About a year ago we got to travel to Mexico to make chocolate entirely from scratch.
Along the way we got to eat chocolate of many different varieties and forms, starting from the raw cacao fruit.
(Andy) "Its like a bitter chocolate, but also tastes like a fruit."
(Chris)"Outside looks like a booger, but it tastes really sweet and has a bitter inside."
Really good, better then boogers." (Andy Off screen)"Does it taste like chocolate?"
"Not yet, you can taste a little bit of it."
One other chocolate variety we were able to try is Pozol. Which is the drink made from fermented corn dough and chocolate.
So, just picked some cocoa beans, and now I'm about to learn how to process it first.
Then I'll have a refreshing drink of Pozol.
"Right?" (Woman off screen) "Yep" (Both chuckle)
Really good, doesn't taste like. -stops- Tastes chocolaty but not like chocolate, not like cold hot chocolate or anything.
Huh, not sure what to compare it to, but it's really good.
*Sips
Better than Swiss Miss. *Sips.
Just a little cold.
Has a little more chunks, but it's dough.
From there we got to taste chocolate, made by hand by Rubio and his wife, but it was mixed with cinnamon in traditional Mexican style.
"Really good, got a bit more texture. Definitely taste the cinnamon, really good."
"I like that."
(Woman off screen) "It's like, toasted in our mouths"
"So good."
"Say'in was it's like uh, like uh chocolate hug."
"Was delicious, like he said a chocolate hug. "
"Like burning -Stops- Not burning, not burning but almost like you're on a bonfire and it's in your mouth."
"But that taste, of that toastiness. Delicious."
Kind of reminds me of a uh crunch bar, but soft. (Female) "Yea right, no"
No no no Just the popiness of it, that's the texture. (Female) Oh yea that lingering.
Yea no, the chocolate and those meh, chocolate and this good.
We also got to visit a chocolate factory while in Mexico and try some of their fresh dark chocolate.
*Struggles to break chocolate.
Hmm, very Hard
Very rich, bit bitter.
It's a little smoother, the whole mechanical process. but it's uh
probably not as sweet, um there might be cinnamon in this but its not as strong.
It's good
Let's see if can bite through this, I don't have strong teeth.
Really bitter, but really sweet. It's -stops- again can't discribe the difference in chocolate.
Compared to your traditional candy bar, but this -stops-
This is authentic, that's all I can say.
(Andy) "How does it compare to boogers?"
It's way better than boogers, but I haven't eat those since I was a kid Andy.
Back home I learned the process of turning the Cacao beans into actual chocolate and then made my own dark milk chocolate.
Can taste the fire roasting and the smoke to it.
It's good though.
"I would call it rustic, and not in a bad way."
While I was pretty happy with the results, I also let my niece and nephews have a taste of it
You may recognize them from my previous video, where they got to taste my sandwich I made from scratch.
They weren't the most fond of it.
(Child to the far left) Oooo
"Yummy"
Now it tastes chalky.
(Andy of screen) "Yea?"
(Andy and other laughs)
Well it's fire roasted
Don't fire roast it.
(Child on far right) Eww
Ew ew ew, don't fire roast it!
Multiple children asking for more chocolate.
(Andy) "Don't like it Anna"?
(Anna) Nu uh (Andy) No?
(Littlest child) "Can I have some?"
Lastly I used my dark milk chocolate to attempt to recreate a variety of store bought candy bars.
Once again I was pretty happy with my results.
But, I thought I would let some of the other people on my team give their reaction to it.
Including Brian, the member of our team who did't get to come with us to mexico, and never got to taste any of the other chocolates.
(Brian) It actually looks very appetizing, so I'll give it a try.
This is the raw dark chocolate.
It's awesome, I mean I love dark chocolate.
So this is like, really nice. This is probably very healthy as far as chocolate goes.
And uh, it's very subtle, but uh this is the kind of stuff I want
The dark chocolate is uh, I mean pretty good. No way to really describe it.
Yea I like it.
And this is the Butterfinger? That's very good.
I think we could manufacture this stuff and sell it.
I mean it doesn't have the crunchiness that a Butterfinger has, but its very good.
This seems more like a Reese's buttercup than a Butterfinger.
Doesn't really look like a Butterfinger, and I don't think it was made in the same tradition as Butterfinger.
That's not like a Butterfinger at all, that's like uh rectangle Reese's Pieces
I'm going to finish this because it's actually good.
The Reese's Peanutcup
This ones the most like an actual uh, piece of candy that we were trying to make.
Tastes the most like a Reese's Buttercup
This is awesome.
I'm going to eat the rest of this one.
This actually looks like a Reese's Buttercup
It's the one thing that actually looks like it should
And it's good, I really like it.
Tastes like a Peanut Butter Cup, it's not really as sweet. So I think they have some sort of powdered sugar in there.
So this actually takes more like a Reese's Buttercup than this.
This tastes like a healthier version of a Reese's Buttercup.
Something you pay a lot of money for.
NutRageous
Which is huge
Oh my god, how much chocolate did you use in this?
It's really good, but I think if you were to actually try to make this to scale. You would go bankrupt.
Because there's so much chocolate in here, it'll probably be like a ten dollar candy bar.
It's was really tasty
last up is the NutRageous, I had to beg and plead to Andy that he would make one of these, these are my favorite candy bar.
Really doesn't look like one
Kind of looks like a turtle, but I like turtles too.
I like this better than my actual favorite candy bar, really mixes well this so called "rustic" chocolate.
But I think you know the smokey flavor really brought out of the chocolate with the peanut butter, caramel and the nuts.
I know it rude for me to speak with my mouth full, but I can't stop eating this.
They are all really good, and I think if this Youtube channel thing doesn't work out for us I think we can go into business making chocolate.
I'd pay probably over ten dollars for these honestly.
(Andy off screen) How about seventeen hundred?
Seventeen hundred? I would not pay seventeen hundred for this chocolate.