Chocolate offers wonderful smell and taste, and chocolate in its many forms is often beautiful, but many of us miss the sound of chocolate completely.
In fact, the "snap" is one of the characteristics serious chocolate aficionados use to gauge the quality of chocolate. A fine quality chocolate bar made with a high proportion of cacao will break with a clean, sharp snapping sound.
Vegetable oils or large quantities of extra sugar will spoil the snap and leave only a clunky breaking sound, or no sound at all.
On the other hand, the shape and the other ingredients used in a confection will also affect the snap. Sweetique chocolates, fine as they are, are the wrong shape to break, and contain special added ingredients that would prevent them from creating a good snapping sound anyway. Chocolate cakes, truffles, drinking chocolate, and filled chocolates won't produce a snap.
Next time you're enjoying bar chocolate, though, break a piece and enjoy the snap before take a bite, for the full sensory experience of chocolate.
