Tasting Expert Reveals Top Picks for Milk Chocolate Chips
Tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges host Bridget Lancaster to a tasting of milk chocolate chips.
Read the full taste test of milk chocolate chips:
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Used to buy the Guittard milk chocolate chips in bulk when ordering from Blooming Prairie warehouse with a buying club years ago. I would stick 2 or 3 in the center of our banana muffins. (But too easy to stick in my mouth as they were so perfect and irresistible.) They are excellent but really hard to find where I live.
I mix the semisweet CHUNKS, with CHIPS in a half and half of milk and bitter sweet. its amazing.
I haven't been able to eat chocolate in 22 years due to GERD. Luckily my kids don't share the gene. It would be great to see an episode of ATK about what might be better than chocolate.
Definitely prefer Guittard. Way better than that other chocolate company from San Francisco imo.
Nestle Toll House. I was a 24yr old stay at home mom with three little ones and bought the bag and other ingredients. Not knowing any better I used imitation vanilla but they were still delicious. I mixed it all by hand with a wooden spoon in a big bowl. My mom who didn’t bake thought I was a genius. 😆 After that I baked all our Christmas cookies. Forty years later I’ll stick to Nestle for the memories.
Costco's Kirkland brand is really good, they have 51% cacao. I've tried all the ones they tested and Costco brand is better
Why not just make a chocolate cookie then?
I recently switched to Kirkland chips from Costco… wondering how they’d rate, we love them.
There's chocolate chips for everybody, but apparently no microchips 😩
"Guittard" there's no way I'm saying that right…
Good that Nestle didn't win besides nostalgia — Such a shameful company. We've had great results with Ghirardelli for a few years. Great for a cookies and handfuls for a snack — good quality powders too.
I use the Ghirardelli to make fudge and people always love it and are surprised I used milk chocolate.
I like the guy, a very passionate person, but i feel like she's kinda mocking and disrespecting him and somehow i don't like her.
I think I need to test this myself. Maybe twice. Maybe three times. Don't wanna rush into a judgement.
A spoon full of Nutella isn't bad either.
She picked my favorite milk chocolate chip! I’ve bought lots of different brands during quarantine (nestles, ghiradelli, Hershey, Whole Foods) and guittard was my favorite by far. OTOH, I don’t put them in cookies…
If I'm using bigger chocolate chips in a chocolate chip cookie I just add a little more than the recipe calls for and sometimes they'll even press some extra chips into the top of the cookie before it's baked
Wait, what? I never thought I'd see them bother with milk chocolate. I thought all people in media or professional circles hated themselves and only liked bitter pointless chocolate.
I buy whatever that's on sale
Plech
ATK: Which milk chocolate chip cookie is best?
Bridget: Yes
"Chocolate evenly distributed in every bite"
That would have been a good 11th commandment.
Guittard chocolate is used in See’s candy…Hershey’s chocolate is made with Amish milk
All sound good, but I still prefer my Mom's recipe using Hersey's semi-sweet chocolate chips. & no, it isn't the recipe on the bag.
A few years ago I used to be loyal to Ghiradelli 60% chocolate chips until one day I noticed they tasted burnt. I thought it was a bad batch of chocolate chips, but no, I purchased a further two bags and they still tasted burnt. Either the manufacturing process changed or my sense of taste and smell changed! After that I stopped buying it, and now I no longer have brand loyalty. Currently I’m enjoying Aldi ‘Specially Selected Belgian’ semi-sweet and dark chocolate chunks. They are so good I eat them straight from the bag.
Atta girl!: "I'm taking these with me!"
I agree with Bridget. A mix of big and little chips.
So what you're saying by "sophisticated" is you like stuff that doesn't taste good.
Milk chocolate taste like vomit
I use the Tollhouse recipe, but usually Hershey chips 😎
Disappointed in ATK today. In a tasting with such close margins, shouldn’t the deciding factor be the brand produced most humanely and sustainably? It’s no secret that the vast majority of chocolate is made with environmental devastation at the expense of human lives.
ATK has a responsibility to wield their influence with much better discretion.
He said so himself, weights weren’t the same when using cup measurements. Just use a scale to even out the playing field, this felt more like a comparison of chocolate chip shape than the brand itself.
If the cookie itself is delicious and magical, I love the nuance the larger chips bring.
2:00 Reminds me of that scene from Casino where DeNiro's talking about the Blueberry muffins.