My wife baked a German Chocolate cake last week and used about 5 oz my La Reserva brick of chocolate from Bitcoin Beans. I've never tasted anything like it (and I've eaten an extraordinary number of chocolate desserts).
If you follow Bitcoin Beans on nostr, you may have seen them describe their product as "food not candy" and talk about the different flavor notes, much like wine or coffee connoisseurs would. That's not just being pretentious, this stuff is loaded with rich flavors and scents that wash over you as you eat.
Apparently this is the advantage of single origin beans: the distinct flavors of the variety don't get diluted by other beans. Also, unsweetened chocolate is very nutritious and because this is not nearly as bitter as most baking cocoa, it doesn't need as much sweetener.
An easy way to enjoy the flavors is to just melt a little into your coffee, as @oshigood recently described.
I'm looking forward to whatever chocolate desserts the wife whips up next, particularly if it's some sort of brownie.
As a coffee drinker, this look really enticing. 1 pound seems like a lot, but worth it to support a bitcoin company.
Any recipe suggestions for combining with coffee? Would pouring over the chocolate and honey without adding milk or blending work? I don't have a working blender right now and not interested in adding milk.
Do you grind your beans at home? We throw some of their nibs into the grinder with our coffee beans.
I use coconut milk instead of cow milk, fwiw.
Its amazing how many people are enjoying our cacao with coffee. Really cool! So the ground nibs is a great way to do it, and equally just to melt some straight off the block and add to your pre made coffee, then give it a good wizz in the blender for a smooth mix. A word of advice though, 100% cacao has an active chemical very very similar to caffein and if you add the two together be prepared for a very potent mix! Personally i would recommend to give the cacao its own space, to try it in its purest form, with a natural sweetner that you like and any milk if you wish (blend it up), to get to know how cacao on its own works in your body. You will be quite amazed as to the energetic and mood altering benefits of a cup of cacao a day. Enjoy!
I mentioned in my HODL Butter review that I also like adding the nibs to my dates and HODL Butter snacks.
There's so much more flavor than other nibs I've tried.
Yeah man they are insane, they pack a punch, and then the texture goes so well with so many things. I love them sprinckled on a smoothy bowl. I'm nudging Oshi pretty regularly for a Hodl Butter with Bitcoin Beans caramlised nibs!! If you make the request he may just bend the knee!
I make frequent suggestions to @oshigood and am happy to second your motion for caramelized nibs.
I caramelized the nibs in panela actually for a silly nodes order to Foxfire Mushrooms on Nostr. I may need to do that for the hodl bars though. It just takes some extra time
The people are talking Oshi!! I plan on getting caramalised nibs to SC depot in the next shipment. Lets keep it just on here as a little secret for now, but these Nibs will be caramlised in Indegnous panela, straight from the source, not from any old market or shop but direct from a beutiful family who make their own panela! Different level PoW, worthy of a place on a jar of Hodl Butter! Just some thoughts, just some data to put in the information bank for possiblitities and probabilities!
what a combo. love it
No photo?
Agreed single origin is best
I was addicted to Dove dark chocolate when I bought it.
It arrived. It's beautiful. Huge solid block. I've never tried cacao before. I did not have a proper shaver. I chipped some off an put it on top of vanilla ice cream to try it that way.
It's awesome. So awesome that I've stopped my Dove addiction. Now I'll just hold onto this until I get a proper chocolate shaver and can find more ways to enjoy it.
It's truly a whole 'nother level. Makes regular chocolate seem silly in comparison.
atta boy, ditch the dove. thats so fiat
I didn't even know there was a particular tool for this. I just used a big ass knife to chop and shave off what we needed.
The old school and most commonly used aparatus! @1GLENCoop is a very fancy guy!
Me either, until I tried chopping at it with a steak knife. I figured there's gotta be a better way. Searched "chocolate shaver" on Amazon and found many.
Thank you so much for the anmazing feedback and photos @1GLENCoop , very very happy to hear you have been converted from industrial grade chocolate to the real stuff! Its a really important distinction to make... Cacao is not candy! We are not comparing like for like, they are two very different thigs. I direct you to our recent Cacao Truth Series posts on Nostr but in essence one is industrial fiat poison and the other is medicine, a health food that has been scientifically proven to improve mood and well being, reduce inflamation and aging, and improve the health of the heart amonsgt many other things. And to top it off, it can be purchased with Bitcoin!! A wee favour, could i ask that you post this feedback on Nostr for us, this would be ever so helpful. Thank you, and keep up your daily dose, 20grams a day is healthy dose. See our website http://www.bitcoinbeans.co/proofofdeliciousness for recipe ideas.
I'm not some California hipster who feels the need to share photos of everything I eat.
bruh
I wanna see it going in and coming out
Thank you so much for the anazing feedback on our single origin cacao, La Reserva, from Santander, Colombia. We are very proud to work alongside our original permaculture teachers Marlon and Paola, our beloved friends, knowing their farm intimately having spent over 8 years working the land there with them. This cacao holds all that precious Proof of Work. Literally 7 years of devotion to bring this harvest to market. It truly is a majestic farm, looked after deligently and lovingly by the guardians day in day out, and there is no doubt in our miunds that this cacao holds all that love and care, its not diluted out in some barbaric industrial process. Thank you fort sharing on here. Could i request that you post this feedback on Nostr as well please, that would be super helpful.
The best way to grow bitcoin adoption is to offer great products for it.
I did cross-post this to nostr (a nifty feature on SN)
The single-origin approach to chocolate is the same revolution that happened with coffee about 15 years ago. Before specialty roasters, coffee was just "coffee." Once people tasted single-origin beans with specific processing methods, the commodity version became undrinkable.
The fact that you can buy this with sats directly from the producer is the part that matters beyond the taste. The typical bean-to-bar supply chain has 4-6 intermediaries between the farmer and the consumer, each taking a cut. Lightning lets the roaster sell direct, which means the farmer gets more and you pay less for a better product. That's not a Bitcoin ideology thing, it's just better economics.
Have you tried the coffee beans from them too, or just the chocolate?
Worth knowing that the cacao variety matters more than most folks realize. Criollo beans, which is what most single-origin craft bars use, represent less than 5% of global cacao production. The other 95% is Forastero, bred for disease resistance and yield, not flavor. That flavor gap is roughly analogous to heirloom tomatoes vs grocery store ones, except the price differential is 4-8x at the farm gate.
The bean-to-bar movement has shortened supply chains from 7-8 intermediaries down to 2-3. A Ghanaian cacao farmer on the commodity market gets about $1,800/ton. Direct trade single-origin pays $3,500-6,000/ton. Lightning removes the last friction: remittance fees that eat 8-12% on West African corridors drop to near zero.