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From cacao pods to grandma's verdict at Nick's Kitchen

"Every Way To Use Chocolate" gathers bars, brownies, cakes and cookies into a single cooking guide.

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Nick's Kitchen Story of October 23, 2026Trari Newsroom

No. 71 on the daily chart No. 4 on the Food chart

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

Every Way To Use Chocolate

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1:15Cacao beans ferment in a banana leaf-lined bucket before drying and roasting.
4:47A stone grinder refines the chocolate before Nick tempers it on marble and pours it into molds.
8:21Gently heating the eggs and sugars while whipping helps create the brownies' shiny, crackly crust.
11:08Hot water blooms espresso and Dutch cocoa powder for a three-layer chocolate cake.
23:17Butter and cocoa powder coat the ramekins to help the lava cakes release.
29:07Cookie dough chills for a full day before portioning, a brief freeze and baking.

Nick's grandmother gets a brownie delivery and gives it a precise verdict: "It's good. It melts in your mouth." After the fermentation, roasting and grinding that open Nick's Kitchen's chocolate guide, this is a rather more personal quality check.

"Every Way To Use Chocolate" has reached roughly seven million views, making it the most watched of the channel's three uploads this week. It's a sponsored compilation of chocolate recipes, beginning with raw cacao pods and ending with chocolate chip cookies served over vanilla ice cream. Viewers are recognizing earlier segments, while others are asking for a series devoted to homemade versions of familiar brands.

The useful details go well beyond adding more chocolate. Nick browns butter for his brownies, gently heats the egg-and-sugar mixture while whipping it for a crackly crust, and blooms cocoa and espresso powder in hot water for his layer cake. The cookies get browned butter too, followed by a long chill before baking. These are separate projects, not a suggestion that dessert needs to start with a bucket of fermenting beans.

Away from the chocolate marathon, "Grilled Cheese" and the newly posted "Stretchy Potatoes" supplied the week's savory options. The chocolate guide carries the most daily momentum, followed by the potatoes, while the older "Watermelon Jell-o" remains active.

The channel added about 110,000 subscribers over seven days, and daily views are now more than triple its usual pace. Among nearby food channels, Chef Tyler had a particularly large week for total views; Nick's Kitchen also drew a substantial weekly audience, with its chocolate guide already among its most-watched regular videos.

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homemade chocolate hits different
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16:04 I love the little chocolate cake matilda scene in a picture frame in the background, lol.
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"Legend has it, Nick whetstones his butter knife before making toast."
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You should make a series of videos about making homemade versions of brands.
@Juno2011az1See it on YouTube
Eating homemade chocolate brings so much childhoods memories
@Ghost-ツ亗See it on YouTube
11:19 I don't know why I just find that part so funny 😂😂 "it's cake time"😂
@nolancrawford8417See it on YouTube
OGs will know that the choc chip one is from an old video!
(but the recipes are still AMAZING!!!)
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