Originally Posted by
Meemur
That doesn't surprise me!
At one point, I was trying to put away chocolate in different forms to see what stored best and took the least amount of effort. I knew that candy bars wouldn't last long and unopened cans of Hersey's Syrup lasted about 9 months in my cupboard (maybe longer, but it tasted "off.")
That's when I found I had the best results with the vac sealed cocoa, followed by blocks of baker's chocolate, also vac sealed and kept cool (2 years for those, for my taste buds -- friends have kept those longer).
YMMV. I don't have a deep basement or root cellar.
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