Storing Your Gourmet Chocolates

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Chocolate should be a taste experience. Fine dark chocolate should be quite hard at room temperature, with a clear snap when you break off a piece. The flavors can only be tasted properly when the chocolate is at room temperature.

Fine dark chocolate likes to be cool and dry – heat and humidity can wreak havoc on chocolate. The refrigerator is cool, too cool actually, but not dry. It’s relative humidity is too high. The fridge presents other problems for chocolate as well. Like absorbing other smells in the fridge, altering the taste and texture of the chocolate and the development of sugar bloom.

Dark chocolate can keep up to about 1 1/2 years. So, a clean, odor-free, dark, cool closet or cupboard, on a dark shelf or any cool area of your house is a good place to store chocolate. Of course, if you plan on eating your chocolate within a couple of weeks – just keep it within easy reach and enjoy a piece whenever you want.

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