If you happen to’re retaining your bonbons rather more than every week earlier than consuming, that is after we begin speaking about fridges and freezers.
Nothing That Isn’t Chilly Can Keep
“I hardly ever advise my clients to refrigerate or freeze their bonbons, nevertheless it’s not as a result of it will possibly’t be executed. It’s extra that it requires just a few steps to verify the bonbons are nonetheless as lovely as they have been after I shipped them,” Coppel notes.
If you recognize you are retaining your bonbons for longer than every week, Coppel says, a fridge or wine cooler is your finest guess for retaining chocolate flavors contemporary and potent. Most sources suggest wrapping bonbons tightly in plastic—or in an hermetic container—earlier than storing in a fridge, to keep away from your candies selecting up humorous flavors from no matter else is within the fridge.
“When you’ve got a wine cooler, you’re in luck. That’s the most effective equipment you should utilize to retailer bonbons. Place your bonbons there at 16°C or 60°F (if you wish to be much more exact, the cooler ought to have a relative humidity between 60-70%),” in keeping with written directions despatched by Coppel.
Failing wine coolers, a extra customary fridge will do. Coppel cautions that after you retain your candies within the fridge, you need to take them out and allow them to attain room temperature once more earlier than consuming.
“In any other case, the fillings might be onerous, and the flavors gained’t come via as a lot as they need to, as a result of chilly inhibits taste notion,” Coppel remarks.
Easy methods to Freeze and Journey With Chocolate
For instance you are sending chocolate lengthy distances, otherwise you in any other case have to maintain your bonbons longer than two weeks? You possibly can freeze your chocolate for as much as a 12 months. “Sure, you are able to do this,” Coppel notes, “and all the large chocolate productions do.”
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Listed here are Coppel’s directions for freezing at residence, with out subjecting your chocolate to speedy shifts in temperature:
