I have a recipe that calls for a double boiler, I don't have one. What can I use instead?!


Question: I have a recipe that calls for a double boiler, I don't have one!. What can I use instead!?
I don't have a double boiler, and a recipe calls for use of double boiler!. What can I use instead!? I need to melt some chocolate, I know you can use a microwave, but I do not want to, didn't really work out for me in the past!. And there is also another step in the recipe that I need to use db for!. I need to know what can I use instead and the proper way to use it :)
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Answers:
what ever you do when melting chocolate keep the water away from the interior of the bowl the chocolate is in!. use a medium or small pot and fill about 1/3rd to 1/2 with water and place a larger bowl to sit on top of the pot and over not in the water!. let the steam to the melting for you not the water!. simmering is best not boiling water!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

If you have a metal bowl or a pyrex type heat resistant bowl, place it in a large pot of boiling water!. You can also use a large pot with boiling water and put the chocolate in a smaller pot inside!. Just be careful not to burn your fingers when you're improvising! also, if you have a microwave steamer, you can easily melt chocolate in it!. I have the pampered chef one and use it frequently to melt chocolate!. Www@FoodAQ@Com

You can fill a small saucepan halfway with water then put a metal or glass bowl over it and lightly boil or simmer the water!. The water underneath will make steam and act as a double boiler, this is what I always use because I don't have a double boiler as well and it works great!. Then put the chocolate in the metal or glass bowl and the steam will melt it!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

Just take a pan, fill it a few inches with water!. Place a glass bowl on top of your pan, and put your chocolate in the glass bowl!. The heat from the bottom pan with water will melt the chocolate!.

Much easier to melt in the microwave!. Microwave for 30 seconds, stir, then continue for 30 seconds until melted!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

Do what everyone else said with the pots!. you can also you a metal silver bowl on top!. thats what i use!. you just want it to sit on top of the pot not the water!. if you are melting chocolate dont let any of the the water touch the chocolate!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

Do what me and my roommate do, take a pot and fill it with water then get a metal or other heat resistant bowl that is big enough to rest in the pot without sinking all the way into the pot, place the chocolate in the bowl and melt awayWww@FoodAQ@Com

Put water in a pot and boil it, put a smaller pot with the chocolate in the pot with the water and you have a double boiler!.
Big pot with water
Smaller pot with chocolate!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

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