The question on a chocolate shelf is weight per door, because nobody prints a valuation and a 24-door box can weigh 180 g or 850 g. Cadbury's Dairy Milk Adult box is 348 g for 10 GBP; Kinder Bueno is 181 g for the same money; Hotel Chocolat's Grand is 855 g. The score follows the chocolate and the count: a box of mini balls behind twenty-four identical doors is a three, a box that names its pralines and puts a full bar on Christmas Eve is a four.
Most of it is milk chocolate. The exceptions are the ones to look for: the Teddy Sleigh is the only Lindt Teddy box with white LINDOR in it, the Nuss Sélection is the nut range, and Hotel Chocolat's Velvetiser box is drinking chocolate (sixteen recipes across twenty-four sachets) rather than a piece behind each door. For a child, the Kinder, Kleiner TEDDY and HELLO boxes; for an adult, Hotel Chocolat or the Nuss Sélection.
Step 01
Read the weight before the door count
Twenty-four doors can weigh 180 g or 850 g, and nobody on a food shelf prints a valuation, so grams per door is the figure that separates a box of mini balls from a box of bars. The calendar pages print the weight where the maker does; a 24-door box under 200 g is a taste a day, over 500 g is a real piece.
Step 02
Prefer a printed list, or know why there is none
67 of the 67 here come with the maker's list of what is behind the doors — Ahead 2026, Cadbury Dairy Milk Adult 2026 and Charbonnel et Walker James Bond 007 2026 among them; 0 do not. Where a maker will not say what is behind door nine, the page says so, and the score reflects it.
Step 03
Compare the price per door
Across the 67 here with a list price, a door costs from about $0 to about $15, and the median is about $0.92. A chocolate door under a dollar is a mini ball; a door over three dollars should be a bar or a named praline. How the door price is counted →
Step 04
Start from this season's, from the ones we have opened
67 of the 98 on this page are 2026 editions and every one carries a verdict from us. The earlier editions stay listed for the record; the grid puts this season first.
