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What do you use for chocolate chips?
« on: May 18, 2011, 09:15:42 AM »
 I've been here 10 years and only ever made chocolate chips cookies if I had Nestle ones from America, and I don't have any right now!  What would be the closest equivalent?  Maybe some nice dark chocolate like Green and Blacks?  The Supercook ones sound gross.


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Re: What do you use for chocolate chips?
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2011, 09:20:06 AM »
I've never really been a fan of chocolate chips (Nestle tastes like little wedges of wax to me), so I do what I always did in the US - buy really good quality chocolate and hack it up into chunks. Soooooo much nicer!  :)
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Re: What do you use for chocolate chips?
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2011, 09:43:37 AM »
My large Sainsbury's sells 100g bags of chips (dark, milk, white, and butterscotch). I wouldn't say it's the best quality chocolate, but it's decent.

If I don't have time to go there and get some, I just chop up a chocolate bar.
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Re: What do you use for chocolate chips?
« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2011, 10:55:36 AM »
I, uh, generally use chocolate chips! The standard milk, dark, and white chocolate chips are available in most supermarkets. Even my local Costcutter stocks them! The bags are half or a third of the size of American bags, but I generally find that an English bag is enough in my cookies anyway.

If I'm melting the chocolate for a recipe, though, I tend to buy a nice bar of chocolate and break that up to melt rather than use the chips.
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Re: What do you use for chocolate chips?
« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2011, 11:02:02 AM »
I always chop up a nice bar of chocolate. Green and Blacks, usually. I like the asymmetrical nature of the pieces.


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Re: What do you use for chocolate chips?
« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2011, 11:06:04 AM »
Waitrose sells "chocolate chunks" in milk, dark and white. They're nice if you like big pieces and I think the quality is good. I recently tried the Silver Spoon brand, but I found the chocolate quality to be very, very poor. Sometimes I just cut up bars of Green and Blacks into chunks (as someone else said).


ETA: I'm pretty sure Whole Foods in Kensington has the Nestle chips, but I don't know if you're near there!
« Last Edit: May 18, 2011, 11:08:41 AM by persil »


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