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• Valrhona Bonbons

  
  CHOCOLATE RATINGS — Authority: 119
  While I adore a great bar of plain dark chocolate, once in a while it’s luxurious to have a box of little bonbons. Valrhona’s small box of 10 assorted morsels provides a lovely departure from my normal fare. Five of these are dark: mocha, plain dark, jasmine tea, apricot and candied orange peel. The orange peel ...
  6 days ago

• Tempering and Chocolate Candy Making

  
  The Network Vendor — Authority: 130
  You can believe creating chocolate confectioneries is an effortless undertaking. You’ll need a calibrated thermometer, a double boiler, a rubber spatula, molding trays, and chocolates. If you add heavy cream, you’ll have chocolate truffles. Making the chocolate candies doesn’t require exceptional cooking ...
  1 week ago

• Why Your Chocolate Candy Needs Tempering

  
  A Clever Spell — Authority: 133
  A newbie may make the mistake of thinking that making chocolate candies is an uncomplicated undertaking. Hunting down the utensils, you’ll find them easily in the kitchen too: a kitchen thermometer, a double boiler, a rubber spatula, candy shapes, and dark, semi-sweet or milk chocolates. Right there you also have ...
  1 week ago

• Why You Need Chocolate Tempering Machines

  
  The Kisilitas Blog — Authority: 133
  A chocolate, that is crisp, tasty, exotically creamy, shiny and smooth, is an ultimate delight. Tempering is the process that imparts these fascinating qualities into the chocolate; it’s a three-stage process: heating, cooling and reheating. You temper the chocolate by working upon it after melting it. If you ...
  1 week ago

• How to Make Your First Chocolate Candy

  
  The Market Outfit — Authority: 130
  It isn’t a wonder why most people crave for chocolates and give in to this addiction. Some would attest to the fact that chocolates elevate their moods and take away their blues. Fact: gorging on chocolates leads to the release of a hormone called serotonin that facilitates intestinal functions. The unused ...
  1 week ago

• Make Chocolate Candy Your Way

  
  Your Salsa Pub — Authority: 129
  Chocolates can be habit-forming. People consume chocolates because it caters a great deal of benefits simply by consuming it. Chocolate has been know to encourage the release of serotonin in the body, a hormone that not only directs gastric movement but also improves appetites, moods, and dispositions when there’s a ...
  1 week ago

• Valrhona Equinoxe Dried Figs & Crispy Biscuits in Milk Chocolate

  
  CHOCOLATE RATINGS — Authority: 119
  Figs don’t appeal to everyone, but if you love them this is a delicious, original treat. Chewy, sun-dried gems of fruit are enrobed in a 35% milk chocolate. At first, you might think they are coated in dark couverture, but that’s a bit of a costume, for underneath, it’s milk. Along with the chewy bits are ...
  1 week ago

• Valrhona Dark & Milk Chocolate Mendiants

  
  CHOCOLATE RATINGS — Authority: 119
  After meeting Raphael Casteau at Premier Gourmet’s chocolate tasting he sent me a variety of Valrhona products to review. Among them was a box of Mendiants. I happen to be fond of this style of chocolate: flat discs of milk or dark with a trio of hazelnut, pistachio and dried apricot. Though I am generally not a a ...
  1 week ago

• Valrhona Equinoxe: Dark Chocolate Crunchy Pearls

  
  CHOCOLATE RATINGS — Authority: 119
  This 75 gram little drum of 55% chocolate pearls is an unusual product. Tiny bits of crunchy biscuit are enrobed in dark chocolate. The package is adorable, the miniature spheres are attractive, and the taste is like Lilliputian Rice Krispies in excellent chocolate. I like them, I just can’t figure out if they’re ...
  1 week ago

• Valrhona Grand Cru 66% Alpaco & 64% Tainori

  
  CHOCOLATE RATINGS — Authority: 119
  A few weeks ago, at a wonderful chocolate tasting hosted by Premier Gourmet, I got a chance to meet the charming and knowledgeable Raphael Casteau from Valrhona. Not surprisingly, his bars outshone everything else. After sampling the memorable Alpaco and Tainori, I had to buy some to leisurely taste at home. Eight ...
  1 week ago

• The Magic Behind Chocolate Tempering Machines

  
  ragemore.net :: Articles :: News Articles — Authority: 128
  You may whistle in delight if you are given smooth, creamy-textured, shiny and crisp chocolates but do you know how such qualities are bequeathed to chocolates? It is a process called tempering which consists of the triplets of heating, cooling and reheating. You work upon the melted chocolate to impart temper ...
  1 week ago

• Chocolate Tempering Machine Basics for the Newbie

  
  Insider Know — Authority: 129
  Chocolates that are shiny, smooth and creamy will be a feast for anyone but these are the results of the tempering process to which they are subjected to. Tempering, which involves heating, cooling and reheating, also makes chocolates crisp. Melted chocolate is tempered in a proper manner by working upon it. Other ...
  1 week ago

• Why You Need a Tempering Machine When Making Chocolate Candy

  
  Astounding Words — Authority: 132
  You have every reason to rejoice if your chocolates are luxuriously attractive with a creamy texture, smooth, shiny and crisp. But these are the qualities bestowed upon the chocolates by the tempering process . The three steps of tempering are heating, cooling and reheating. You melt the chocolate and work upon it ...
  1 week ago

• Why You Would Want a Chocolate Tempering Machine of Your Own

  
  Anemated — Authority: 131
  If chocolates are attractive with their shine, smoothness, luxuriousness, creamy texture, snappy bite and crispness, you should be aware that all these qualities have been imparted into chocolates by tempering. Heating, cooling and reheating are the processeses involved in tempering. You melt the chocolate and work ...
  1 week ago

• Domori Apurimac 70%

  
  CHOCOLATE RATINGS — Authority: 119
  This delicious chocolate is from Trinitario hybrid beans grown in Peru. It’s fruity, a little flowery, well tempered to an audible snap, and divinely creamy.  Anyone who is familiar with Domori will not be surprised, as they are known for high quality, and deservedly so. Apurimac is one of those more gentle 70% ...
  2 weeks ago

• ESchocolat 55% Dark Chocolate

  
  CHOCOLATE RATINGS — Authority: 119
  Ecuadorean chocolate seems to be the big thing these days, and like chocolate sourced from anywhere, it can range from wonderful (Republica Del Cacao) to not so fabulous. This 55% bar, made from Arriba beans, is in the latter category. It’s tempered to a slightly chewy texture with barely a snap. The flavor? Bland ...
  2 weeks ago

• Understanding Chocolate Tempering Basics

  
  Entivate — Authority: 129
  If you don’t do the tempering of your chocolates, whitish-gray blotches or crystals appear on their surfaces and they may as well be rough and lackluster. You may also find the chocolates coarse to the tongue. Tempering is an important step and most chocolate makers will not skip this because chocolates are not ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tempering Chocolates for Newbies

  
  Useful Electron — Authority: 132
  It’s not only conformity but many better reasons that demand you temper chocolates. Without tempering, whitish-gray blotches will dot the surface of your chocolates and there won’t be any silkiness or polish in them. You’ll find the chocolate gritty in your tongue. No chocolate maker will skip this step ...
  2 weeks ago

• Chuao Choco Pod: “Modena” Strawberry and Balsamic Caramel in 60% Chocolate

  
  CHOCOLATE RATINGS — Authority: 119
  I like to have an open mind, so when I saw this appealing box of Strawberry & Balsamic Caramel filled chocolates by Chuao I bought them.  In the past, I have not always been a fan of their wares. The 2.3 ounce package was $6 and contained six individually wrapped flat chocolates, each about 2″ long.  The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Kendari 60%

  
  CHOCOLATE RATINGS — Authority: 119
  This bar was part of my buying spree at Chocolata.  It’s a great example of how important it is to read labels carefully. I was having so much fun talking with the owner, Steve Jennings, I didn’t do that.  I thought I saw an intriguing 60% bar with only 3 grams of sugar per serving. In a head-set that will never ...
  2 weeks ago

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