{"id":346175,"date":"2018-01-31T13:45:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T12:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/never-keep-chocolate-in-the-fridge\/"},"modified":"2018-01-31T13:45:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T12:45:32","slug":"never-keep-chocolate-in-the-fridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/never-keep-chocolate-in-the-fridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Keep Chocolate in the Fridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It\u2019s the age old question that has been dividing foodies for generations: Should chocolate be kept at room temperature or chilled in the fridge?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">And according to one chocolate judge, those who answered the with the latter are incorrect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Speaking to\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/life-style\/food-wine\/100881563\/the-best-way-to-save-your-chocolate-from-melting-in-the-heat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stuff<\/a>,\u00a0<a id=\"mol-3d78a8b0-025a-11e8-980a-dd92940ed56b\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/new_zealand\/index.html\">New Zealand<\/a>\u00a0based chocolate expert and judge, Luke Owen Smith, said that even in a heat wave, it\u2019s best to avoid storing chocolate in the fridge at all costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Mr Owen, who owns The Chocolate Bar and is widely known for his\u00a0monthly boxes of quality craft chocolate bars, said that chocolate stored in the fridge becomes \u2018dull\u2019 and \u2018doesn\u2019t release the flavours\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Instead, chocolate should be stored in a \u2018cool, dark and dry place\u2019 as \u2018extremely cold temperatures can mess with the temper as much as hot temperatures can\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">If the heat is such that it is causing chocolate to melt into a soupy mess, Mr Owen said the best course of action is putting chocolate into a sealed container in the fridge but left out in room temperature for a while before eating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Leading food safety expert Belinda Stuart-Moonlight, told FEMAIL previously that another reason chocolate shouldn\u2019t be refrigerated is because it can lead to a \u2018sugar bloom\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">This occurs when it\u2019s chilled then exposed to warmer air. It causes condensation on the surface, dissolving some of the sugar, which recrystallises as a grainy, white coating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Chocolate also absorbs odours, so there\u2019s a risk it will end up smelling \u2013 and tasting \u2013 like last night\u2019s leftovers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">There is one exception, however.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018Chocolate with a creamy filling is likely to be at higher risk of going off and needs refrigeration,\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/food\/article-5315017\/Why-NEVER-chocolate-fridge.html\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Read the Whole Article<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/01\/no_author\/why-you-should-never-keep-chocolate-in-the-fridge\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the age old question that has been dividing foodies for generations: Should chocolate be kept at room temperature or chilled in the fridge? And according to one chocolate judge, those who answered the with the latter are incorrect. Speaking to\u00a0Stuff,\u00a0New Zealand\u00a0based chocolate expert and judge, Luke Owen Smith, said that even in a heat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-346175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}