I need help melting white chocolate...?!
Can anyone give me tips or advice what I can do like is there a different method besides double boiler that might work? Thanks.
Answers: I'm making chocolate covered pretzels for Christmas and I have a double boiler happening and I'm having trouble with the white chocolate and was hoping to get some advice about it.... It doesn't want to stay melted and its not because of the temperature, like the water is hot enough in the pot and I've tried it on low heat and hotter but it doesn't want to completely melt anymore.It was working OK when I first started and the milk chocolate worked fine and stayed melted.
Can anyone give me tips or advice what I can do like is there a different method besides double boiler that might work? Thanks.
Try using a SMALL amount of Crisco to the white chocolate, it will thin it out a bit and make it easier to work with.
I myself wouldn't use a micorwave to melt chocolate, as they don't heat things consistantly, so where one part of your chocolate is melting, and doing well, another area is burned, and will end up tasting scorched!
Best of luck to you!
double boiler looks fancy but really all you need is the microwave. Load up a bowl with some chocolate and put it in there for a minute. Check how it is after that, stir it a little, and repeat. Works fine.
You will have to coat the pretzels pretty quickly either way. Chocolate doesnt like to stay in liquid form for a long time
You may have gotten some water in the chocolate by accident. You will probably have to trash it and start over. Maybe you could try adding just a tiny amount of oil and heating it again. good luck!
Microwave !!
Put it in for about 60 sec -- or 1 min!!
If you think you can melt the chocolate one time and coat all the pretzels, it doesn't work that way.
Any kind of chocolate requires constant work. Chocolate prefers being solid.
To add to Chris' answer: when the chocolate begins getting hard or setting up, put it back in the microwave to re-melt it.
After coating, put the coated pretzels on a pan with wax paper.
DON'T refrigerate the pretzels. They'll get soggy.
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Ron Berue
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Try using a Microwave. It might be less of the work. Possibly less burnage. lol Hope it helps. ;D