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I've done this! You can also cut a small square of diffraction grating and put it on top of a hardening chocolate candy (like an enrobed square of ganache) to m

by hwayne 2y ago

I've done this! You can also cut a small square of diffraction grating and put it on top of a hardening chocolate candy (like an enrobed square of ganache) to make decorate a completed chocolate: http://whoisgood.dog/img/chocolate-diffraction-picture.jpg http://whoisgood.dog/img/chocolate-diffraction-picture.jpg Also tip: easiest way to temper a pot of chocolate is with an electric hand-mixer. Wait until it's 32C, mix for fifteen seconds, bam tempered.

knicholes 2y ago
It's pretty easy to put the chocolate into a tempering machine, push a button, then walk away, too.
- Felomo 2y ago
  It's pretty easy to just order the chocolate and just doing nothing yourself... You do understand that a trick is something different than buying a machine for the job right?
  - knicholes 2y ago
    ... Using a hand blender is using a machine for a job too, isn't it?
    - DiggyJohnson 2y ago
      GP's point is that responding to an aside about how to do something with a snarky "or you could just buy a dedicated machine" will come across as obnoxious. This should be obvious to you or anyone.
      - knicholes 2y ago
        What's obnoxious is someone claiming they have found the easiest way but then refusing to accept an easier way.
    - hwayne 2y ago
      A tempering machine costs hundreds of dollars and wouldn't fit in my apartment kitchen. The hand mixer was ten dollars and fits in my drawer. Also, this is advice to anyone who wants to try it for themselves. Isn't "buy a hand mixer and some diffraction film" an easier onramp than "buy a whole tempering machine?"
    - tiagod 2y ago
      It's using machine for the job, which is different than buying a machine for the job. A hand mixer is cheap and has endless uses. A chocolate tempering machine has a single purpose. Makes sense to get one if you're making chocolate in large quantities.
  - knicholes 2y ago
    You can't buy tempered, melted chocolate easily. If you want to cast it into a mold, you must melt and temper it or melt it very carefully.
buck746 2y ago
I found the easiest way was vacuum sealing some chocolate and sticking it in a souvee at 92f overnight. Agitate a bit after it's melted and a while before removing it from the warm water. I use the method for making tempered cocoa butter to use as seed in my tempering machine. The exact temperature varies by type of chocolate. The trick is getting it just below the point that type 5 crystals form. It's perfect to make seed chocolate for when I use the tempering machine, saves a lot of time and there's the convenience of having a big pool of chocolate for molding, it's better to have a bigger pool than you need so that when you pour out molds you can do it directly into the working pool.

by hwayne 2y ago

knicholes 2y ago

It's pretty easy to put the chocolate into a tempering machine, push a button, then walk away, too.

Felomo 2y ago
It's pretty easy to just order the chocolate and just doing nothing yourself... You do understand that a trick is something different than buying a machine for the job right?
- knicholes 2y ago
  ... Using a hand blender is using a machine for a job too, isn't it?
  - DiggyJohnson 2y ago
    GP's point is that responding to an aside about how to do something with a snarky "or you could just buy a dedicated machine" will come across as obnoxious. This should be obvious to you or anyone.
    - knicholes 2y ago
      What's obnoxious is someone claiming they have found the easiest way but then refusing to accept an easier way.
  - hwayne 2y ago
    A tempering machine costs hundreds of dollars and wouldn't fit in my apartment kitchen. The hand mixer was ten dollars and fits in my drawer. Also, this is advice to anyone who wants to try it for themselves. Isn't "buy a hand mixer and some diffraction film" an easier onramp than "buy a whole tempering machine?"
  - tiagod 2y ago
    It's using machine for the job, which is different than buying a machine for the job. A hand mixer is cheap and has endless uses. A chocolate tempering machine has a single purpose. Makes sense to get one if you're making chocolate in large quantities.
- knicholes 2y ago
  You can't buy tempered, melted chocolate easily. If you want to cast it into a mold, you must melt and temper it or melt it very carefully.

buck746 2y ago

I found the easiest way was vacuum sealing some chocolate and sticking it in a souvee at 92f overnight. Agitate a bit after it's melted and a while before removing it from the warm water. I use the method for making tempered cocoa butter to use as seed in my tempering machine. The exact temperature varies by type of chocolate. The trick is getting it just below the point that type 5 crystals form. It's perfect to make seed chocolate for when I use the tempering machine, saves a lot of time and there's the convenience of having a big pool of chocolate for molding, it's better to have a bigger pool than you need so that when you pour out molds you can do it directly into the working pool.