The Chocolate Experiment

You’ve heard of Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, you’ve tasted numerous chocolate bars and you may or may not know the history of chocolate. But, I bet you’re curious to find out what my sister and I did in our Chocolate Experiment.

Firstly, you should know it took an entire month to complete because although it looks simple every result was reflected on (whilst we slept) and in some cases adjusted (because of the after after taste). Nevertheless we got through 10 different bars of chocolates of three different types, four brands and many, many chocolate pieces.

Our Method:

1.      We selected ten different chocolate bars namely:

a.       Cadbury Flake Chocolate

b.      Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate

c.       Nestle Aero Milk Chocolate

d.      Nestle Tex Bar Milk Chocolate

e.       Nestle Milk Chocolate Bar

f.       Nestle Bar One Milk Chocolate

g.      Nestle Milk Chocolate Log

h.      Nestle Milkybar White Chocolate

i.        Lindt Intense Orange Dark Chocolate

j.        Beacon Midnight Velvet Dark Chocolate

2.      We then chose one bar of chocolate and began to experiment on it (Mwa Hah Hah Hah)

3.      The first thing we did was to check the lifespan of the chocolate.

4.      Next we broke the chocolate into squares and rated it according to how hard it was to break. We used a scale of 1 – 5. We gave the chocolate a 1 if it was really easy to break and a 5 if it was hard.

5.      We then weighed the chocolate and set aside 20g of it.

6.      After that we ate a piece REALLY SLOWLY, analysed the texture and described it (believe it or not this is much harder than it sounds due to our lack of knowledge of food related adjectives).

7.      Then we tasted a piece and examined the way the flavours melted together in our mouths. When we were satisfied we could accurately identify at least 2 adjectives we sat back and enjoyed the taste.

8.      After all the tasting we took the 20g of chocolate pieces, put them into a microwave proof container and checked how long it took to melt.

9.      We then recorded the results for the chocolates and when we were ready we chose our next victim we repeated steps 2-9 until we had tested every chocolate.

Our results were very intriguing:

Which one is your favourite?

If you find that you have time on your hands and would like an excuse to eat lots of chocolate I suggest you try this experiment J