MCDC Quiz - Chocolate & 'Ladies'

is a Belgian company and a major producer of chocolate rite?

And do I get a gift for waiting for my answer, Jay??

Gerry, in his class, like Santa Claus, Jay has lots of giveaways. If you butter (chocolate) him up the right way, I'm sure your patience will be rewarded by him.

Yen Lee: Good Suggestion; pls view the attach "prize" for the BEST answer. Hope we will get some fun answers and might learn a little too at the same time...... Prize is as follow: A chocolate mould for decoration plaque(I think we can use it for fondant too) and a sample tub of Vanilla fondant from Satinice.

Our Answers so far :-
Najit (funny) -- 1 candy
Amy (Correct, but not the answer we are looking for) -- 2 candies

hint hint hint.... Stay on topic; Jo doesn't like us to be "off topic". You have to asociate chocolate to "ladies"

You can submit a few answers from now until Oct 10 (closing time 8am, Oct 10) only the best answer get the prize.

I will give the right answer on Oct 10. Jo and Zalina will help to select the winner... Have fun all....

Jay, I did some homework & checked out Callebaut's website. Below is the summarized explanation lifted from their homepage.


“Callebaut is one of the rare chocolate makers who select, roast and grind cacao beans into cocoa mass, the prime ingredient for chocolate couvertures. They are roasted in their entire shell to protect the most delicate aromas and yield a more intense, more complex and deeper cocoa flavour. Callebaut grinds all the ingredients extremely fine – much finer than most other chocolate makers. The ingredients are then conched with the same precision and patience until the texture, aroma, taste and flavours blend into perfection. Adding pure cocoa butter and a dash of natural vanilla rounds off the taste and texture of the chocolate”.



Extracted from : http://www.callebaut.com

Let me take a potshot at the answer...although I was too late to get into your class the other week

Callebaut is like the 'premium' ladies at MCDC lah, kan Jay?? But within Callebaut also got many different classes of chocolate - some are like the sifus on this forum (super premium couverture), some are middle class, and some are like me...decorator wannabe (still real chocolate but not so premium).

As an aside Jay, how do you find the taste of Callebaut compared to Valrhona? (for the same cocoa%) I'm curious because I haven't tasted the Callebaut myself but have heard that it's rather bland...doesn't have the same flavour undertones as Valrhona.

I am not one to give up and I don't like candy Jay. Its chocolate for me and no other

So here is my sensible answer - "Callebaut is a Belgian originated chocolate couverture made of pure cocoa butter and natural vanilla with a melt-on-the-tounge texture. Famously used by professional chefs as it has >70% cacao content" .
Close enough?

Jay, in any quiz show the "writer" of the questions gets "rewarded" so....??????????????

Eh, Jay said I can help to select the winner? Does that mean I cannot compete for the prize too?? Hehehe, never mind .... I don't have the answer, anyway! Time to Google ....

Najat........... oooooooooooooops, spell you name wrongly...

Shimi, I will answer your question after the dateline

Gerry, I am sure I can spare you a candy or two for such fun question

Zalina, you started the "ladies" issue.... I handle the chocolate part and you handle the "ladies" part...

What should I handle then?

Najat, I thought Jay was looking for an answer that associates Callebaut to Ladies? Your answer was the theory but there was no 'practical' to relate to day to day life, which is 'Ladies' in this case. So your answer should be an analogy - The 'grade' of ladies that is equavalent to Callebaut, just like Chow Kit day-time ladies are associated to BWY no-name compound chocolate. (Oopss, make sure no BWY staff is reading this!)

Jay, your guidelines should be clearer. List down the T & C please .

Hahaha ... the "not really ladies" which I saw the other day would be associated with what chocolate, I wonder .....

This is all GREAT fun but.......I am still waiting for my answer on the Callebaut...Looks like I have to wait for the fun to be over first, right......

ooooooooooopsss.... too much hints from Jo msg to Najat; still have rooms for a more complete answer.... gift will be awarded to the BEST answer.....

Gerry, I am sorry, you just have to wait two more days!

Jay, my answer laku or not? Callebaut is like the blueblooded ladies lah .... the royalty

Zalina