  Chocolate Tasting: Snap It!  TEXTURE is enormously important
to the chocolate experience. A smooth and creamy melt-in-your-
mouth texture is so seductive, that many people are more
influenced by texture than by flavor.  Begin by listening for
the snap! It's the first clue to texture. Snap is the feel and
sound of a piece of chocolate when you first break it or bite
into it. Snap is easier to appreciate in a thin bar than a thick
chunk of chocolate. Snap is a function of the amount and quality
of the cocoa butter in the chocolate, how finely ground the
chocolate particles are, and how well the chocolate was
tempered.  White and milk chocolate bars have a gentler snap
than dark or semi-sweet chocolate because their milk and butter
fat content make them naturally softer.  < Previous  Next >