SWISS CHOCOLATE BATTLE: Best Chocolate for your Switzerland Trip

SWISS CHOCOLATE BATTLE: Best Chocolate for your Switzerland Trip | Laderach, Lindt Chocolate…& More!

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Which Swiss chocolate should you buy on your next trip to Switzerland? 🍫Blindfold on, mouth open: We taste 6 different brands of dark and milk Swiss chocolate…some are out of this world, some are boring, and some are just plain good. WATCH NOW!
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00:00 Swiss Chocolate Battle
01:14 Competition Ground Rules
01:57 1st Milk Chocolate Tasting
02:48 2nd Milk Chocolate Tasting
03:37 3rd Milk Chocolate Tasting
04:32 4th Milk Chocolate Tasting
05:36 5th Milk Chocolate Tasting
06:12 6th Milk Chocolate Tasting
07:21 1st Dark Chocolate Tasting
08:15 2nd Dark Chocolate Tasting
09:14 3rd Dark Chocolate Tasting
10:10 4th Dark Chocolate Tasting
11:15 5th Dark Chocolate Tasting
12:14 6th Dark Chocolate Tasting
13:59 Dark Swiss Chocolate Rankings
14:25 Milk Swiss Chocolate Rankings
14:53 Overall Swiss Chocolate Rankings
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// ABOUT THIS VIDEO //
What is Switzerland famous for? Watches, cheese, knives…and SWISS CHOCOLATE! 🍫
Of all the famous Swiss food (like fondue and rosti and alp cheese), Swiss chocolate ranks at the top for many tourists. Some even claim it’s the best chocolate in the world - and we may agree!
WATCH NOW to see:
- 😍 which ones we loved (“OMG this would taste incredible with a glass of red wine”🍷)
- 🥱 which ones were boring (“Do I even need to take another bite?!”)
- 🤩 and which ones were perfect for an everyday treat (“I mean, it’s good chocolate, so yeah I’m gonna eat it again”)
😎 We did a blind taste test with some of the best Swiss chocolate brands. We bought 1 dark chocolate bar and 1 milk chocolate bar from some of the most popular Swiss chocolate brands to determine our favorites.
🍫 All of them came from a grocery store in Grindelwald, Switzerland - except for one more luxurious Swiss chocolate brand, which we bought from their store in Interlaken. (You’ll have to watch to find out which one that is!)
WATCH as we sample some of the best chocolate in Switzerland. We’re spilling the (cocoa😉) beans about the most expensive Swiss chocolate brands, the best chocolate brands from the grocery store, and everything in between. We even mention the price of each bar for comparison.
Ready to discover the best Swiss chocolate to buy on your next Switzerland vacation? 😋 Join us for our blind taste test!
READ our blog for bonus facts about Swiss chocolate! (Like how the Swiss eat THIS much chocolate per year…wow!)
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@AplinsintheAlps Жыл бұрын

Are you drooling yet?!🤤READ our blog for bonus facts about Swiss chocolate! (Like how the Swiss eat THIS much chocolate per year…wow!) aplinsinthealps.com/the-best-swiss-chocolate-to-buy-on-your-switzerland-vacation/

@awaytogether Жыл бұрын

Very fun, guys! Loved it.

@AplinsintheAlps Жыл бұрын

Thank you! We’re glad you enjoyed watching. We hope you get to enjoy some of this chocolate in Switzerland too! 🍫

@mattm4497 Жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed that!! Please continue making taste tests 😊😊

@AplinsintheAlps Жыл бұрын

Awesome, thanks for letting us know! That’s encouraging and helpful 😊

@rafadominguez7 Жыл бұрын

Oh. Sooo fun! Thanks for sharing!

@AplinsintheAlps Жыл бұрын

So glad you had fun watching! We hope you get to taste some of these too 😋

@Hkimhaseals Жыл бұрын

Ahh! Love the way your taste tests ranking works! Please do more of such videos! Also, Lindt chocolate all the way!

@AplinsintheAlps Жыл бұрын

Awesome, thanks for the suggestion! We’re glad you enjoyed this blind taste test 😊 We might have to try this with Swiss cheese too 🧀

@jennymeynen Жыл бұрын

😂 This was brilliant! Loved the style and humour. I had a Lindt advent calendar, it was delicious! 😋

@AplinsintheAlps Жыл бұрын

Thanks Jenny! As you know, we like to make everything a fun experience, especially when it comes to food🤩 And good choice on the Lindt chocolate advent calendar, that’s a brilliant idea! (We normally stuff our advent calendar with Aldi chocolate because it’s the only kind small enough to fit in the boxes🤣)

@uiliamresende 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the video! I’m going to Switzerland and I’ll try all of them. 😋😋😋

@AplinsintheAlps 9 ай бұрын

You're welcome! You'll have to let us know which is your favorite!

@uiliamresende 9 ай бұрын

Sure!@@AplinsintheAlps

@marklane1766 Жыл бұрын

Fun to watch - thanks for sharing! Can not wait until our first trip to Switzerland in 2023. Definitely taking your recommendations to heart as we plan our trip.

@AplinsintheAlps Жыл бұрын

We’re so glad you enjoyed watching! Hopefully it preps you to enjoy the best Swiss chocolate for your trip next year 😊🍫 And we truly hope our resources (on KZfaq and our website) help you plan an incredible vacation!!

@marklane1766 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely…your videos have been extremely helpful in our planning. Thank you so much for all the work you do in posting such excellent & useful content!

@brianashley6073 Жыл бұрын

@Mark Lane my wife and I met with Jana and Brett a couple weeks ago for a "mini consult". Well worth it to confirm your itinerary is solid and Im sure they can add some things to it that you weren't aware of. 😀

@AplinsintheAlps Жыл бұрын

@@brianashley6073 you’re so kind! It was so fun to meet you and help you plan your trip!! 😊We’d love to keep doing that for more travelers!

@bnato8209 3 ай бұрын

Uge fan of Lauderach and almost out of my sheet of millk chocolate hazelnut from Zurich but my new favorite is Sprungli. Just wow, their individual chocolate pieces are the best like the Praline Brownie and the Praline Korbli. Insanely good, best ever!

@heartofhome Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this breakdown on the most important food in Switzerland! We concur that Swiss milk chocolate amazingly has caramely and nutty undertones, which makes it so enjoyable (and I am a dark chocolate lover who is adamantly opposed to milk chocolate under all other circumstances). I think it is noteworthy that the Lindt chocolate that is sold here in the US is actually produced here in the US, which means that it is not made with Swiss milk-this is a very important aspect of the flavor of Swiss milk chocolate! So if you are trying to find that flavor, make sure you check the label to see where the product is produced. Just another reason to go back to Switzerland ASAP! Merry Christmas, Aplins! Thanks for another great video!!

@AplinsintheAlps Жыл бұрын

That’s such a good thing to note about Lindt chocolate being produced in Switzerland vs elsewhere-thanks for the tip! Because we agree that the Swiss milk makes a dramatic difference in the flavor! Mmm those nutty, caramel undertones are delicious! 😋 And merry Christmas to you too!

@littlesusieofficial Жыл бұрын

My sister and I just got back from a short trip to Switzerland. We wanted to hoard Lindt chocolates to bring back to our country but thank goodness we tried more of the local brands from the supermarket. It was cheap but OMG!! it was the best dark chocolates ever! Yes, we only prefer eating dark chocolates. I would definitely go back to Switzerland not just because of the amazing beautiful place but for the chocolates as well!!!

@AplinsintheAlps Жыл бұрын

🤣 We love that you wanted to hoard the chocolate! Is now a good time to tell you that we brought home 15 bars (mainly the ones we sampled in this video)?!? 🍫 We hope you get to go back to Switzerland again - for the chocolate and the beauty as well 😊

@littlesusieofficial Жыл бұрын

@@AplinsintheAlps Your vlog has helped me and my sister a lot our trip rome and switzerland trip. Yes, we wil definitely be back hopefully next year.

@brianashley6073 Жыл бұрын

Touring the Lindt factory in Zurich is on the itinerary, but plan to try as many brands as possible while in Switzerland 🇨🇭

@AplinsintheAlps Жыл бұрын

Definitely shop at the grocery store if you want to try some of the most popular brands! And of course, enjoy all of the chocolate 🍫🙂

@elaine4710 Жыл бұрын

do you have any videos going paragliding in interlaken? any advice? thanks!

@crawfish91 Жыл бұрын

Darnit. In US here and plenty of lindt, and recently found laderach. Laderach is really good and wanted to find a different in swizterland. Gonna have to taste test when i get there.

@lauraezell7723 Жыл бұрын

Hahaha! This was great fun. I could generally tell you which brands you were tasting just by your description, though Cailler is pretty much our favorite brand for milk. I tend not to buy Lindt while in Switzerland as it's the one brand we can find easily in the US. Frey is always a winner for us, that brand is found at Migros stores, while Coop carries Cailler and Halba. When you go with the mix in flavors Halba is now the only brand I've found that does an orange/dark chocolate mix. It's been interesting to note how the mix in flavors over the years have changed in popularity. When I was a teen, dark with raspberry filling was always my favorite that my aunt would bring to me but that's no longer an option. Frey had a great milk with coffee filling but that's gone by the wayside, too. Once, in the interest of science of course, I brought home a Lindt milk chocolate with pistachio filling and bought the same at my local grocer in the US for a side by side taste comparison. I didn't note a great difference in the particular flavor but there was an overall freshness to the Swiss purchased bar and the texture was definitely better. I've not purchased the Laderach pre-packaged, just ordered small pieces of bark at the store. It's great, but pricey! One brand found in the French sections of Switzerland is Villars which I find to be economical & tasty.

@AplinsintheAlps Жыл бұрын

Wow that’s incredible that you could tell which brand we were sampling just by our feedback-you’re a Swiss chocolate pro! 😉 Thanks for your suggestion about Villars so we know what to buy next year when we go back to the French-speaking regions. 🍫And what a fun idea to do a side by side tasting of your favorite flavors in different brands. How fun!! 🤩

@lauraezell7723 Жыл бұрын

@@AplinsintheAlps If you're going to the Jura region may I recommend Murten, Avenches, St. Ursanne, and this delightful little town called Orbe. It's a bit out of the way, but is really pretty and the people were super friendly. Merry Christmas!

@kotgc7987 7 ай бұрын

Thanks, very important research, however I may have to verify for myself!

@AplinsintheAlps 7 ай бұрын

Ha! Yes...definitely check it out for yourself:)

@photosbynickel Жыл бұрын

Surely if you lived in Interlaken you went to Vanini chocolate. I can't believe you didn't mention them. Their lemon chocolate is amazing. We put them as our second favorite after Laterrack.

@JyotsnaRamachandran Ай бұрын

Have you guys tried Favarger? I loved their milk chocolate ❤

@cookingchannelkh4072 Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@jvkperspective Жыл бұрын

Great comedy - I thoroughly enjoyed this video and had to smile a lot. I prefer dark chocolate and stay away from milk chocolate whenever possible. Lindt is great, Frey is also good and you can get both here in Australia. When in Switzerland I am more partial to ones not available here like Ragusa, Torino, Sprüngli :) I stay away from Läderach, too expensive and not that great to justify the price.

@AplinsintheAlps Жыл бұрын

Aww we’re so glad that we made you smile!! 😊 That’s neat you can get some Swiss chocolate brands in Australia! Are they made in Switzerland and imported, or just made in Australia! Another viewer commented that the Lindt Chocolate made in the USA doesn’t use Swiss milk so it tasted different. Also, we really love Ragusa as well, yum!

@jvkperspective Жыл бұрын

@@AplinsintheAlps Lindt has a big factory in the Sydney area - so they are made locally. The key factor to good chocolate is the conching time. From a talk I attended here in Melbourne, I vaguely remember that Lindt conches 72 hours (dark chocolate) while most other chocolate brands go for less than 24 hours (so they can make at least one batch per day per machine). Felchlin is the top brand of chocolate in the world (also Swiss) - it is the brand professionals confiseurs use as the base for their products - they are not a retail brand unfortunately.

@ericashima8152 2 ай бұрын

Someone please bring the Oscar for this couple 🤭😹 Im loving your videos, it’s really helping me for my trip to Switzerland next month , I’m super anxious 🗻🥰

@AplinsintheAlps 2 ай бұрын

I wouldn't say we're Oscar worthy 😂 but thanks for the compliment! So glad our videos have been helpful. Hope you have a wonderful trip!

@xrtpyrnh Жыл бұрын

Hahahaha... this is sooo cute hahaha.. i should try this with my friends hahaha

@AplinsintheAlps Жыл бұрын

I bet your friends wouldn’t mind this kind of game! 🍫😋

@peterm2618 Жыл бұрын

I'm Swiss...and I know all the chocolates in your video plus about one hundred other Swiss chocolates! For me Lindt is the number 1. Lindt has dozens of different kinds of chocolate and I love them all! But my personal number 1 is Lindt: Intense Orange!.. and Camille Bloch: Mousse chocolate! You should try them! 😋

@AplinsintheAlps Жыл бұрын

Wow you’re like a Swiss chocolate expert! It’s fun to try all of the different brands and flavors. We’ve heard that the Lindt Intense Orange is a popular choice so we will have to try it. Thanks for the suggestion!!

@steelsteez6118 Ай бұрын

What about Hershey's? 😉

@adriengp1941 Ай бұрын

Did you know that like most of lindt chocolates, orange intense is not even made in Switzerland but in the south of France... 🙄

@sabineedelmann6531 Жыл бұрын

I am definitely tired of Lindt as this is all we can get here in Canada. Migros chocolate and Frey is all I want when I am back in 🇨🇭. I comment here before I watched this video, lol...

@AplinsintheAlps Жыл бұрын

Love that you already know which brands are your favorite! Were you surprised by our rankings for Migros and Frey? We were -especially for milk chocolate! 🍫

@shahbazisina 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this amazing video. I really enjoyed and learned a lot ❤ Could you please tell me what are your favorite swiss cheese? I wanna try and either of you answer is ok for me 😂

@AplinsintheAlps 9 ай бұрын

We should make a Swiss cheese video too! We really enjoy most aged mountain cheeses, particularly from Engadine. But we’re fans of goat cheese too. We try a different cheese every week to expand our palates of Swiss cheese!

@shahbazisina 9 ай бұрын

Sure! I would be the first one who would like the video ahaha. Nice! I should do this strategy as well and looking forward to that video!@@AplinsintheAlps

@MrAlvinSinfulSong Жыл бұрын

In Switzerland now, trying to buy all the chocolates 🍫😂 love Laderach

@AplinsintheAlps Жыл бұрын

🤣 Visit both Migros and Coop to find a variety of brands. And definitely enjoy alllll the Swiss chocolate 😋🍫

@MrAlvinSinfulSong Жыл бұрын

@@AplinsintheAlps will only buy more when I'm heading back XD

@markjonno91 8 ай бұрын

Cailler is deffo my favourite but unfortunately we can't get it in Ireland so have to order online & for me Switzerland are the artists of chocolate!

@AplinsintheAlps 7 ай бұрын

We agree.....no other chocolate can really compare!

@markjonno91 4 ай бұрын

@@AplinsintheAlps 100%. Love to you both guys great video!

@wolfpro180 Жыл бұрын

I live in switzerland and is very cool😃😁 🇨🇭

@AplinsintheAlps Жыл бұрын

You live in a beautiful country!! 🇨🇭

@user-jm5cf2jf3e 4 күн бұрын

在我的國家瑞士蓮比較熟悉雖然語言上聽的很吃力但我會重複聽

@gailgohrick5836 Жыл бұрын

I may have to repeat this when I am there- for purely scientific reasons, of course!!

@AplinsintheAlps Жыл бұрын

Love it, scientific research while on vacation 😉🍫👍

@MikeDubD Жыл бұрын

Where does the famous Toblerone fit into all this?

@AplinsintheAlps Жыл бұрын

Great question! We decided to leave it off the list for this one, mostly because it would have been obvious which one we were tasting due to its shape!!

@JackFate76 10 ай бұрын

Toblerone is owned by the US company Mondelēz since 1990. As of 2022 they are not allowed to call theselves "Swiss Chocolate" anymore since the do not produce in switzerland.

@JackFate76 10 ай бұрын

They even had to change their logo. It is no longer the Matterhorn. but a ficticious mountain that looks similar to the Matterhorn.

@Heitorsant965 Жыл бұрын

Hello, my name is Heitor, I'm 14 years old, I'm Brazilian and I don't have money to buy a Lindt chocolate Could you send me a chocolate

@gailgohrick5836 Жыл бұрын

😂

@MrGreatplum 3 ай бұрын

I bet you guys really hated filming this one 😜 Swiss chocolate must have blown your minds - the “chocolate” you have in the states is an abomination!

@AplinsintheAlps 2 ай бұрын

I love reading all of your comments on our video - it's fun to see you binging all of our content :) And yep, how can we complain about Swiss chocolate?!? (You're gonna do a tasting on your next trip here too, right?!!)

@MrGreatplum 2 ай бұрын

@@AplinsintheAlps - I think I might come back from Switzerland considerably bigger 😆