Australian supermarket dark chocolate taste test: ‘I feel like a refined, classy lady eating this’

‘The highest scoring chocolates were the ones with high protein and a four parts fat to three parts sugar ratio.’ Photograph: Isabella Moore/The Guardian

My chocolate obsession has been through many phases. The most ridiculous was the bean-to-bar period when, over three sleep-deprived days, I tried to fashion a chocolate bar using a large bowl, a hairdryer and a pair of blenders. It taught me it’s possible for home cooks to make chocolate that’s both delicious and interesting, but it’s absolutely not worth it.

That brings me to my current phase, a stage of life that requires frequent chocolate purchases, sometimes in bulk and sometimes immediately. This taste test was exactly what I needed, even if I didn’t believe it.