
It’s a bit like whisky - if you’ve tasted Macallan, you don’t want to go back to Johnny Walker.
Best tasting for you maybe. Among the roughly 100 chocolate spreads on the market that aren’t Nutella, I think at least 30 taste better than Nutella. Which ones these are depends on how much chocolate or nuts you want in there
There might be none that tastes exactly like Nutella though.
I can skip Milka easily, it contains such a low amount of cacao I don’t consider it chocolate TBH. That’s my preference though, I understand tastes differ.
OBVIOUSLY when I talk about something that tastes good to me I am talking about my taste. However, the massive success of these brands is an objective measure that they taste good to a big part of the population.
What tastes better than Nutella? I have tried expensive stuff but never found something as good as my own, let alone Nutella. I want it sweet but not too sweet with lots of chocolate taste. But not too much chocolate, also dem nuts. Well pretty much like Nutella I guess. I can think about making Nutella better by adding more chocolate and nut, but then I would still be mostly eating Nutella…
For chocolate, the bitterness and slow melting make high cocoa ones taste worse for me. The same way white chocolate is too sweet and… well not chocolate. There is a sweet spot and they hit it.
So true. They “won” the “Mogelpackung des Jahres 2025” award in Germany (“deceptive packaging of the year 2025”). Absolutely fuck them with a big chocolate dick.
That being said, I kinda stopped buying cheap chocolate with soy lecithine and all the other crap in it anyway. Chocolate with real cocoa butter just tastes better, I think. If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right.
There are some smaller companies that make much better quality chocolate for a still reasonable price. A fine example would be Rausch.
My problem is that “Milka whole milk” chocolate and Nutella are the best tasting foods of their category. Nothing reaches them. Not bought and not home made. Those are my 2 things that “really hurt” avoiding. Everything else is okay. My own Nutella is good, but the flavor is just not as “present” as with the original. Avoiding the use of an emulsifier also makes the final mixing very sensitive. It really starts to separate if you mix just a little bit too much (like 5 seconds of slow swirling can be the difference).
Yes, Nutella and Milka are probably the best tasting foods of their categories - if you factor in the price tag. They’re this popular for a reason.
If you don’t, I could think of a list of better tasting products than them. Problem is, they are significantly more expensive and it’s up to everyone to decide if it’s worth spending that much more.
As for chocolate, I’m willing to spend much more, because I’ve gone down that chocolate rabbit hole for a long time now. And I’ve tried a lot of the world’s best chocolate.
It’s a bit like whisky - if you’ve tasted Macallan, you don’t want to go back to Johnny Walker.
Best tasting for you maybe. Among the roughly 100 chocolate spreads on the market that aren’t Nutella, I think at least 30 taste better than Nutella. Which ones these are depends on how much chocolate or nuts you want in there
There might be none that tastes exactly like Nutella though.
I can skip Milka easily, it contains such a low amount of cacao I don’t consider it chocolate TBH. That’s my preference though, I understand tastes differ.
OBVIOUSLY when I talk about something that tastes good to me I am talking about my taste. However, the massive success of these brands is an objective measure that they taste good to a big part of the population.
What tastes better than Nutella? I have tried expensive stuff but never found something as good as my own, let alone Nutella. I want it sweet but not too sweet with lots of chocolate taste. But not too much chocolate, also dem nuts. Well pretty much like Nutella I guess. I can think about making Nutella better by adding more chocolate and nut, but then I would still be mostly eating Nutella…
For chocolate, the bitterness and slow melting make high cocoa ones taste worse for me. The same way white chocolate is too sweet and… well not chocolate. There is a sweet spot and they hit it.