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Tempered chocolate for Easter
« on: April 05, 2012, 02:45:55 am »
This is prob too late for those of you making your own Easter chocolates this year...BUT at the Adelaide cooking class Tenina gave us instructions for tempering chocolate. Well, i did it last night and it worked!!!

Very simple. Grate chocolate in 250g batches. (I used 500g in total but Tenina used 2kg). Melt at 37 degrees, speed 1 for 40 mins. Then pour into mould or do whatever you want to do with it and you'll have that lovely gloss and most importantly the snap when you break it or bite into it. Thanks Tenina!
Clare from Adelaide, mum of 3 littlies :)

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Re: Tempered chocolate for Easter
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2012, 02:48:44 am »
There is also a video of how to temper chocolate on the new, free Dani Valent In the Mix app, downloadable from i-Tunes.
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Re: Tempered chocolate for Easter
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2012, 06:49:44 am »
Helene's Superkitchenmachine website also has a link  to a series of small videos from Callebaut Chocolate Master using thermomix to temper chocolate and do other wonderful things.

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Re: Tempered chocolate for Easter
« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2012, 11:49:45 am »
Do you mean 4 minutes, or 40 as written  ???

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Re: Tempered chocolate for Easter
« Reply #5 on: April 06, 2012, 01:07:44 pm »
Lee, it's 40 minutes.
A great cook is one who can rustle up a fabulous family meal with some freezer burnt chops, wilted carrots, sprouting potatoes and cabbage that's gone brown on the cut edges.
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Re: Tempered chocolate for Easter
« Reply #6 on: April 06, 2012, 01:46:29 pm »
thanks for clarifying meganjane :)

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Re: Tempered chocolate for Easter
« Reply #7 on: April 08, 2012, 08:04:31 am »
40 minutes seems a really long time compared with other instructions on the web using the thermomix!  Wonder if Tenina can clarify for us?

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Re: Tempered chocolate for Easter
« Reply #8 on: April 08, 2012, 08:22:54 am »
I will email Tenina and get her to clarify this as anything I have read also says only a few minutes.
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Re: Tempered chocolate for Easter
« Reply #9 on: April 08, 2012, 12:08:22 pm »
I followed the instructions above, and on the link (50 for 4 minutes), and I preferred the later method. Results seemed the same. But... I'm not chocolatier.

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Re: Tempered chocolate for Easter
« Reply #10 on: April 08, 2012, 03:36:52 pm »
Whoops, no, it's 4 minutes...
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Re: Tempered chocolate for Easter
« Reply #11 on: April 09, 2012, 10:38:35 am »
Hi guys,

It depends what result you are after…for perfect tempered chocolate (as in glossy with a snap to it) you will need to go the full 40 minutes…at 37oC…and not less than 250g in my opinion…

For just plain old melted chocolate you will need at least 4 minutes if not a little longer.
If you are adding something to the chocolate as a medium, milk, oil, crio bru, cream, butter, you can go to 50oC without any dramas…hope this helps.

A little late for a Hoppy Easter, but you get the drift for next year right?

I will do a tempered choccie recipe on the blog soon….
xx

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Re: Tempered chocolate for Easter
« Reply #12 on: April 09, 2012, 11:31:24 am »
Thermie Crew, have to take my hat off to you for getting this one right - you must have a better memory than me as I couldn't remember what Tenina said at the class  :-))
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Re: Tempered chocolate for Easter
« Reply #13 on: April 09, 2012, 11:46:48 am »
Phew, glad I was right after all. Worried that I'd gotten it wrong and led people up the garden path  :-)). Judydawn, if anyone says the word 'chocolate', my ears prick up stright away!! And at Tenina's talk I was madly scribbling down her gems of wisdom.
Clare from Adelaide, mum of 3 littlies :)

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Re: Tempered chocolate for Easter
« Reply #14 on: April 09, 2012, 11:49:07 am »
I think I spent too much time watching the expressions on her face and not enough time listening thermie crew  :D :D :D :D
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