Tempering Chocolate in a Microwave


Preparation Time: 5 minutes
Cooking Time: 10 minutes
Cuisine: British
Category: Chocolate
Tempering Chocolate in a Microwave - Recipe Image

A quick method for tempering chocolate that's particularly useful for tempering small amounts of chocolate at home.

TOP TIP

You can also blend the bowl of chocolate with an immersion blender to speed the seeding process up.

Use the chocolate straight away. If it starts to harden or become too think, blasting it with hair dryer can keep in warm enough to use.

Ingredients

Chocolate of your choosing

Method

1. Place your chocolate in a plastic bowel and microwave on full power 10 seconds at a time. Stir well after every heating.
2. Melt the chocolate until about 80-90% of the chocolate is melted but there are still lumps of unmelted chocolate.
3. Stir the chocolate until the lumps have melted into the chocolate. The lumps will still be in temper and will seed the out of temper melted chocolate with the cocoa butter crystals necessary to bring the whole bowl of chocolate back into temper.

Instructional Video by Tim

A quick method for tempering chocolate that's particularly useful for tempering small amounts of chocolate at home.

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