To temper chocolate, you need a double boiler, a cooking thermometer, and a rubber spatula. The process of tempering involves heating and cooling chocolate to specific temperatures. Tempering ...

I won't sugarcoat it (until later that is); tempering white chocolate is by no means an easy process. Why should you bother? Well, tempering chocolate melts the chocolate to a specific temperature so ...

I'll be honest here. For all these years of working with chocolate, I've only melted it. This recipe convinced me it is worth the effort to learn how to temper it. What is tempering, you ask? It's the ...

Quick tempering couverture chocolate: This method must be used with already tempered chocolate. The idea is to melt it without having it become untempered. Tempered chocolate is glossy and snaps when ...

There are few things in cooking that give me “the dreads” quite like tempering chocolate. It’s a time-intensive, persnickety process that is overwhelming to deal with — and for someone like me, who’s ...

In my life as a pastry chef, I’ve always held fast to the belief that there are certain flavors -- specifically coffee, lemon and chocolate -- that are best taken to the extreme. If I create a coffee ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. That glossy sheen of a fresh new bar of chocolate and the reassuring snap when you break into it are results of the chocolate being tempered ...