On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:36:10 -0700, "Bob Terwilliger"
> wrote:

> Gloria wrote:
>
> > You don't melt chocolate in the microwave? What do you use, a double
> > boiler? I'd have a microwave around if all it did was melt chocolate.
>
> I use a microwave. Chocolatiers shun double boilers because they're afraid
> of getting water into the chocolate.

Commercial chocolatiers? Yeah, the people who take something simple
and make it complicated, like Alton Brown, do it differently. A
microwave is fine for "melting" a home amount of chocolate, but if I
was doing it in any significant amount - I'd find another way.

> Alton Brown uses a heating pad wrapped
> around a glass bowl, which seems like a nifty way to do it if you're not
> afraid of getting chocolate on your heating pad. The heating pad method can
> also be used to temper the chocolate, which is something a microwave can't
> do.
>


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