"Eddy" > wrote in message
m...
> 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.