• Question: how many have you experimented on

    Asked by hardcore parkorist to Ross, Tom, Blanca, Abi Aspen on 8 Mar 2016. This question was also asked by Katherine and sam.
    • Photo: Ross Miller

      Ross Miller answered on 8 Mar 2016:

      Chocolates? Not that many to be honest!
      We tend to try new processes, new equipment and new products with Cadbury Dairy Milk and Milka. Everyone in Europe is familiar with those two. In the case of Cadbury’s, people from Malaysia, Argentina, Brazil, Australia and India are also familiar with it. So if you’re trying new things, you can try it out on someone from anywhere in the world to see their reaction.

      We do do some work on different chocolates like Lacta from South America, Suchard from Spain and Alpen Gold in Russia. But because most of the people in Bournville are from Europe, we don’t really connect with them on the same level and it’s too different to pick out small differences.

    • Photo: Abi Aspen Glencross

      Abi Aspen Glencross answered on 10 Mar 2016:

      how many experiments have I run?

      Lots but never enough!

      We are always experimenting. We read a lot of literature, some of which is conflicting, so you have to try and recreate that and then use it to find something new. However in research you have to redo the same experiments lots of times to check it works!

      Plus cells are a pain, they never do what they are told! 😀

      My supervisor says always save time for ‘Friday afternoon experiments’ which are the ones that sound a bit ‘out there’ but you never know what you might find 🙂

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