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Sous Vide for Tempering Chocolate

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    Sous Vide for Tempering Chocolate

    Wanted to make chocolate covered strawberries for my better half for Mother’s Day tomorrow. Last couple times I tried this I failed miserably. I decided to do some research on the subject. I’m sure this is not new to most of you but it was new to me. I learned you need to temper the chocolate before you dip your strawberries.

    Watching videos on YouTube I thought this looks like it’s a bit too difficult for me to try. (I have tendencies to not pay close attention to measurements and temperatures when cooking, that’s probably why I have issues baking). I then came across a video or two using sous vide to temper chocolate and I thought that’s seems easy and it was.

    One was using the sous vide tub as your double boiler but that seemed to take too long and I know I would have got water in my chocolate and screwed it all up. The other technique was to just seal them in a vacuum seal bag an chuck them in the water. This seemed right up my alley. Simple with a small chance of failure.

    Found some times and temperatures on the old inter web and off I went. I was using milk chocolate so I used the following temperatures and times:

    115° for 15 minutes then 78° for 15 minutes then 86° for the last 15 minutes. To get the water down to 78° I just removed about 3 cups of water from my vessel and added in 3 cups of ice. It took about 5 minutes to get to 78°.

    I found the following temperatures for dark chocolate:

    120° for 15 minutes then 80° for 15 minutes then 88° for the last 15 minutes.

    There were times and temperatures for white chocolate but that stuff is disgusting and I’ll never need to melt it. 😆

    When all was said and done I removed the bag from the water, dried it off extremely well and snipped the corner and squeezed the chocolate into a small diameter juice glass. It flowed extremely well and the strawberries dipped nicely. After the first 4 strawberries that I dipped I microwaved the chocolate for 10 seconds, dipped the next 4 and then microwaved again for another 10 seconds and then dipped the last 4.

    The strawberries look good and the chocolate tasted great when I sampled some after I let it harden.

    I’ve now learned a new trick with my sous vide. Probably never use the double boiler method to melt chocolate again.

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    The upper left strawberry was the last one I dipped. I was running out of chocolate and the chocolate probably needed heated back up a bit.

    #2
    Pretty nifty - so you just used regular chocolate bars to melt?

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    • ssandy_561
      ssandy_561 commented
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      Just used Hershey’s milk chocolate chips.

    #3
    This is very clever. Nice work and the results look delicious!

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      #4
      Those look great. You're a good husband to spend the time to research and make something special for your wife.

      Kathryn

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        #5
        Dark chocolate chips or milk chocolate chips?
        We have tried this once or twice with varying results but have never tempered the chocolate.
        Great write especially for today.

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          #6
          Originally posted by ssandy_561 View Post
          The upper left strawberry was the last one I dipped. I was running out of chocolate and the chocolate probably needed heated back up a bit.
          You can always eat the evidence.

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            #7
            Thanks for doing the legwork and testing on this. I’m saving your technique for future use.

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