How to taste chocolate

You must give yourself time to taste any chocolate, particularly one you have never tried before. Don’t eat it as if it were nothing special, particularly if made by a world-class producer. It is easy to tell the quality of chocolate your are buying for the first time:

Look
It should be shiny and uniform.

Break
The cleaner the break, the higher quality and more properly made the chocolate.

Taste
Let the chocolate melt slowly in your mouth – is the taste clean or does it seem to
stick to the roof of your moth.

Ponder
The longer the aftertaste, the better the chocolate. Quality dark and milk
chocolate should linger for up to 5 minutes.