Chocolate...?

MooMoo444 · 31 Mar 2016 at 12:25

The nobbly huge egg in the multipack looks good.

beh · 31 Mar 2016 at 12:50

Raymond Lin said:
£80 !

3 days ago it would be £160.

Transaction utility :eek:

Raymond Lin · 31 Mar 2016 at 12:55

MooMoo444 said:
The nobbly huge egg in the multipack looks good.

That's the ostrich egg shell, a normal one with fillings retails at £75! This box was £25 for all the shells so it's quite good value, even when doing weight ratio to cost vs even Lindt or Green and black it's good value.

BennyC · 31 Mar 2016 at 20:03

I always consider the £/g.

The 'Sandwich' style chocolate they released this year is woefully poor value. Barely over 130g for £10.

There's a premium....and then there's just taking the ****.

Raymond Lin · 31 Mar 2016 at 22:10

BennyC said:
I always consider the £/g.

The 'Sandwich' style chocolate they released this year is woefully poor value. Barely over 130g for £10.

There's a premium....and then there's just taking the ****.

I saw that, even at £5 I felt cheated.

The All Out Eggs in One Basket is 1.195kg, at £25 it works out at 47.8g per £1.

Green & Black is £2 per 100g bars. Lindt is £1.89 per 100g bars. So it makes that eggs basket pretty good value.

Lartyconshayo · 31 Mar 2016 at 22:13

chocolate tree are a good mom n pop operation in Edinburgh. http://www.choctree.co.uk/

jpaul · 1 Apr 2016 at 12:07

So ( in a similar vein to wine threads ), what do you recommend for good value/everyday chocolate from supermarkets ?

Personally I find the Aldi Moser Roth 85% at £1.10 as good as Lindt 80/90% typically nearer £1.50
whilst for white chocolate Lidl white chocolate only about 40p ! close in quality to Lindt variety (with similar low cocoa butter content ~30%)

I concede Green and Blacks is typically nicer than Lindt but £2

jpaul

tom_e · 1 Apr 2016 at 12:10

jpaul said:
So ( in a similar vein to wine threads ), what do you recommend for good value/everyday chocolate from supermarkets ?

Personally I find the Aldi Moser Roth 85% at £1.10 as good as Lindt 80/90% typically nearer £1.50
whilst for white chocolate Lidl white chocolate only about 40p ! close in quality to Lindt variety (with similar low cocoa butter content ~30%)

I concede Green and Blacks is typically nicer than Lindt but £2

jpaul

The aldi chocolate in general I find pretty tasty and well priced to be honest.

MooMoo444 · 1 Apr 2016 at 12:19

Lartyconshayo said:
chocolate tree are a good mom n pop operation in Edinburgh. http://www.choctree.co.uk/

These sound nice. Well tempted by the sea salt/caramel and the rose/vanilla.

BennyC · 1 Apr 2016 at 12:22

Raymond Lin said:
I saw that, even at £5 I felt cheated.

The All Out Eggs in One Basket is 1.195kg, at £25 it works out at 47.8g per £1.

Green & Black is £2 per 100g bars. Lindt is £1.89 per 100g bars. So it makes that eggs basket pretty good value.

Yep.

Interestingly last year the G&B 'Tasting Collection' Egg, with 24 mini bars in all their flavours, didn't carry any/much premium at all. Think I paid £12 for about 450g or 525g of chocolate.

jpaul · 1 Apr 2016 at 14:08

Raymond Lin said:
I saw that, even at £5 I felt cheated.

The All Out Eggs in One Basket is 1.195kg, at £25 it works out at 47.8g per £1.

Green & Black is £2 per 100g bars. Lindt is £1.89 per 100g bars. So it makes that eggs basket pretty good value.

sorry I am skeptical about the potential weight of cookies in this one, from description
they'll discover a gigantic cookie-crammed milk chocolate Ostrich half-shell
there are some extensive hotchoc reviews here but did not find this
eg bunny

Another supermarket variety I liked/discovered was 65% Waitrose Seriously rich dark chocolate (they gave me for free in my first waitrose delivery) currently 1.89/100g

Raymond Lin · 1 Apr 2016 at 14:23

I'll confirm the weigh for you this evening with photos but for now...Easter is officially over.

jpaul · 1 Apr 2016 at 15:06

That was my bunny ... he looked happy in the review !

cruel and unusual punishment ... still it could have been bunny melting feet
first in a pool of chocolate .. terminator'esque

Craig1981 · 1 Apr 2016 at 15:57

If a chocolate bunny can learn the value of human life.... maybe we can too....

*cue Terminator 2 theme*

Lartyconshayo · 1 Apr 2016 at 16:29

MooMoo444 said:
These sound nice. Well tempted by the sea salt/caramel and the rose/vanilla.

yeah they are good - they travel out to the farms where they source their pods from and aim to give money to the farmers. http://www.choctree.co.uk/blog/

They do a chocolate sorbet that blows any ice cream out of the water. Can't do delivery on that though

Raymond Lin · 1 Apr 2016 at 20:32

So, this is that box.

And the whole thing on scale.

jpaul · 1 Apr 2016 at 21:24

Raymond - I cannot see an attachment - did something go wrong
... but 64K$ question how many grams did the cookie monster get to eat ?

Raymond Lin · 1 Apr 2016 at 21:55

I've only ate the content of 1 egg so far, it's been 4 days. None of the eggs has been cracked yet.

Raymond Lin · 1 Apr 2016 at 21:58

Yes, that's what I said earlier in my post from yesterday, that the chocolates weight 1.195kg.

jpaul · 1 Apr 2016 at 22:37

... off'ish topic post ...
I do not know if others have the same problem, but in firefox none of Raymonds
pictures are visible, they seem to work on internet explorer and are hosted at
http://i.imgur.com, most other images seem hosted at http://*.photobucket.com
and these present no problem for firefox (my regular browser) .. is this an overclockers forum problem