In advance of Valentine's Day the good folks at the San Diego Union Tribune's food section conducted a tasting of chocolate chips earlier this week. Not being much of a baker, I'd opt for champagne truffles as way to express affection through chocolate rather than chocolate chips.But let's get back to the paper's survey. The eight panelists sampled the chips in cookies and out of hand, one of my favorite ways to, ahem, "test" chocolate chips.
The chocolatey morsels were evaluated for flavor, texture and performance in a cookie. And the winner for best performance in a cookie (and overall winner) was Guittard Real Semisweet Chocolate Chips. I've never heard of Guittard but a quick Google search revealed that the E. Guittard is a purveyor of some mighty fine sounding gourmet chocolate bars, including Venezuelan Sur de Lago.
The runner-up in the tasting was an old-school classic: Nestle Toll House Semisweet Chocolate Morsels.
