lundi 2 mars 2015

Why do patterns appear on tempered chocolate?


Sometimes, during a single session, spots and lines may appear on tempered chocolate. This seems to happen with the first third of production.


Chocolate with spots Chocolate with lines


Chocolates produced later in the batch do not exhibit any pattern:


Chocolate without any pattern


Why is that? How can this be prevented? Is it caused by poor tempering?


Chocolate is Valrhona 66% Caraïbe (but it happened with other chocolate of the same brand), and tempering was done by controlling temperature with water baths following a 52-55C / 28-29C / 31-32C schema. Chocolate was maintained at working temperature by periodic water bathing each time its temperature dropped below 31-30.5C.





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