Does chocolate belong in the fridge? 🍫

45 comments

1. Chocolate belongs in the fridge or in the mouth. Nowhere else. (While keeping it family friendly)

2. I prefer fridged chocolate

3. No. Unless it’s summer and you basically have no choice. Impairs the flavour if it’s cold.

4. Only when camping in the summer, it goes in the DIY tent fridge to save it melting.

   Here’s how to make one with just a bowl and a tea towel: https://www.cool-solar-stuff.com/solar-cooking/diy-refrigerator/

   At home, nah. I’d have no teeth left.

5. I think it depends on the ambient temperature, in winter it’s cool enough outside the fridge. In summer I don’t like it verging on melty.

6. I don’t keep chocolate in the fridge.

7. No! I’m not trying to crack teeth munching on some chocolate 😤

8. Love me some chocolate straight from the freezer!

9. Only when the weather is very hot. It’s better cold than melted.

10. Cool dry place

11. Hell no.

12. For me it depends what it is.

    Cadburys I have in the fridge because it just tastes rubbish now anyway. I actually prefer Whole Nut straight from the fridge!

    Toblerone is in a cupboard because otherwise you can’t snap the triangles off.

    Milka is hit and miss depending on if it’s plain or had Daim pieces in.

    Galaxy doesn’t go in the fridge unless it’s warm.

13. I keep it in the fridge to avoid an accidental melting, but when I’m going to eat it, i leave it out for about an hour so it returns to room temperature

14. I used to work with Lindt, and their instructions were never to put chocolate in the fridge. Personally, I like putting a bar of Cadbury Dairy Milk in and eating it once it’s rock hard so it melts.

15. Do you want it in the fridge? Then put it in there. Why is there always so much conversation on UK subs about whether or not someone should or shouldn’t eat something a certain way. It’s just food.

    Personally, though, it depends on the season.

16. Yes if chocolate solid, no if chocolate caramel or other such substance that needs to be goopy.

17. Fuck yeah. Much better when cold.

18. In general, no.

    But I must admit I DO like a cold Snickers – Get’s really chewy and stops me eating the damn thing in 5 seconds! xD

19. I like the toughness of it after it has been in the fridge. Fridge always!!

20. You treat it like a steak. Store it in the fridge buy let it reach room temp before consuming

21. Nope, definitely doesn’t go in the fridge. It goes in a cupboard away from sunlight so it can’t melt.

22. Tastes better from the fridge imo but either way is fine

23. when i lived in egypt for a bit, we had to keep chocolate in the fridge because of the heat and the ants (who would chew through the packaging to get to food.) unless you have an actual reason, the default storage place for chocolate the cupboard.

24. No. Absolutely not. Cold chocolate doesn’t taste of anything?!

25. Yes if it’s thin, like the cheapest bars you get out of Tesco or Aldi. If it’s chunky then no, as it becomes impossible to eat without sucking it or breaking your teeth. Like eating concrete.

26. It’s not needed but it can be nicer

27. Knackers the flavour if you fridge it

28. Hell no. Room temperature chocolate releases flavour quicker and doesn’t shatter the life out of your teeth. Two major wins right off the bat.

29. Chocolate should be room temperature but also not melted. Most of the year here it doesn’t need to be in the fridge

30. Chocolate belongs in mouths and bellies.

31. Ruins it – no delicious, melty mouth feel if you chill it. We had an amazing lindt experience in the hot weather – liquid chocolate within the shell – bliss! Would have completely missed it if they’d been relegated to the fridge.

32. I’ve always found that chocolate tastes worse when chilled. Chocolate drinks even more so. They just taste like chemicals when chilled, but once warmed up a bit they taste more natural again.

33. you can put chocolate in the fridge or even the freezer.

    but you must let it come back to room temperature before eating for the best flavour.

    -source

    i eat a lot of chocolate (and also was a chef)

34. I personally love cold chocolate from the fridge but I get it isn’t for everyone. One of my uni mates used to keep malteasers in the freezer and I really liked the extra crunch you got from them

35. Hell yeah it does!

    And by the way , so do Haribo Tangfastics.

    There’s nothing like a chilled, firm, fizzy cherry. Good grief! 🤤🤤

36. Ideally it should be warm enough to be soft, but not squishy. So outside the fridge is better.

37. Depends on the chocolate. Twirls and flakes are obvious fridge dwellers. Galaxy caramel. Buttons.

    Milky ways are the classic borderline case.

    Anyone who puts a Mars bar or a snickers in the fridge is a pyschopath.

38. Yep, always!

39. Absolutely not.

40. Depends which way you look at it.

    Belongs? No.
    Better? Yes.
    Hotel? Trivago.

41. I believe Cadbury came out and said you shouldn’t store theirs in the fridge. I’m with you even if they hadn’t haha

42. Totally personal preference! We keep it and eat it pretty much straight from the fridge as both of us find that chocolate at close to room temperature is simply too sweet (yes, the sweetness-sensation is impacted by temperature, it’s a thing!). I like the slight crack when biting into cold chocolate and find the feel of almost-already-melting chocolate really cloying.

43. Spent time delivering chocolate to RDC’s years ago and if you delivered it chilled ( 5 degrees) it would be rejected.

    Only time you had your fridge on is iff it was a hot day, then on around 10 degrees iirc ( years ago ).

    Going by that chocolate should not be refrigerated.

44. Cheap chocolate in the fridge, expensive stuff in a cool cupboard if at all possible

45. Chocolate is to be stored at normal room temperature. Fact.
    This is what Maltesers were made for… if they end up stuck together in the pack then the environment is too warm.