Why can't I use chocolate bar vs chocolate chips to save $

amother

OP ↓

Fri, Nov 15 2024, 7:31 am

I'm confused - price of chocolate chips is much higher than chocolate bar that I can chop up for recipes. Does anyone use chocolate bars instead of chocolate chips to save money?

Aside from having to chop up any downside?

mommyhood ↓

Fri, Nov 15 2024, 7:40 am

Chocolate chips are made to hold their shape, the chopped bar might melt and not stay as chunks.
Also curious what bar you’re finding that’s cheaper than chocolate chips. In my stores it’s more expensive that way and more work.

amother

Taupe

Fri, Nov 15 2024, 7:40 am

The original chocolate chip cookie was made by chopping up a chocolate bar.

Bnei Berak 10 ↓

Fri, Nov 15 2024, 7:55 am

amother Taupe wrote:

The original chocolate chip cookie was made by chopping up a chocolate bar.

*Thank you* for posting what I was thinking!! Flower

I believe we call could benefit from a bit of thinking and inquiring our grandparents "How did you do it without item XYZ? Example: regular cling film for kitchen use. What did they do? Maybe covered with a plate. There were no silicon baking mats with marked circles for the macaroons you want to bake. Solution: do circles with a pen on baking paper.
You dont need to stop using convenient things but having some grasp of possible alternatives is always a good thing.

imaima ↓

Fri, Nov 15 2024, 7:57 am

amother OP wrote:

I just did it for the recipe
Have always done it
I am not dropping everything to run out and buy chips.

essie14

Fri, Nov 15 2024, 8:09 am

I do this for Pesach because the KFP chips are gross and the chocolate bars are so much better quality. The cookies come out just fine.

amother

↑ OP

Fri, Nov 15 2024, 8:10 am

TY everyone. I know that prices vary but are chocolate baking bars *typically* cheaper than chips? I would assume so.

↑ Bnei Berak 10 ↓

Fri, Nov 15 2024, 8:11 am

imaima wrote:

I just did it for the recipe
Have always done it
I am not dropping everything to run out and buy chips.

I like your attitude instantly! Flower

amother

Pear

Fri, Nov 15 2024, 8:21 am

amother OP wrote:

TY everyone. I know that prices vary but are chocolate baking bars *typically* cheaper than chips? I would assume so.

I buy store brand generic pareve chocolate chips but pareve chocolate bars are only frum brands at double the price

twizzlers1

Fri, Nov 15 2024, 8:21 am

I think chocolate bars are yummy on cookies . Sometimes we put in chocolate chips and pieces of chocolate, and those are absolutely the best cookies! And sometimes sometimes just Chocolate Because sometimes I can’t even even find chocolate chips.

amother

Charcoal

Fri, Nov 15 2024, 8:26 am

Just bought 9 oz gefen chocolate chips for $2.74 I from Walmart think that’s a fair price

amother

Lightyellow

Fri, Nov 15 2024, 8:34 am

I sometimes use bars cut in chunk
They work the same good
But chocolate chips are ussaly cheaper
Did you see that bars are cheaper or were you just assuming
Because as far as I’m aware they are ussaly more expensive

amother

Oatmeal

Fri, Nov 15 2024, 8:35 am

Chocolate bars are smaller. A little more than a 1/3 smaller.

Choc chips are around $2.50-3.50 for 9 oz bag

A chocolate bar is 3.5 oz. Almost a 1/3 of the size. A cheap chocolate bar is maybe 1.50. The better bars are 2.50 and up. I don’t see how using a chocolate bar saves money. Unless you buy cheap baking chocolate. But it’s not so yummy to eat in cookies. And even then 10 oz baking chocolate is at least $4.

You can 100% use choc bar in cookies. In fact I like choc chunks better. But I’m not sure you are saving any money.

↑ imaima

Fri, Nov 15 2024, 8:58 am

amother OP wrote:

TY everyone. I know that prices vary but are chocolate baking bars *typically* cheaper than chips? I would assume so.

Baking bars are cheaper

I use a regular dark chocolate bar in a pinch and it’s more expensive.

etky ↓

Fri, Nov 15 2024, 9:15 am

When I moved to Israel in 1980 there were no chocolate chips here (among other things like broccoli, celery stalks, fresh mushrooms, normal breakfast cereal etc.) so we chopped up chocolate bars.
I'll never forget the excitement when the Oppenheimer c. chips first hit the supermarkets sometime in the mid-eighties IIRC.
That said, I still cut up chocolate sometimes if I want higher quality pieces or chunks instead of chips for baking.

kenz

Fri, Nov 15 2024, 9:25 am

If you use baking bars as chocolate chips make sure you buy semi sweet or bittersweet depending on your preference or the cookies will be awful. Regular baking bars that do not say semi or bittersweet are not meant to be eaten on their own and taste terrible that way.
That aside, I find chocolate chips (Jewish brands) to be both cost and time effective. For a gourmet cookie, chopped up chocolate with nice chunks is definitely the way to go. Basically you’re fine either way.

↑ mommyhood

Fri, Nov 15 2024, 9:55 am

amother OP wrote:

TY everyone. I know that prices vary but are chocolate baking bars *typically* cheaper than chips? I would assume so.

I looked it up in my stores they’re not cheaper.not a huge price difference but why would I spend more to work harder.

amother

Hotpink

Fri, Nov 15 2024, 10:00 am

amother Pear wrote:

I buy store brand generic pareve chocolate chips but pareve chocolate bars are only frum brands at double the price

Which brand?

amother

Mulberry

Fri, Nov 15 2024, 12:36 pm

amother Pear wrote:

I buy store brand generic pareve chocolate chips but pareve chocolate bars are only frum brands at double the price

What brand?