What is the best chocolate to use to make brownies?

If you like dark chocolate I think Bournville is the best for cooking. I have never had good results with cooking chocolate.

I don't use cooking chocolate either. The dark chocolate in Aldi is very good in my brownies.

When I used to make them I used cooking chocolate with no problems. Either Tesco or Lidls.

I never use cooking chocolate either- I just but the best quality chocolate I can afford.

You can tell I don't bake often- but when I do I like it to taste good!

I make Nigella Lawson brownies very occasionally. They are packed with very best dark chocolate, eggs, butter, sugar, walnuts etc.
These are delicious.
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Hi MollyNew
I made my first ever brownies on Sunday. They are not what I’d choose to eat but my granddaughter wanted to make them with me. I used Lidl dark and milk chocolate and they were absolutely amazing. A friend who does a lot of baking recommended Lidl cooking chocolate and it’s really very good. The dark one is 52% cocoa solids and the milk is 40%. They sell higher cocoa content at the sweets/chocs area, but as the result was extremely rich and chocolatey, I would use it again. It’s also not as expensive as regular eating chocolate and tastes like normal chocolate.

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I'm going to try Bournville and Lidl chocolate. I'll just have to make several and do some taste testing

I don't like Bournville. I find it very sweet and it only has 36% cocoa solids in it.

There was a test of supermarket plain chocolate in this week's Feast supplement in the Guardian. Green and Black's Organic,was rated highly. Willy's was the best, more expensive but I can attest to its' quality.

Green and Black's.
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I never use cooking chocolate in anything - I usually just go for a supermarket own brand, preferably dark chocolate - Aldi and Lidl are both quite good, I find.

Green & Black's? That brand has a choice of cocoa strengths right up to 85%.

I can report that I used Bournville for my first attempt and we were happy with the result, chocolatey but not too strong. We also bought the Lidl chocolate so we can do a taste test another time.