The age old debate over where chocolate should be stored has been solved once and for all.
While many keep their uneaten chocolate safely stored in the fridge, others prefer to store it in the pantry so it melts faster in their mouths.
And while either is fine, Cadbury has revealed which method leads to better tasting chocolate.
The age old debate over where chocolate should be stored has been solved once and for all
The argument for the fridge is that it stops it from melting and can add an extra crunch.
Those that support putting it in pantry do so because it doesn’t change its creamy consistency.
Keeping it at this temperature also stops the chocolate from developing the white speckles it gets from colder temperatures.
To solve it once and for all Angela Bishop from Studio Ten went to the Cadbury factory in Dunedin, New Zealand to get to the bottom of it.
Cadbury told her that chocolate made in Australia has a special ingredient in it to prevent it from melting in the hot weather.
The argument for the fridge is that it stops it from melting and can add an extra crunch
Other countries don’t have this in their chocolate simply because temperatures don’t get hot enough to require it.
‘This is why you put it in the cupboard, problem solved,’ she said.
Previously New Zealand based chocolate expert, Luke Owen Smith, told Stuff that even in a heat wave, it’s best to avoid storing chocolate in the fridge at all costs.
Those that support putting chocolate in pantry do so because it doesn’t change its creamy consistency
Mr Owen, who owns The Chocolate Bar and is widely known for his monthly boxes of quality craft chocolate bars, said that chocolate stored in the fridge becomes ‘dull’ and ‘doesn’t release the flavours’.
Instead, chocolate should be stored in a ‘cool, dark and dry place’ as ‘extremely cold temperatures can mess with the temper as much as hot temperatures can’.
If the heat is too much for the chocolate to stay in one piece, Mr Owen said the best course of action is putting it into a sealed container in the fridge but left out in room temperature before eating.