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The Difference in Chocolate Varieties

Unsweetened Chocolate is pure chocolate liquor, also known as bitter or baking chocolate. It's unadulterated chocolate: ground roasted chocolate beans with no other added ingredients imparts a strong, deep chocolate flavor in all the sweets you add it to. With the addition of sugar however it's used as the base for American style layer cakes, brownies, frostings and cookies.

Couverture or Coating Chocolate is a term used for cocoa butter rich chocolates of the highest quality. Popular brands of couverture used by professional pastry chefs and often sold in gourmet and specialty food stores include: Valrhona, Callabaut, Lindt, and Schraffen-Berger. These chocolates contain a high percentage of chocolate liquor (sometimes more than 70 percent) as well as cocoa butter, at least 32–39%, are very fluid when melted and have an excellent flavor. In fact, chocolate of this quality is often compared to tasting fine wine because subtleties in taste are often apparent, especially when you taste a variety of semisweet and bittersweet couvertures with different percentages of sugar and chocolate liquor. Bittersweet Chocolate is chocolate liquor (or unsweetened chocolate) to which sugar, more cocoa butter, lecithin, and vanilla have been added. It has less sugar and more liquor than semisweet chocolate but the two are interchangeable in baking. White Chocolate isn't really considered chocolate at all due to the absence of chocolate liquor. Quality white chocolate however always contains cocoa butter. Beware if you find white chocolate made with vegetable shortening and/or labeled "confectioners' coating" which pales in comparison – taste wise – to real white chocolate. And be especially careful when melting white chocolate which is particularly fragile.

Exercise 3. Answer the questions to the text.

  1. How has the chocolate been called?

  2. What does the chocolate symbolize?

  3. Why does it have the unique ability to simultaneously both pick you up and calm you down?

  4. In what countries is chocolate consumed in copious quantities?

  5. What is chocolate made from?

  6. Why do many cooks often find they have a problem melting it properly?

  7. Where is chocolate used?

  8. What kinds of chocolate are known?

  9. What interesting facts have you learned about white chocolate?

Exercise 4. Complete the sentences using information from the text.

  1. Chocolate is made from beans that grow…

  2. Bittersweet Chocolate is chocolate liquor…

  3. Cocoa beans, as they are known in the United States, don't develop their…

  4. White Chocolate isn't really considered chocolate at all…

  5. Unsweetened Chocolate is pure chocolate liquor,…

  6. You can also use a microwave oven to melt chocolate…

  7. The roasted beans are then…

Exercise 5. Speak about the main facts described in the text according to a short plan:

  1. A sweet indulgence.

  2. The unique ability.

  3. Consumption of chocolate.

  4. A long way from cocoa bean to chocolate bar.

  5. Chocolate in cooking.

  6. The difference in chocolate varieties.

TASK 2

Exercise 1. a) Read and translate the text.

Chocolate Tips

1. Do not store chocolate in the refrigerator or freezer because when it's brought to room temperature condensation will form on the surface of the chocolate and affect its ability to melt smoothly. In fact, in most cases chocolate and water makes a disastrous combination. If you're melting chocolate all by itself and even a drop of water accidentally makes its way into the pot, you can possibly cause the chocolate mixture to "seize", meaning the chocolate will tighten and form an unworkable mass. If this should happen when you are melting chocolate add a few drops of vegetable oil to the chocolate which will allow it to relax enough that other ingredients can be mixed in.

2. Chocolate chips, also known as morsels, are fine for cookie baking but don't be tempted to melt them down and utilize them in lieu of semisweet or bittersweet chocolate. When forced to melt you'll find the consistency is thick and difficult to use because it contains significantly less cocoa butter (about 29%) than average bar chocolates.

3. It stands to reason the better tasting the chocolate you elect to use the better the chocolate dessert.

4. Be sure to choose chocolate that has a glossy, unblemished surface. Superficial imperfections such as bloom, that white dusty film, is an indication that the chocolate has been improperly stored and/or has melted and hardened once again, although it may not always affect its taste.

5. Chocolate in fine condition will snap cleanly when you break it, poor quality chocolate on the other hand will crumble.

6. Select chocolate that smells chocolately and appetizing and make sure the chocolate you buy is neither initially or subsequently stored in or around very aromatic foods like garlic, tea, coffee, or detergents, all which can affect it's flavor.

7. Last, try to buy chocolate you've had a chance to try first. Wondering how to judge a good chunk of chocolate? Just place a piece on your tongue and hold it in your mouth allowing it to slowly melt.