what do I do with 100% dark chocolate

turns out it's entirely inedible. I can't stomach it

now what

I'd like to try 100... Just recently I discovered I really enjoy 87%. I used to hate dark choco..

I guess you only like cappuccino's ?

I don't like coffee, can't drink it. So I don't like very dark chocolate.

I knew it was you
Melt it, add nuts, cocoa oil and sugar

hmm, I've tried 99% dark chocolate, but 100%? wouldn't that be just cocoa?

@Grumm I like coffee but I don’t like dark chocolate.

... maybe pot on the stove. I have coconut oil. could put some walnuts in. and honey for sugar

this could be a disaster!

@jestdotty never heat up natural honey if you don't want poisoning

@kiki the what

that sounds very strange?

I have raw honey. and my mom had this recipe for sore throats. milk, honey, baking soda and you heat it up. we used the processed honey though not raw. processed honey is processed by heating up raw honey... so this is all very confusing

also I've used this raw honey for hot teas. is that heating up honey? 🤔

@kiki huh? What about heating up milk with honey?

if you burn honey it creates something called hydroxymethylfurfural

but if you melt chocolate it's actually very easy to burn it (I remember people trying to make fondues). so I don't think I'll be putting this high enough to be burning this. it just has to be warm enough for the chocolate to melt and mix

coconut oil will also literally smoke if it's out on a too high heat and release carcinogens (as most fats do if you burn them)

Baking.

@jestdotty

"hydroxymethylfurfural"

burnt honey make you are furry, interesting

@Demolishun that’s the layman’s term, yes :)

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Scrape some off and put it in your coffee.

It's good for making hot chocolate, though. Other than that, it's just a flex for the producer. You don't really do anything else with 100% chocolate, because it includes high doses of theobromine, smaller doses of caffeine and tiny amounts of some other toxins you find in raw cacao.

@cprn so I have another chocolate by this same brand and this one is 85%. I eat 80% dark chocolate so I figured it would taste normal and like I'm used ti

it does not. it tastes similarly disgusting

never heard of cocoa having toxins. just looked up theobromine and it says it tastes bitter. yeah that's EXACTLY how this chocolate tastes. are they trying to kill me

I'm actually sick but been getting better lately, and anything I eat if it's even slightly toxic I get dementia and headaches, and that happened when I ate the 100% chocolate but I thought it was a fluke because it was so uncharacteristically strong a reaction than what I'd expect. I thought I was unable to eat chocolate due to the sugar, not because cocoa is toxic. raaghhhh

I bought an organic brand to avoid toxic shit, which is more expensive, but turns out this has MORE toxic shit. grrrr. fucking. everything. is. poison.

I can't eat sugar cane but I can eat raw honey btw (at least for a while, not forever)

WHAT

GRRRR

theobromine is in tea. the tea leaves that make up dark teas and green tea. I could not drink them anymore and it was driving me NUTS. I've been trying to find a way to drink tea again for 2 fucking years and NOTHING says anything about toxic compounds in such teas. it's always lowers inflammation, healthy X and healthy Y. fucking hell I hate this "information" era where there is no fucking access to the information you're looking for

@jestdotty 😆 Well, not all toxins are bad, especially in small amounts. Your body actually needs mild stressors to improve its kung-fu for when it has to fight the real deal.

Take red wine. Drink half a bottle, and you might get drunk, maybe even get a hangover the next day, generally feel like crap. But drink a few sips to dinner every day, and it lowers the risk of cardiovascular issues, helps regulate cholesterol and insulin levels, can even help with weight lose.

The same goes for tea, coffee, even energy drinks, and yes — chocolate. All of them good in moderation, bad when overconsumed, and highly addictive in every scenario.

@cprn my chemistry teacher used to say:

Everything is poison. It just depends on the amount.

@cprn I think you actually inadvertently solved so many mysteries for me rn

my nervous system is hypervigilant I think and I've been having tons of issues because of it. guess it's trauma after all. I've always liked stress and stuff so it was driving me nuts I can't do the things I used to, like fucking drink tea that is actually considered relaxing like green tea. like come on!

I LIKE DANGEROUS THINGS AS A FORM OF STRESS RELIEF SO WHAT AM I TO DO OH MY GOD

ok I'm bitching. but I think I overtrained the vigilant response basically and it's on such a hair trigger pathetic stuff like theobromine is fucking with me

thaaaanks random guyyy! ❤️

I now need new hobbies

@jestdotty Random guy at your service. 🫡

Also, maybe try silent meditation, IDK. 😆

87 is okay - i like that, 92 is the edge of the galaxy for me, anything above it - like 96+ are inedible.