Do You Have a Favorite Cocoa Powder?

[WilliePartingto]

Hey, everyone, have a good beginning of a week! I've most often baked
with Hershey's brand Special Dark dry cocoa powder and sometimes I mix
it with the Kroger brand. I'm quite pleased with the results but I'm
wondering if it's worth it to try some of the finer brands (Guittard,
ValrhonaDroste, Ghiradelli ). Any thoughts?




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WilliePartingto

[Sheldon Martin]

Penzeys is by far the best:
https://www.penzeys.com/online-catalog/natural-cocoa-powder/c-24/p-913/pd-s

[Silvar Beitel]

I have good old Hersheys, Ghiradelli (this stuff, I think: <https://www.ghirardelli.com/100-unsweetened-ground-cocoa-%288-oz%29-61703cs>) and both the regular and Dutch-process Penzeys cocoa. I am unable to tell you if one is better than the the others; they all seem to work fine in the cakes, cookies, and hot chocolate drinks I've made.

Dammit. Now I've got the jones for a childhood favorite: Snow-on-the-Mountain cookies (what my mother and her mother called 'em.)

This recipe looks about right:
<https://amandascookin.com/chocolate-crinkle-cookies/>

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Silvar Beitel

[Bruce]

On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 10:05:34 -0400, Sheldon Martin <penm...@aol.com>
wrote:

You probably mean to say that they're Jewish. Or from NY. Or both.

[graham]

I hear and read about all these fancy brands, then I buy Fry's.

[Sheldon Martin]

On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 10:08:20 -0500, Sqwertz <sqwe...@gmail.invalid>
wrote:

>If Penzy's sold dog turds you would claim they're the best, too. If
>you really knew this then you'd have mentioned which variety.
>
>I thought you dumped Penzey's about 10 years ago after you found out
>he was a homo.

I still have some of their items I haven't used up yet. Their cocoa
used to be sold in one pound amounts at the price they charge for 1/2
pounds now, the same with their adobo. However I now buy spices at
BJs and from Amazon. I haven't bought Penzeys cocoa or anything else
they sell for about ten years now, it may not be as good anymore. I'll
likely never buy from Penzeys again, those faggots no longer have a
printed catalogue, that made it easy for me to choose all the items I
wanted... their faggot website is very clumsy. Getting rid of their
printed catalogue was a very ignoranus business decision. Their long
time customers will soon forget they exist.

[Cindy Hamilton]

Their newer customers won't care. Paper catalogs are so 20th Century.
I don't even bring them into the house. Right into the recycle cart.

Cindy Hamilton

[John Kuthe]

YES! Chocolate cocoa powder! ;-)

NOT artificial chocolate FLAVORED either! ;-)

John Kuthe, Climate Anarchist and Chocolatologist!

[darr...@aol.com]

Bruce, do you see Jews in your sleep...around the corner?ehe Actually, the only Kosher cocoa is Fox's U-Bet! eh No authentic NYC Egg Cream is every complete without it! eh -D, "Besides flashbacks and fantasy sequences, it's basically all set around one Passover meal. That means our whole cast was shot all around this dinner table for three months. I got to the point where If I saw one more matzo ball, I thought I'd kill myself. "I remember these actual family Passover dinners. Probably nobody suspects it, but I'm Jewish. I don't practice the religion, but my parents did, and I remember my great-grandma's Seders. They were very much like the movie. Crazy. Sweet. Rambunctious. Contentious. Funny. Dysfunctional. With factions. Those doing well, those not doing well. Who's siding with whom. Those pairing off and those left out. And the jealousies like, "You were always mama's favorite.' Stuff comes out in every family get-together." - LESLEY ANN WARREN, Actress, talking about her starring role in "When Do We Eat?"

[Bruce]

On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 19:16:32 -0700 (PDT), darr...@aol.com wrote:

>On Monday, April 27, 2020 at 1:51:33 PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
>> On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 10:05:34 -0400, Sheldon Martin <penm...@aol.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 12:38:18 +0100, WilliePartingto
>> ><WilliePartingto...@foodbanter.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >>Hey, everyone, have a good beginning of a week! I've most often baked
>> >>with Hershey's brand Special Dark dry cocoa powder and sometimes I mix
>> >>it with the Kroger brand. I'm quite pleased with the results but I'm
>> >>wondering if it's worth it to try some of the finer brands (Guittard,
>> >>ValrhonaDroste, Ghiradelli ). Any thoughts?
>> >
>> >Penzeys is by far the best:
>> >https://www.penzeys.com/online-catalog/natural-cocoa-powder/c-24/p-913/pd-s
>>
>> You probably mean to say that they're Jewish. Or from NY. Or both.
>
>Bruce, do you see Jews in your sleep...around the corner?

No, but Sheldon's a bit stuck in a rut. He has a mild version of what
you have.

> ehe Actually, the only Kosher cocoa is Fox's U-Bet! eh No authentic
> NYC Egg Cream is every complete without it! eh -D, "Besides
> flashbacks and fantasy sequences, it's basically all set around one
> Passover meal. That means our whole cast was shot all around this
> dinner table for three months. I got to the point where If I saw one
> more matzo ball, I thought I'd kill myself. "I remember these actual
> family Passover dinners. Probably nobody suspects it, but I'm Jewish.
> I don't practice the religion, but my parents did, and I remember my
> great-grandma's Seders. They were very much like the movie. Crazy.
> Sweet. Rambunctious. Contentious. Funny. Dysfunctional. With
> factions. Those doing well, those not doing well. Who's siding with
> whom. Those pairing off and those left out. And the jealousies like,
> "You were always mama's favorite.' Stuff comes out in every family
> get-together." - LESLEY ANN WARREN, Actress, talking about her
> starring role in "When Do We Eat?"

But don't worry. It's better to be obsessed with being Jewish than to
be turned on by cow udders.