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amother
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 Tue, May 14 2024, 7:15 am
I was up late baking which, in my tired state, was a recipe for disaster. I balanced my pot with chocolate very precariously over the pot with water and the chocolate pot slipped and tons of water splashed in. My chocolate seized and I couldn’t recover it by adding more water (quantity was too much and I just didn’t have the energy to keep stirring)
It’s $30 worth of chocolate. I really don’t want to toss it. Any advice
Also yes, I know the best way to double boil is with a tightly fitted glass bowl over the pot, but I was tired and too lazy to shlep out my glass bowl. I will not be repeating that mistake. (Late at night anyway  )
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shachachti
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Tue, May 14 2024, 7:20 am
Fixing Seized Chocolate
This may seem counterintuitive, but the way to fix seized chocolate is to add 1 teaspoon of boiling water at a time, then mix vigorously until it becomes smooth once again. This is ideal when planning to use the chocolate for a drizzle or a sauce since the chocolate will be somewhat diluted.
Excerpt from this article
https://www.thespruceeats.com/.....gain.
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amother
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Tue, May 14 2024, 7:41 am
| shachachti wrote: | Fixing Seized Chocolate
This may seem counterintuitive, but the way to fix seized chocolate is to add 1 teaspoon of boiling water at a time, then mix vigorously until it becomes smooth once again. This is ideal when planning to use the chocolate for a drizzle or a sauce since the chocolate will be somewhat diluted.
Excerpt from this article
https://www.thespruceeats.com/.....gain. |
I started doing that but gave up because it was going to take too long. Anything easier I can do with it?
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amother
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Tue, May 14 2024, 8:29 am
Here's a brilliant trick for the future. You don't need a double boiler to melt chocolate.
- Pour about 1/2 cm of boiling water into a 9x13
- put the chocolate (break it up if you can) or chocolate chips into a 2nd 9x13 and put it into the 1st one
- watch you chocolate melt!
you can use 2 glass/metal bowls and it will also work probably even better
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amother
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Tue, May 14 2024, 2:16 pm
| amother Smokey wrote: | Here's a brilliant trick for the future. You don't need a double boiler to melt chocolate.
- Pour about 1/2 cm of boiling water into a 9x13
- put the chocolate (break it up if you can) or chocolate chips into a 2nd 9x13 and put it into the 1st one
- watch you chocolate melt!
you can use 2 glass/metal bowls and it will also work probably even better |
Never thought of that! Thank you
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amother
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Tue, May 14 2024, 2:56 pm
| amother OP wrote: | | Never thought of that! Thank you |
Learned it from a friend of mine in the chocolate business, now I can't even understand what double boilers were invented for!
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