# I've tasted 100% cocoa. I'm never eating anything else. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 24, 2013, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-tasted-100-cocoa-im-never-eating-anything-else/661779 "2013-06-24T13:16:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-tasted-100-cocoa-im-never-eating-anything-else/661779/1 "2013-06-24T13:16:13Z")
A local store had a chocolate display and they were giving out samples of 100% cocoa. No milk, no sugar, just the real stuff, which I’ve always read was bitter and unpalatible. Well, let me tell you: THEY LIED!! That pure stuff is wonderful! The taste is great and remains in your mouth for about an hour. It’s also like pure cocaine: Total Addictive. Now I have to find me some more. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-tasted-100-cocoa-im-never-eating-anything-else/661779/2 "2013-06-24T14:32:05Z")
I started buying the 86% or 90% stuff and eating one square a night to wean myself off daily sweets cravings and it worked a charm… only now I could probably gobble down a whole bar without thinking it was bitter at all. I would love to have some 100%. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-tasted-100-cocoa-im-never-eating-anything-else/661779/3 "2013-06-24T14:37:36Z")
I’ll let you have my share. I tried 100% cocoa and hated it. I’m not fond of anything about 65%, so enjoy my share! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gus\_Gusterson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@Gus\_Gusterson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gus_Gusterson)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-tasted-100-cocoa-im-never-eating-anything-else/661779/4 "2013-06-24T18:02:56Z")
I got my wife bars in a range from 70% to 99% (I think they were 70%, 85%, 90%, and 99%). She’s a huge fan of dark chocolate but she ate one square of the 99% and hasn’t touched it since. The others are long gone. When I restock her stash now I just get the 85% and 90% bars. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-tasted-100-cocoa-im-never-eating-anything-else/661779/5 "2013-06-24T19:44:41Z")
Way back in the deep mists of history when I was a kid I used to sneak the blocks of Bakers unsweetened chocolate … 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-tasted-100-cocoa-im-never-eating-anything-else/661779/6 "2013-06-25T03:14:41Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > Way back in the deep mists of history when I was a kid I used to sneak the blocks of Bakers unsweetened chocolate … 😛 Same here. I also tried microwaving a block with some sugar hoping the stuff would melt together. Nothing really happened. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-tasted-100-cocoa-im-never-eating-anything-else/661779/7 "2013-06-25T22:09:49Z")
Oompa Loompa doobity doo… ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-tasted-100-cocoa-im-never-eating-anything-else/661779/8 "2013-06-25T23:16:45Z")
Beats a bowl of mashed-up caterpillars, that’s for sure. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-tasted-100-cocoa-im-never-eating-anything-else/661779/9 "2013-06-26T00:19:34Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Same here. > > I also tried microwaving a block with some sugar hoping the stuff would melt together. Nothing really happened. I still like nibbling on Bakers chocolate when I cook with it. But then again I don’t have that much of a sweet tooth, but I have been known to drink cider vinegar. \ For a super taster, I have the strangest liking for salty/sour/bitter. ---
**Author:** ![slowlearner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@slowlearner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slowlearner)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-tasted-100-cocoa-im-never-eating-anything-else/661779/10 "2013-06-26T01:24:01Z")
I worked in a bakery years ago and used to wander back into the store room to open up the big drum of double Dutch process cocoa just to put my face down in there and smell it. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-tasted-100-cocoa-im-never-eating-anything-else/661779/11 "2013-06-26T02:40:48Z")
I love just munching on sweetened cocoa nibs. They are a bit spendy but oh, so worth it. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-tasted-100-cocoa-im-never-eating-anything-else/661779/12 "2013-06-26T07:51:14Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > A local store had a chocolate display and they were giving out samples of 100% cocoa. No milk, no sugar, just the real stuff, which I’ve always read was bitter and unpalatible. > > Well, let me tell you: THEY LIED!! That pure stuff is wonderful! The taste is great and remains in your mouth for about an hour. > > It’s also like pure cocaine: Total Addictive. Now I have to find me some more. Glad you like it. Unsweetened baking chocolate (same thing I believe) always had a plastic mouth feel and bitter taste notes to me. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-tasted-100-cocoa-im-never-eating-anything-else/661779/13 "2013-06-26T11:57:50Z")
> [@](#): > > I’ve tasted 100% cocoa. I’m never eating anything else. You should consider a vitamin/mineral supplement as well as a fiber source in that case. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-tasted-100-cocoa-im-never-eating-anything-else/661779/14 "2013-06-27T05:08:07Z")
> [@slowlearner](#): > > I worked in a bakery years ago and used to wander back into the store room to open up the big drum of double Dutch process cocoa just to put my face down in there and smell it. That is one of 2 favorite smells, the other favorite is the first whiff of a freshly opened can of coffee. Although while out driving around today [needed to get my scrips from the base hospital] someone was grilling a steak, and it had reached that point where you get the smell of grilled meat and fat that pings something in the little carnivorous reptile brain of mine. About the only thing that would have made it perfect would be the smell of a fresh loaf of bread coming out of the oven at the same time.😛 ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-tasted-100-cocoa-im-never-eating-anything-else/661779/15 "2013-06-27T07:38:52Z")
Surprised you like the 100%. I find 70% great, 85% a bit too “dusty” and bitter and I can’t imagine that I’d find 100% at all acceptable. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-tasted-100-cocoa-im-never-eating-anything-else/661779/16 "2013-06-27T07:50:24Z")
I tried it a while back - it’s interesting, but IMO, chocolate needs the other ingredients to bring out its flavour - for me, eating 99 or 100% was like chewing roasted coffee beans - intense, interesting, but not necessarily as nice as a good espresso or a creamy latte. ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac4](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brainiac4/32/3534_2.png) [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-tasted-100-cocoa-im-never-eating-anything-else/661779/17 "2013-06-27T12:20:11Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > You should consider a vitamin/mineral supplement as well as a fiber source in that case. +1 Internets to you, sir/madam. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-tasted-100-cocoa-im-never-eating-anything-else/661779/18 "2013-06-27T14:11:44Z")
I think it takes some getting used to for a lot of people. I found the 85% stuff “too bitter” when I first tried it, but after awhile the 75% stuff tasted too sweet. I’d be interested in trying 100% and will look for it. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-tasted-100-cocoa-im-never-eating-anything-else/661779/19 "2013-06-27T14:23:50Z")
Rich athletes and Space Shuttle engineers eat the 110 percent stuff. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-tasted-100-cocoa-im-never-eating-anything-else/661779/20 "2013-06-27T15:11:14Z")
If it were 100% cocoa, wouldn’t it have to be in powdered form? There’d have to be some added fat to hold it together. I absolutely love dark chocolate, but that would be a step to far for me. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-tasted-100-cocoa-im-never-eating-anything-else/661779.md?page=2)