Lindt back on special, looks to be most varieties. Amazon price matching Woolies this week
Then take a photo, send it to them, get a refund and free melted chocolate. Even a better deal!
And if it's not melted on arrival just leave it in the sun a bit longer.
Bought several chocolate bars from amazon and never had that issue, Amazon is quite good tbh from that perspective. Had a dent on a Bombay gin bottle lid which I bought as a gift (yes I'm cheap) and received a replacement after speaking with live chat.
It's a legit critique. I've had mixed success with Amazon and chocolate. Fine mostly, but there has been items have arrived melted and mangled AF. They must have occasional issues with stock getting exposed to heat somewhere in the supply chain handling.
Fair enough thought I'd share my own experience.
I ordered Lindt at Amazon before. All came bloomed which you only find out once you open them not on the day they arrive.
@lonewolf: Chocolate bloom is either of two types of whitish coating that can appear on the surface of chocolate: fat bloom, caused by changes in the fat crystals in the chocolate; and sugar bloom, due to crystals formed by the action of moisture on the sugar.
Most of the time is due to the storage conditions of the chocolate. (damp, temperature changes etc)
@jazzza: Ok that's what I thought it was..I thought it was referred to as becoming oxidised. So it's called bloom..good to know. I notice dark chocolate is more prevalent with that in my experience
Be careful with the 95%. Even at 90% it doesn't taste like chocolate anymore.
For me, dark chocolate doesn’t taste like chocolate 🫣
Once you go dark, you never go back.
that's what she said
Once you go dark, you never come back.
Works well for cooking though, chilli etc. Just need a tiny amount, just a square or two and so much taste for little extra sugar etc.
90% is buttery smooth. Pure cocoa solids with just a hint of sugar to keep the bitterness manageable - without becoming sickly sweet like most dark chocolate.
Normal milk chocolate is Lindt 90% diluted with sugar, and milk powder.
But 95% is too far. It gets ashy and too bitter.
85 and 90 are the best.
dark is the best. healthy too
30-60 grams a day
Raw cacao is the healthiest, containing many fold more antioxidants, and isn't as bitter either.
For me,85% is the best compromise of sweetness and smoothness. Mixing with some nuts when having it will make it acceptable for not being overly sweet.
Love the 95%. I Always get these
The boutique shops sells 99% which has way too much sodium.
Sodium content
per 100g
25mg…
Wild numbers
Have you tasted it?
Meant to say tastes too salty. Cest la vie
I keep that up with the kfc and pizza deals posted here regularly
@slowmo: Sodium should be the least of your concerns with those.
The whole brouhaha with sodium is actually potassium deficiency; they work together (as in the sodium-potassium pump), and compensate each other (as zinc and copper also do).
@wisdomtooth: I’m not worried about sodium as i watch what amounts I eat (including the stuff you mentioned). I find that the 99% more salty than the 95%. That’s it.
@ssfps: Our kidneys readily expel excess sodium, and a normally healthy diet, i.e. one with plenty of dark leafy greens, is more than plentiful in calcium.
This is chocolate. What you are referring to is sugar treats coloured brown, it is not chocolate. I can understand people who live on that sht can't stomach this, their sugar addiction is not being serviced when they eat it.
That's bc you've been trained to think chocolate tastes like margarine with corn syrup, and don't know what chocolate truly tastes like.
Yup 100%
https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/search/products?searchTer…
Woolworths if you don’t want to order from Amazon.
FK Bezos
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This makes good hot chocolate using our Bambino Plus
Beware of lead poisoning:)
Btw I just ordered 4
WTF, Now we have to worry about chocolates :(
Yeah, it is someting which has not been talked much… to be safe just go with milk or white.
Wow oh no, mmm heavy metals
"To see how much of a risk these favorite treats pose, Consumer Reports scientists recently measured the amount of heavy metals in 28 dark chocolate bars. They detected cadmium and lead in all of them."
Detected lead, but how much? Due to the widespread use of leaded fuel in the 20th century it's likely all farmland contains some lead that then ends up in plants and animals.
Copy-pasted from the site:
We tested 28 dark chocolate bars for lead and cadmium. To determine the risk posed by the chocolates in CR’s test, we used California's maximum allowable dose level (MADL) for lead (0.5 micrograms) and cadmium (4.1mcg). Shown are the percentages of the MADL supplied in an ounce of each chocolate. Our results indicate which products had comparatively higher levels and are not assessments of whether a product exceeds a legal standard. We used those levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, and CR’s scientists believe that California’s levels are the most protective available. While both cadmium and lead pose serious health risks, products within each category are listed in order of lead level, because that heavy metal poses particular concerns and no amount of it is considered safe.
According to SA health, there is no safe level of lead exposure.
All of this royally sucks since I enjoy dark chocolate on a regular basis ;w;
@GateauBoeuf: Here's an exhaustive list of ALL chocolates and their measured lead/cadmium quantities.
Adjust the filter to show Lindt, Moser Roth, or whatever else you ingest.
@GateauBoeuf: PSA: If you are considering children, please abstain from dark chocolate and other sources of lead and cadmium.
So many pregnancy resources neglect to mention heavy metals, and this is an example of gross neglect. Please share this with friends and family who are expecting or trying to conceive.
@GateauBoeuf: This sort of fidning is very disturbing. You can find similar studies for rice containing high-levels of heavy metals including arsenic, overseas. When those studies have been examined in Australia, they have found negligible levels. If you think of the amount of cars in California and the big trucks Americans drive, its not hard to see where the heavy metals come from. Unless I'm totally off and the cocoa is soruced from South America. Bottom line, is that it may be different in Oz. Unless of course all that Lindt is imported…
@dtoovey: Pretty Sure lindt is imported and made in only one place and hence the same standard of chocolate across the board. Just like how ferrero and toblerone (used to be )
No. 90%
Minimum 3?
The Chocolate factory in Hunter Valley has chocolate that is 100% !
It helps lowers my high blood pressure.
Cheers OP. Grabbed the one with a hint of sea salt.
95% is only 80g, but 85% is 100g, might go for 85%.
Noticed the same price in Harris Farm tonight.
The Frey ones are quite similar and 20% cheaper when 1/2 price.
I find them better — cleaner and smoother — but the last time they were half price was last July.
I always buy them at Woolies for $2. I think they are half price at least once a month.
Not sure who negged you. Negging without commenting should be illegal here.
Had Gatorade 6 x 1L delivered the other day from Amazon.
One bottle leaked and started developing mold inside! Didn't realise mold could grow inside Gatorade bottles.
Got a refund, but not sure if the unopened bottles are still drinkable given it been in a hot truck for a couple of days (Melbourne to Sydney)?
Are these good? I usually prefer Cadbury or Whittaker's
They're proper chocolate; Cadbury's is margarine (i.e. hydrogenated "vegetable", i.e. soybean, oil) with sugar (i.e. high fructose corn syrup), and "natural" (i.e. artificial) colourings and flavourings.
70% is my favourite. Tried 95%, but it really needs to be eaten with something else to be enjoyable.
I'm ok up to ~80-85% but no higher unless mixing it with something, as you said
Currently buying Coles Belgian at 85% for $2.50, not much discernible sweetness in it though.
There's a 70% for the same price if you want to try it.
https://shop.coles.com.au/a/national/product/coles-70-dark-c…
Only 95% left at the reduced price
disappointed - the dark is not my preferred which is Lindt Extra Creamy Milk
which I buy whenever I see good discounts - got a couple the other day
Cheap, but I wouldn't trust Amazon with handling chocolate. Would probably arrive melted