A minor religious experience in your mouth
Choctàl Dominican Chocolate Ice Cream is amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing. (Yes, I needed every singe a.)
First of all, it starts with the smoothest, silkiest ice cream I've ever had. I mean, I always think 'silky' is a dumb descriptor for food, but this ice cream's texture is truly that fine, and the flavor is that finely distributed through it. It just feels decadent on your mouth. This is ice cream that has such a good texture that you should (a) get the ice cream as the last item before you go to check out (b) buy plenty of frozen vegetables to put around it in the line to keep it cold (c) put it in a freezer bag (d) keep the bag in the inside of your car with the air conditioning, instead of the drunk and (e) go straight home and put it in the freezer. Because if the ice cream melts and refreezes (as the very, very top layers of my ice cream did) you'll get a slightly grainy texture which is not bad, but not as good, and if you can have that glass smooth texture all the way through, you'll be much happier. Because it just feels good.
Seriously, it's like drinking from a wine glass instead of a jelly jar, or wearing velvet instead of stretch lycra. You need to feel ice cream textured like this, and then you need to ask yourself, "Why isn't Ben & Jerry's this way? Why has Häagen-Dazs never felt so smooth? Godiva chocalatiers, why are you falling down on the job on the ice cream front?" It's the difference between recording podfic in your front bedroom while an ambulance whirls down the street and working for BBC Radio. Even if you don't want to have chocolate ice cream, you want to have some of this ice cream, because it feels that good in your mouth! (Also, they have vanilla flavors. So, you know. You don't have to have chocolate to experience their creamy goodness.)
The second part is the flavor. Now, if you are someone who likes chocolate, but does not particularly like milk chocolate, ice cream is a bit of a quandary. Ice cream, unsurprisingly, tends to be creamy tasting. And when I say creamy, I'm not just talking about mouthfeel, it tastes of the milk and milkfat. And if you like dark chocolate, even dark chocolate ice creams tend to be underpowered. How can they not be? When I eat a bar of chocolate, I don't feel like it's serious unless it's at least 60% cocoa by mass. Ice cream is about 60% water by weight, so it never reaches that level and normal ice cream is 50-60% air by volume. (Premium ice creams can be as little as 10-15% air by volume.)
This ice cream tastes as if it were a bar of dark chocolate. Probably in the 70% cocoa mass range. And this is a good chocolate, nothing harsh, not too much sweetness like American chocolates, complex without being crazy and disharmonious. Just chocolate, literally melting on your tongue, making you pay attention to just how good it is and how glad you are it is there.
So, yeah, I recommend this. Check your local organic or gourmet grocery. I picked this up in a Trader Joe's. Their website references testimonials from people who bought at Whole Foods. Run, do not walk. But when you get it, sit down, get your best spoon, and give yourself the space to just pay attention to what you're putting in your mouth. You won't regret it.
First of all, it starts with the smoothest, silkiest ice cream I've ever had. I mean, I always think 'silky' is a dumb descriptor for food, but this ice cream's texture is truly that fine, and the flavor is that finely distributed through it. It just feels decadent on your mouth. This is ice cream that has such a good texture that you should (a) get the ice cream as the last item before you go to check out (b) buy plenty of frozen vegetables to put around it in the line to keep it cold (c) put it in a freezer bag (d) keep the bag in the inside of your car with the air conditioning, instead of the drunk and (e) go straight home and put it in the freezer. Because if the ice cream melts and refreezes (as the very, very top layers of my ice cream did) you'll get a slightly grainy texture which is not bad, but not as good, and if you can have that glass smooth texture all the way through, you'll be much happier. Because it just feels good.
Seriously, it's like drinking from a wine glass instead of a jelly jar, or wearing velvet instead of stretch lycra. You need to feel ice cream textured like this, and then you need to ask yourself, "Why isn't Ben & Jerry's this way? Why has Häagen-Dazs never felt so smooth? Godiva chocalatiers, why are you falling down on the job on the ice cream front?" It's the difference between recording podfic in your front bedroom while an ambulance whirls down the street and working for BBC Radio. Even if you don't want to have chocolate ice cream, you want to have some of this ice cream, because it feels that good in your mouth! (Also, they have vanilla flavors. So, you know. You don't have to have chocolate to experience their creamy goodness.)
The second part is the flavor. Now, if you are someone who likes chocolate, but does not particularly like milk chocolate, ice cream is a bit of a quandary. Ice cream, unsurprisingly, tends to be creamy tasting. And when I say creamy, I'm not just talking about mouthfeel, it tastes of the milk and milkfat. And if you like dark chocolate, even dark chocolate ice creams tend to be underpowered. How can they not be? When I eat a bar of chocolate, I don't feel like it's serious unless it's at least 60% cocoa by mass. Ice cream is about 60% water by weight, so it never reaches that level and normal ice cream is 50-60% air by volume. (Premium ice creams can be as little as 10-15% air by volume.)
This ice cream tastes as if it were a bar of dark chocolate. Probably in the 70% cocoa mass range. And this is a good chocolate, nothing harsh, not too much sweetness like American chocolates, complex without being crazy and disharmonious. Just chocolate, literally melting on your tongue, making you pay attention to just how good it is and how glad you are it is there.
So, yeah, I recommend this. Check your local organic or gourmet grocery. I picked this up in a Trader Joe's. Their website references testimonials from people who bought at Whole Foods. Run, do not walk. But when you get it, sit down, get your best spoon, and give yourself the space to just pay attention to what you're putting in your mouth. You won't regret it.