Chocolate question

[Heather Ra???se]

On May 2, 2:50?pm, Ruddell

[Cat Man]

On May 3, 10:14?am, Jerry Avins wrote:

Paraffin wax??!! ICK!!!! No WAY! I'd not put that in MY mouth!

John Kuthe...

[NewMummy]

On May 3, 11:40?am, John Kuthe wrote:

You regularly do with chocolate confections. Have you read many
chocolate recipes?

Jerry
--
Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get.

[Low]

On May 3, 10:46?am, Jerry Avins wrote:

No chocolate recipes I use contain paraffin. I will admit that I use
Chocoley.com's Bada Bing Bada Boom compound coating to cover my
Christmas Candy, but AFAIK that does NOT contain paraffin. I know some
use paraffin to make chocolate set up after melting without having to
temper it, but not me.

I make my truffles out of a ganache made from pure real chocolate and
cream, and sometimes butter. NO WAX!!

John Kuthe...

[Denia]

John Kuthe wrote:

So I take it you don't eat regular milk chocolate bars from the store
then.

[shachicagobulls]

On May 3, 11:25?am, Doug Freyburger wrote:

Not generally. I don't care for milk chocolate.

My recent fave is this 65% Organic Free Trade couverature chocolate
from Chocoley.com:

http://www.chocoley.com/FairTradeOrganic.htm

No paraffin in this stuff!

John Kuthe...

[Paul Jason]

sf wrote:

No. Listen to me. I make it professionally.

Do not add cream to chocolate if you wish to make molded shapes. Ganache
will not release from a mold. It is somewhat possible that you can make
molded ganache shapes using a silicone mold--I've never used one--but it
will not work with professional or hobby grade molds made of plastic or
polycarbonate.

Instead, consider lining a mold with a thin layer of tempered chocolate,
letting is harden, then filling the cavity with ganache, letting it set up,
and skim coating the bottom with tempered chocolate. Let this set up until
it releses from the mold when inverted and tapped on a hard surface.

[logan_hayes90]

Jerry Avins wrote:

No good recipe includes wax. Wax was used in the past my amateur candy
makers to avoid having to temper the chocolate.

[Aptiitude]

Doug Freyburger wrote:

Decent milk chocolate does not contain wax.

[akiya]

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My mother used to make various types of chocolate covered goodies and
put paraffin wax in it.