"Eddy" wrote in message
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Hello Alex:

I went to the website you gave me Chocosphere or something close to
that. I looked around and found that Valrhona has a Chuao chocolate.
However the Chuao chocolate is Bittersweet. The recipe I have calls
for unsweetened. Now there is a whole bunch of terms that seem to
describe the same.
What do all those things mean anyway?

Unsweetened
Bittersweet
Semi-sweet
Bitter

Are these things describing the same thing or different things. I
know what unsweetened means (that there was no sweetener added).
Please help, everytime I decode one system, another crazy code word
appears.

Eddy


Unsweetened and bitter are pretty much the same, although the amount of
cocoa can vary. Bittersweet is a little more sweet. Semi-sweet has some more
sweetener added (usually cane sugar) than bittersweet. Milk chocolate has
milk added, and is a sweet (highly-sugared) chocolate. White chocolate
contains no cocoa, lots of sugar, and barely tastes like chocolate.