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Fran Costigan - Exploring Ingredient Substitutions
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One of the most frequent questions we get at Rouxbe is “what can I swap for X ingredient?” For example, How do arrowroot, corn, and tapioca compare? Are all these starches are a 1:1 … Read More.
Question:
Can you recommend a good vegan dipping chocolate that is delicious and, although a little pricey, it’s not extremely pricey?
— Melissa Bryant
Answer:
This is all chocolate. You have to decide, first of all, what tastes good to you because we all have different palettes and they don't all, you know, this divine chocolate, for example, 70%. Generally I use a 70 to 72%. Here is a different brand. Chocolate love. These are all vegan chocolates, 70% that says strong dark chocolate. Now one 70 can can taste more bitter or darker than another 70. I don't personally find this one super dark. This is theo, 85% that's really getting up there. It just depends who you are. And this is a green and black 70%. So really the, and this the answer is, oh yeah, this is, uh, one from Trader Joe that's quite dark. Um, the answer really is for you to buy a couple of bars and do some taste testing yourself and see what tastes good to you. We have an assignment in essential vegan desserts where it's a dipping assignment, but we're dipping. And a student can pick any three items to dip. We're dipping them in ganache instead of chocolate. Then that's a whole different thing because the ganache is made with milk too. But, you know, chocolate is not quality. Chocolate is definitely not inexpensive at all. Um, but generally speaking, it qua you're, you're paying for quality, you're not paying for fillers. You want to absolutely, you know, if, if you're buying a non milk chocolate, you have every reason to think that you're buying a vegan chocolate. But some companies are adding milk powder to their chocolates now. So shop around. Um, I've seen really nice vegan chocolates that can be melted and used for dipping in specialty shops and in supermarkets. So that would be my answer to you. Do a little, do a little tasting homework.