[TheForge] Damascus Chocolate

[Larry]

So if I have light and dark chocolate swirled together, do I have chocolate
Damascus?

Larry

Dave Brown wrote:

> At 12:35 04/03/02 -0500, you wrote:
> >On Wed, 03 Apr 2002 08:42:33 -0600, Dave Brown wrote:
> >
> > >And how about those guys who sell "Pure Iron", that isn't exactly
> > >pure, close but not quite pure.?
> >
> >   "Purity" is a percentage of contamination, usually set by
> >consensus.  Since there's only one group making "Pure Iron", they
> >set the limit(s).  As an example, you can label chocolate products
> >"pure chocolate" if they contain less than EIGHTY PERCENT PARAFFIN.
>
> The point was not whether they could call it pure iron or not.
>
> As for chocolate, this is a new one on me since the Standard of Identity
> for chocolate requires that it have a minimum of 52% cocoa butter fat
> content.  At eighty percent paraffin it can't be called chocolate,
> chocolate flavored maybe, but not chocolate.  It doesn't meet the standard
> of identity.
>
> Dave Brown
> <who worked for 24 years for a small choclolate manufacturer>
>
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