When/ how are you drinking WS hot chocolate?

[Anonymous]

Love Penzey’s hot chocolate- taste is like Mexican hot chocolate without the extra work

[Anonymous]

OP, I have no idea why you’re getting rude remarks.

We had hot cocoa this weekend after decorating our tree. We started with popcorn, then moved to the cocoa. I love that combo of salty and then something sweet. I want to buy some proper drinking chocolate for my DD’s stocking this year!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Come for the hot chocolate recipes; leave for the shaming and mean-spirited snark. So many wack threads this week - is it a full moon?

OP, try Rumchata or Godiva white chocolate liqueur!

(Cue the peanut gallery: “Godiva is sooooo middle class!”)

Indeed it is a full moon.

I figured out what WS meant since this is the food forum. Is there something special about it? I haven't shopped there in a long time since the one near me closed. I mostly went in and looked around, and then bought something elsewhere. I think I only actually shopped at Christmas, lol.

The best chocolate drink mix I ever had we bought at Harrods or somewhere while shopping in London. It was called "drinking chocolate", much richer than hot cocoa, and was basically a tin of chocolate shavings and chunks. It was delicious but a lot of work to make hot chocolate with it. I buy the hot chocolate mix that looks like little milk bottles at Wegmans. It's pretty tasty and is made with milk instead of water (I usually drink tea at night, though the kids love hot chocolate).

Yes, OP is referring to this type — tiny flakes of chocolate shavings that you melt in hot milk. I think this is why OP specified it — not because she was name dropping a brand. The status-anxious and militant scolds on here just didn’t get it. It’s pretty well known, like their peppermint bark, which also kicks butt.

I bet if you add a splash of heavy cream that would make it pretty deluxe. And/or peppermint marshmallows. And/or booze.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who brand-name drops hot cocoa?

Who indeed?

[Anonymous]

Not trying to be snooty, but if anyone is interested in very thick, not-too-sweet hot chocolate, you can make it in basically the time it takes to heat milk:

Heat 2-3 cups of whole milk. Add 3-5 oz of chopped bittersweet chocolate and stir until melted and very thick. Serve in small mugs with whipped cream, marshmallows if you like.
Really good. I find most hot cocoa to be too sweet and not chocolatey enough, and this recipe fixes both.

[Anonymous]

Ah, humblebrag in a mug. The delicious and sweet taste of smug, all swirled with a candy cane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I make hot chocolate by melting 72% chocolate into evaporated milk,and freezing it in 2oz cubes. Hot chocolate is much more luxurious than hot cocoa.

This is intriguing. What’s the ratio and how big should the cubes be?

10-12 oz of chocolate (cut off of the TJs point plus, but we're not supposed to mention names in this thread ...). Ghiradelli chips also work. One can of evaporated milk. I use an old baby food thing, and I find that 2 oz is perfect. Heat 6 oz of milk, melt in the chocolate cube, and there you are.
Trader Joe's also has tins of drinking chocolate right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I make hot chocolate by melting 72% chocolate into evaporated milk,and freezing it in 2oz cubes. Hot chocolate is much more luxurious than hot cocoa.

This is intriguing. What’s the ratio and how big should the cubes be?

10-12 oz of chocolate (cut off of the TJs point plus, but we're not supposed to mention names in this thread ...). Ghiradelli chips also work. One can of evaporated milk. I use an old baby food thing, and I find that 2 oz is perfect. Heat 6 oz of milk, melt in the chocolate cube, and there you are.
Trader Joe's also has tins of drinking chocolate right now.

Are you sure it’s not sweetened condensed milk? Google tells me not to use evaporated for these hot cocoa on a stick, because the chocolate will never set.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I make hot chocolate by melting 72% chocolate into evaporated milk,and freezing it in 2oz cubes. Hot chocolate is much more luxurious than hot cocoa.

This is intriguing. What’s the ratio and how big should the cubes be?

10-12 oz of chocolate (cut off of the TJs point plus, but we're not supposed to mention names in this thread ...). Ghiradelli chips also work. One can of evaporated milk. I use an old baby food thing, and I find that 2 oz is perfect. Heat 6 oz of milk, melt in the chocolate cube, and there you are.
Trader Joe's also has tins of drinking chocolate right now.

Are you sure it’s not sweetened condensed milk? Google tells me not to use evaporated for these hot cocoa on a stick, because the chocolate will never set.

THat is correct- that's why I freeze them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I have no idea why you’re getting rude remarks.

We had hot cocoa this weekend after decorating our tree. We started with popcorn, then moved to the cocoa. I love that combo of salty and then something sweet. I want to buy some proper drinking chocolate for my DD’s stocking this year!

Because she specified Williams Sonoma and shortened it to WS instead of just posting "When/how are your drinking hot chocolate?". It's striking a lot of readers as tacky for one reason or another.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I have no idea why you’re getting rude remarks.

We had hot cocoa this weekend after decorating our tree. We started with popcorn, then moved to the cocoa. I love that combo of salty and then something sweet. I want to buy some proper drinking chocolate for my DD’s stocking this year!

Because she specified Williams Sonoma and shortened it to WS instead of just posting "When/how are your drinking hot chocolate?". It's striking a lot of readers as tacky for one reason or another.

It reads like a marketing tweet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I have no idea why you’re getting rude remarks.

We had hot cocoa this weekend after decorating our tree. We started with popcorn, then moved to the cocoa. I love that combo of salty and then something sweet. I want to buy some proper drinking chocolate for my DD’s stocking this year!

Because she specified Williams Sonoma and shortened it to WS instead of just posting "When/how are your drinking hot chocolate?". It's striking a lot of readers as tacky for one reason or another.

Drinking chocolate is much less common (and far more decadent) than hot cocoa. There's only a handful of places to get it , including WS. There was nothing tacky about OPs post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I have no idea why you’re getting rude remarks.

We had hot cocoa this weekend after decorating our tree. We started with popcorn, then moved to the cocoa. I love that combo of salty and then something sweet. I want to buy some proper drinking chocolate for my DD’s stocking this year!

Because she specified Williams Sonoma and shortened it to WS instead of just posting "When/how are your drinking hot chocolate?". It's striking a lot of readers as tacky for one reason or another.

It reads like a marketing tweet.

It reads more like a cryptic secret code. Not in a million years would I have figured out what "WS" stood for.

- Enjoying my SM hot chocolate (see what I did there?)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I have no idea why you’re getting rude remarks.

We had hot cocoa this weekend after decorating our tree. We started with popcorn, then moved to the cocoa. I love that combo of salty and then something sweet. I want to buy some proper drinking chocolate for my DD’s stocking this year!

Because she specified Williams Sonoma and shortened it to WS instead of just posting "When/how are your drinking hot chocolate?". It's striking a lot of readers as tacky for one reason or another.

Drinking chocolate is much less common (and far more decadent) than hot cocoa. There's only a handful of places to get it , including WS. There was nothing tacky about OPs post.

She didn't say "drinking chocolate", though. She said "hot chocolate", which to me is synonymous with hot cocoa. Big whoop, you bought branded hot chocolate from a mall store.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I have no idea why you’re getting rude remarks.

We had hot cocoa this weekend after decorating our tree. We started with popcorn, then moved to the cocoa. I love that combo of salty and then something sweet. I want to buy some proper drinking chocolate for my DD’s stocking this year!

Because she specified Williams Sonoma and shortened it to WS instead of just posting "When/how are your drinking hot chocolate?". It's striking a lot of readers as tacky for one reason or another.

Drinking chocolate is much less common (and far more decadent) than hot cocoa. There's only a handful of places to get it , including WS. There was nothing tacky about OPs post.

Except she said hot chocolate. I’m Canadian, and we don’t say hot cocoa. If it’s vaguely chocolatey and hot, it’s hot chocolate, even the awful stuff you get at the arena. Not sure if this is a regional differentiation (cocoa vs chocolate) in the US?

In any case, the fact that OP specified WS was being purposefully obnoxious and name dropping, with little effect to their status, as evidenced by the replies.