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General Category => New Products => Topic started by: SunnyD on March 31, 2006, 11:30:58 pm

Title: Use of Branded chocolate
Post by: SunnyD on March 31, 2006, 11:30:58 pm
Is it illegal to buy cheap branded chocolate, melt it down, add your own special (secret) ingredients, re brand it as yours and sell it? or is branded chocolate not allowed to be used in this way?
Title: Use of Branded chocolate
Post by: smurfboy on April 01, 2006, 03:02:20 am
I don't know if this would be legal, but it would be an utter waste of time. Even if you got the branded choc at wholesale price, you would have to sell your 'new recipe' at an amazing price to make any profit.
Title: Use of Branded chocolate
Post by: SunnyD on April 01, 2006, 12:06:57 pm

Hi Smurf.......


Thats the idea, to sell at higher prices with exquisite packaging and retail in a great location. The main aim is to negate all of the preperation on the premises, saving man hours, for speed of turnover and obviously profit


Lets face it, we all know the most expensive chocolates rarely give superior satisfaction compared to the less expensive, or am I a chocolate philastine

Title: Use of Branded chocolate
Post by: kevvosa on April 01, 2006, 12:40:14 pm
I agree. Some of the more expensive ones don't taste better than cheaper bars like Dairy Milk. 
Title: Use of Branded chocolate
Post by: on April 01, 2006, 10:24:05 pm

Phil Astine?


Didn't he write the book:


Shove Yer Culture Anyway

Title: Use of Branded chocolate
Post by: on April 02, 2006, 08:20:35 am

Quote from: SunnyD
Is it illegal to buy cheap branded chocolate, melt it down, add your own special (secret) ingredients, re brand it as yours and sell it? or is branded chocolate not allowed to be used in this way?


Whenever you want to work out if something is illegal, ask yourself this question.  'What would I be charged with?'


Good luck.

Title: Use of Branded chocolate
Post by: loulou on April 02, 2006, 04:23:05 pm
When you buy chocolate and melt it down it never resets properly.
Title: Use of Branded chocolate
Post by: on April 02, 2006, 08:02:26 pm
Isn't reset a crime?
Title: Use of Branded chocolate
Post by: on April 02, 2006, 08:15:02 pm
Is it?  I'm always resetting the clock on my mobile phone
Title: Use of Branded chocolate
Post by: SunnyD on April 03, 2006, 12:56:43 am
I will have a go anyway, if it doesnt reset properly, I will just have to keep it all for my own consumption 
Title: Use of Branded chocolate
Post by: loulou on April 03, 2006, 01:05:35 am
What are you planning to add to it? Fruit/ nuts/coconut?
Title: Use of Branded chocolate
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on April 03, 2006, 11:04:43 am

CDM does not melt well, if you go to Cadbury World you are told that by the guide when you go around the factory! I have tried and it's true. You need a bar with higher cocoa solids to melt well.

Title: Use of Branded chocolate
Post by: chocolate chick on April 03, 2006, 11:59:39 am
Galaxy melts quite well. 
Title: Use of Branded chocolate
Post by: SunnyD on April 04, 2006, 02:11:04 am

An overexcited update -


I have since found a brill company that wholesale hand made chocolates and truffles.....How cool there stuff is too. Saving me even more hassle, forget melting or mixing, I want chocolates NOW


Watch this space!!

Title: Use of Branded chocolate
Post by: oldspice on April 04, 2006, 07:50:00 am
Title: Use of Branded chocolate
Post by: smurfboy on April 04, 2006, 03:35:06 pm
Is this company by any chance called Heavenly Truffles?
Title: Use of Branded chocolate
Post by: loulou on April 05, 2006, 12:17:53 am
Can't be can it?
Title: Use of Branded chocolate
Post by: on April 05, 2006, 06:51:22 am
Ordinary chocolate doesn't melt down because it's not chocolate.  It's fat and chemicals with an itsy bitsy bit of cocoa
Title: Use of Branded chocolate
Post by: oldspice on April 05, 2006, 08:04:39 am
But you actually manage  to shovel quite a lot of it down!
Title: Use of Branded chocolate
Post by: on April 05, 2006, 09:48:30 am
No I don't, not for several weeks.  I am a Chocolate Utopia/ Green and Blacks man now.  I occasionally indulge in a Flake but that's about it.
Title: Use of Branded chocolate
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on April 05, 2006, 02:26:58 pm

Quote from: smurfboy
Is this company by any chance called Heavenly Truffles?


I was wondering the same thing.

Title: Use of Branded chocolate
Post by: chocolate chick on April 05, 2006, 04:16:11 pm

Quote from: bounty hunter
No I don't, not for several weeks.  I am a Chocolate Utopia/ Green and Blacks man now.  I occasionally indulge in a Flake but that's about it.


What about Bounty's?
Title: Use of Branded chocolate
Post by: on April 05, 2006, 07:00:44 pm

Bounty's what?


 

Title: Use of Branded chocolate
Post by: on April 05, 2006, 07:01:40 pm
Sorry chicky, yes I have the odd plain one when I can get them. 
Title: Use of Branded chocolate
Post by: chocadmin on April 05, 2006, 09:31:09 pm

As far as repurposing/repackaging/adding to wholesale chocolate it is possible, although I suspect there are specific wholesale channels to go through. I know for instance that Rococo use Valrhona chocolate for many of their creations (but the wholesale valrhona chocolate comes in really massive bars).


What you can do (as Rococo does) is add ingredients, flavourings etc. and temper the chocolate after melting it down. Only thing is, tempering is a very skilled process and takes quite a long time to do right.

Title: Use of Branded chocolate
Post by: SunnyD on April 10, 2006, 01:36:25 am
No, not heavenly truffles but will have to have a look at them now...