Jack Bishop challenges Julia to a tasting of dark chocolate chips.
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Excellent new info
I love Guittard. I now need to have chocolate without milk in it so Ghiradelli and Nestle is out for me whereas Guittard uses no dairy in their dark and semi sweet chips. (Though not technically dairy-free because they're made on the same equipment as the milk chocolate — but I can deal with possible traces.) Also they don't have soy. They use sunflower lecithin instead.
Guittard also tastes better to me than the other brands, too. I love the dark chocolate chips the best But I do sometimes like to mix the dark chocolate with semi-sweet chips in cookies – gives a great mix of dark & sweet. The only problem is then it leaves us with two open bags of the remaining chips which don't last till the next batch of cookies.
Also Guittard baking chocolate is the best — by far.
I agree with the Ghiradelli choice, but my wife (who does the shopping) always buys Nestle. I think I should do my own shopping…
Guittard ALL THE WAY! 👍AND Ghirardelli 60%!👍 Are my faves! Nestles USED to be topnotch. 👎
Guitard.
When I buy 3 bags of chocolate chips, I always say I'm doing a lot of baking. Haha 😜
Jack really fired those shots at Nestle.
Jacques Torres called. He begs to differ…about everything you just said.
After watching quite a few of these allegedly unbiased taste tests, I can't help but thing they are suspect. These people also have to pay rent on 15,000 sq ft in an historic Boston neighborhood. Mull that over.
OMG! She can’t stop eating them! 🤪
My favorite is Guittard. So glad it was included in your taste test.
I was surprised when she hated those chips so much she spit them onto her own shirt?!
Grew up on Ghirardelli but recently switched to Guittard because I find it smoother and easier to work with. I also like the rich flavor.
chocolte chips, when you go buy them, the first ingredient should be cocoa….as per chocolate bars….instead in 90% of those sold in Canada…..sugar is the first ingredient.
I just wanna know what chocolate chips does Subway use in its classic chocolate chip cookies. They are so silky and melt easily.
I have been known to buy bars of baking chocolate–100% cocoa–and eat them like other folks eat a candy bar. I am a yuge fan of dark chocolate. The darker, the better. You get a stronger chocolate flavor which who doesn't want that? And also less sugar, which is good if your trying to avoid getting diabetess.
I like darker chocolate, I have made lots of cookies with the higher percentage chips. Then I went back and made some with the Nestlé semi sweet chips. And I don’t know if it’s just me but they were so much better! So maybe I’m a classic like Julia!
Video de YouTube chevere! 🟦
YAY!! I feel validated with my choice of chocolate chips!
I only get Guittard, which is pretty clean. Corn syrup in some brands turns me off. Gardelli is not a quality brand, it uses GMOs. No thanks.
I find all levels & sizes of chocolate chips at/by ALDI's to be exceptionally good too, and you can't beat the price either.
I love Lily's. Their keto baking chips are yum!
I already use the "winner". They melt so nicely to cover my caramels and pecan turtles.
I eat sugar- free choc chips
Anyone interested in giving the Ghirardelli a try before purchasing, head over to a Jimmy John's and get their cookie.
It contains all three of their chips, dark, milk, and white.
Though I must admit the white are off puttingly hard, I assume from excess starches in them.
When making fudge out of chocolate chips, I found Ghirardelli to be the worst one for melting., even though I was using Milk Chocolate. The melting quality of Ghirardelli was more like dark chocolate, whereas Hershey's melts the best, but I don't care for the sour milk aftertaste of it, so I always end up using Nestle.
Am also a fan of Guittard. It is indeed the best in cookies. For bar chocolate, have you included Trader Joe’s Belgian dark that come in 13 oz bars? The 60% dark and the 70% baking chocolate are my go-tos for baking bars, especially for Italian recipes. Excellent tobacco and leather notes in my torta caper se.
Anything but the devil company that is Nestle
My favorite is Dove
Ambrosia semisweet chocolate chips…wonderful.
Gittard, by far, tastes best in cookies. There’s a reason that it tastes the way it does… you should try Gittard.
I'm glad to know that my favorite chocolate chip is also the best one, according to the tasters and atk.
Stop feeding your face
What about doing anything low-carb/keto without bad things like MSG in it? Using real food for real flavor
Girradhelli makes the best chips
Jack, just let Julia taste and decide her favorite before you tell her what she needs to pick! That would be a true taste test. It’s not a healthy test or an elite ingredients test. The way you do it makes it seem like she’s going to win or lose. She likes what she likes.
With the flavor profiles, this is making me wonder if mixing the brands would have any interesting effects.
Those Guittard chips are amazing. So chocolatety and creamy. Their semi sweet and bittersweet ones are both wonderful, and Whole Foods carries them.
Every video with Julia, she's stuffing her face haha, what an odd choice…
The BEST bar chocolate for baking is Dorina Za Jelo i Kuhanje Cokolada!! It's a polish dark chocolate which amazed me because it's creamy tasting like a milk chocolate. It makes THE BEST ganache, truffles, whatever recipe calls for a "baking bar" you definitely HAVE TO TRY IT!! Luckily there's a local deli that carries it but I wouldn't hesitate to order it online if it wasn't available locally. Make a cake with Droste cocoa powder & Dorina chocolate as the ganache frosting/icing an people will be asking you for the recipe!
She thought that the highest cacao % chips were actually the lowest! Makes me wonder. They probably should have tested them in cookie form, their intended use. No one just eats chocolate chips, do they?
Nestlie's semisweet chips ( not including the vanilla chips) have gone down hill! I no longer purchase them for anything!!! Same with Hershey Kisses. Horrid!! Love my Guittard and Ghirardelli <(need to improve their vanilla chips)!💗💗
The price went up with everything else because the FED has been pumping free money into the economy after the banks crashed the economy .. With trillions pumped into the economy devaluation of the currency took place
Jack is terrific, love these taste tests…