Questions tagged [tempering]
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Why heat milk and use it to temper eggs instead of mixing cold milk and eggs and slowly cooking the whole thing?
My understanding of tempering (similar to the answer here) is that you're attempting to add egg to a hot mixture slowly enough so that you don't curdle the egg, so that it incorporates in the mixture instead of making, say, scrambled eggs inside of…
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Can I add cocoa butter to 100% chocolate
I have several kilos of 100% Grenadian chocolate bars that are old. I enjoyed them when they were fresh but now they are dry and, although they still 'snap', somewhat crumbly. I would like to temper them and add cocoa butter to increase the creamy…
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