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00:00 Intro
00:18 Hershey’s Kitchens Special Dark Mildly Sweet Chocolate Chips
1:22 Scharffen Berger 62% Semisweet Baking Chunks
2:20 Hershey’s Kitchens Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
3:02 Ghirardelli Semisweet Premium Baking Chips 44%
3:28 Nestlé Toll House Dark Chocolate Morsels 53%
4:10 Nestlé Toll House Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chunks
5:05 Barry Callebaut Semisweet Chocolate Chips
5:51 Guittard Semisweet Chocolate Baking Chips 46%
6:50 Guittard Extra Dark Chocolate Chips 63%
7:47 Nestlé Toll House Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels
8:26 Guittard Super Cookie Chips Semisweet Chocolate Chips 48%
9:25 Scharffen Berger 70% Bittersweet Baking Chunks
10:15 Ghirardelli 60% Premium Baking Chips
11:02 Official Results
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Which Chocolate Chip Makes the Best Cookies? | The Taste Test
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Guittard milk chocolate is my go to, ideally the baking wafers. Haven't had anything close.
I like many of Ghirardelli's chocolate bars and truffles. (I like their's better than Godiva's chocolates.)
I haven't made chocolate chip cookies for years, so I have no favorite brand now.
When I was makine cookies,
one of my top favorites was oatmeal raisin chocolate chip.
The girl in black needs to stop using the word "yea"…
The weird editing made this harder to follow than it should have been
Best is a combo of dark, semi, and milk of Guittard and Ghirardelli.
I tend to use a mix of the 60% Ghiradelli chips with the 72% Ghiradelli chips (which are not rated for some reason)
Agreed
Trade Joes semi sweet.
I appreciate the points on shape! Recently Ive been baking with Aldi specially selected Belgian semi chunks. 😋
I exclusively use the Ghirardelli 60% myself and both the baking chips and the bar form for various desserts. I know there's better chocolate out there but for day to day applications you can't beat them, they're hands down the best for those.
Ohh I'm so glad the one I always buy won! I was getting really nervous there…
Yay!!! Great to see Ashley! I haven't seen you a bit! Glad for this test! I use minis for cookies because I hated a mouthful unbalanced chocolate/dough ratio.
Here in Canada, I use the 70% Chipits chunks, as that is the most accessible, but I do find i run into the issue mentioned of uneven distribution.
I think I can get Ghiradelli if I hunt for it, so I'm going to try that next time I get chocolate chips!!
I think I'll always keep my copy of Anachrony. It's such a unique theme and a great blend of mechanisms. And people always see that box and ask to play it. I love Le Havre too, but it's a tough sell when trying to get people to agree on a game.
How about pizza pans and store bought pizza sauce??
This is my favorite chips, too!! ❤
I often mix the Ghirardelli 60% with the G semisweet for a nice balance.
I buy Endangered Species 88% Cacao bars and chop them and make cookies 🙂 I think we like different things.
Too much hair in the kitchen
Guittard is great!
Snobs. I don't like dark chocalate.