- This week I'm joined by Evelyn because this week it is--
- Chocolate!
- Chocolate.
- Who doesn't like chocolate?
- Yeah, who doesn't like chocolate?
We'll try three different chocolates at drastically
different price points to determine
which is the most worth it.
- [Female Voice] UK
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- If you lie all the tire irons in the world
back to back some of them would sink.
- It is lovely, look at all of this.
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- We're in Arlow, bam! (laughing)
- [Evelyn] We're running late.
(cash register dings)
- Hi.
- Hi, how are you doing?
Woke up with the idea that I would take
bars we enjoyed as children,
but remake them with great ingredients.
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My name's James Ecclestone and I'm the founder of
The Grown Up Chocolate Company and we're expanding
in my production kitchens in Harlow.
We have the very best ingredients.
We're making an indulgent treat.
We're handmade, with focus on the quality
of what you're doing.
- [Rich] So it truly is a handmade process.
Did you just get that off a tray?
- (questioning noise)
- We don't mind the chocolate addicts.
Salted peanut caramel is 40% of all our sales.
The person making a cavity of pear shapes
and cocoa dark chocolate.
You make a cavity because it has to be filled
with freshly made caramel.
The caramel we make with concentrated butter,
full fat cream, the sucrose in sugar.
Put that caramel in the bottom of the cavity
we've made in the chocolate, add some course sea salts,
jumbo roasted peanuts, then we cap it with peanut
praline, we cap that cavity with more milk chocolate.
Then we roll it on the machine behind me and
it goes through a chocolate waterfall,
for want of a better word.
Then he blow off the chocolate with a hot air dryer,
after that somebody decorates it with
the chocolate sprinkles.
The third person unloading the tunnel boxes it
for retail use and off to the destination.
Today you're gonna be trying the peanut salted caramel,
retails for about £1.95, (cash register)
a maximum indulgence.
- Let's do it. (laughing)
Let's indulge.
(clap)
- Nice try kid, but it's not for you.
Two bars of sumptuous salted caramel.
What does sumptuous mean?
- They're like tasty or sexy.
- [Together] Sexy?
- [Evelyn] You're sitting pretty sumptuously right now.
We've seen these go through the whole process.
They did a better job on that one than that one.
- I guess that's the art of makin' it by hand,
they're all different.
- [Rich] Yeah.
- They're not exactly the same.
- This is a nice, heavy, solid chocolate, isn't it?
Oh it's already touched the mouth I can't cheers.
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Cheers.
- Mmm.
- Oh wow.
Rich, powerful chocolate.
We have the hard chocolate on the outside,
perfect milk chocolate.
- This chocolate is so buttery.
- Yeah.
- And it instantly melt in your mouth.
- The salted caramel, which really is salted,
it's not too sweet.
- Smooth, sticky, nice.
- That white stuff is the peanut.
Pure hard-hitting peanut taste, isn't it?
- It is!
- Right?
- Kinda like gritty, slightly salty again.
Balanced really well chocolate.
All of the good things packed into one little bar,
one big bite.
- Truly sumptuous.
The Joe of chocolates.
- I don't know if I want to eat this now.
(laughing)
- So I think this next place has the coolest name,
of all places ever: Choccywoccydoodah in Brighton.
I just picture working there and answering the phone.
Hello, Choccywoccydoodah.
- Aww.
It kinda sounds like a magical place.
- Yeah.
So I used to live in Brighton and I went away for a week
and my roommate left my window open.
And I came back and there were like twigs on my bed
and it smelt really weird and then under my desk
there was this massive seagull.
Terrifying.
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Luckily it was fine, but I would close the widow
and he would come back and like hammer on the window
and look at me like hey you're in my room.
- You stole his house.
- He stole my house.
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We're here in sunny Brighton, in the middle of summer.
- Lovely England.
- Ahh!
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Oh my God!
- [Evelyn] (laughing)
- Sh-- (beep)
- Aww.
- We've just been mugged by a pack of thugs.
(beep)
Now I'm having a bad hair day and it's not sunny
in sunny Brighton.
- Brighton.
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- The beauty with what we do is, we stick chocolate
to chocolate with chocolate.
- So it's like an art gallery, but it's
all made out of chocolate.
- It's all 100% edible.
Pretty fun right?
So I'm Dan and we're at Choccywoccydoodah in Brighton.
We're an art and design focused chocolatery.
We pride ourselves on making cakes
that like defy gravity.
- I noticed you called it a chocolatery.
It's not a chocolate shop.
- Oh we're not gonna throw you out if you
call us a chocolate shop.
- What's the difference?
- Oh, don't ask me that, I don't know.
Oh dear.
- It's French.
This one here took a team of four, three days to make.
- He's holding his thingy.
- Not all the magic happens here though,
it is a top-secret location.
- Do you have Oompa Loompas?
- We don't have Oompa Loompas.
- Ah.
- So today you're gonna be trying our
Choccywoccyrocky Road.
It's quite a mouth full as we like to say.
- Choccywoccyrocky Road.
Choccywoccyrocky Road.
(laughing)
- She's a pro.
- She is a pro.
Literally everything that's fantastic on it inside
and covered in chocolate.
Nugget, honeycomb, coconut ice, jellybeans
and marshmallows.
We mix everything together in a giant bowl,
set that in the fridge.
Once it's set we drizzle it with molten white chocolate.
Once that's fully set, we'll take it out and
then individually wrap each bar,
ready for sale in the shop.
So today you're gonna be trying our enormous bar of
Choccywoccyrocky Road and it's priced at
(cash register) £29.99.
- This isn't a bar, this is a slab.
It's like unwrapping a Christmas present and
you just get hit with the smell.
(plastic wrapping)
- [Together] Beast.
- So beautiful.
[Together] Ohh!
- [Evelyn] Look at the marshmallow.
- [Rich] O.M.G.
Right, that's your bit, this is my bit.
- What?
- I can see marshmallow, coconut ice,
jelly baby things, some fudge.
Cheers.
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It's the best thing I've ever put in my mouth.
It's not like an overload of chocolate.
Physically heavy.
- (laughing)
- Taste-wise light.
- Yeah.
And the texture changes throughout.
Salt, marshmallow, coconut ice, it's more like a fudge
and the jellybeans become a sticky.
- Yeah, yeah.
- And the honeycombs crispy.
- It's like a new chocolate bar every bite, isn't it?
- It's becoming more and more difficult.
- It feels slightly greedy.
- But satisfying.
Sorry, but this is mine.
- And I mean this thing is ridiculous.
Chocolate fact:
- In Mayan times the cocoa bean was
actually used as currency.
- What could you get for one bean?
- I don't know it's like a tena.
- (laughing)
- But what if they were different sizes?
- Oh, was that?
- Well, I don't know.
- Well, you need to find this stuff out.
You're the fact man.
- [Rich] Don't tap your head.
No. (laughing)
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So for this next part it's kinda weird.
When researching expensive chocolate,
the most expensive is from a company called To'ak
that's based in Ecuador, you can buy it in the UK--
- UK.
- But Liz wouldn't let us go to Ecuador.
- I'm sorry.
- Joe, where's Ecuador?
Yeah, okay.
We will not reveal where this chocolate bar is sold.
We have to keep it secret.
- Are we going in Harrods?
- Chocolate joke.
- Chocolate jokes.
I was struggling to open my chocolate Easter egg.
Eventually I cracked it.
- That's a good one.
- That's a good one?
- That's a good one.
- Yeah.
(cash register ding)
- [Evelyn] Oh my Gah--
- Most expensive purchase of chocolate.
- [Joe] Ohh.
(beeping, ringing)
- [Together] Hi!
- I am Carl and I'm calling you from
To'ak headquarter in Ecuador.
(cash register)
- This is the most expensive chocolate in the world!
- [Rich] I feel like Indiana Jones.
This is so posh.
Ew, that's £300 of chocolate right there.
- [Evelyn] I feel like I'm touching gold.
- What are these?
Little tweezers.
It's like this fancy contraption is for eating the
chocolate because our hands are not worthy.
Okay, let's take you off.
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- When you're eating something so special you whisper.
- (laughing)
- Harvest year 2015.
- Like wine there's a year for it.
- Yeah, what if it's out of date?
♪ Ohhhh ♪
- [Evelyn] Oh my God, there's--
- What is that?
- A bean in the middle.
What?
- A bean.
It's like a game of operation.
(buzzer)
Look at that.
I mean just for the rarity of these beans, I think.
- Are we--
- Opp!
- You know what's also cool?
This is super expensive, right?
But it is just chocolate, they haven't done any
of the gimmicks like paint it in gold or
put it in a diamond.
I mean the packaging is beautiful and it's lovely,
but it's much more to do with the chocolate.
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To me it smells like this amazing old study with
a fireplace and two big ol' leather armchairs,
like some old books and it's all warm and cozy in there.
There's a glass whiskey on the side and there's just
this old wise dog sat by the fire who just sorta looks up.
(bark)
(pop)
That's what it smells like.
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- Honestly, there's definitely a high.
- That's why it's so expensive, it's laced with drugs.
- (laughing)
- Drink wine, the initial taste is slightly different
from the next taste and it changes again
and then you have an aftertaste.
It's exactly the same with this.
- There's fire and there's ice.
There's heavy, there's light.
- Yeah, I definitely got some chocolate in there.
The James Bond of chocolates, effortlessly cool.
- Quietly epic.
- Quietly epic chocolate.
I've got like £50 worth of chocolate on my fingers.
Which of the three amazing chocolates was the
most worth it for you?
- I love the way To'ak, so much depth to the flavor.
- It was like havin' an incredible bottle of wine.
- Gotta say, gotta say.
The Grown Up Chocolate Company.
A real chocolate factory.
I loved it.
- My winner Choccywoccydoodah, so bad for you.
So delicious.
I'm obsessed.
- And we had such a good day there.
- Yeah it was a fun day--
- Yeah.
- Until the birds.
(evil laughter)
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