In case you’re protecting your bonbons rather more than every week earlier than consuming, that is once 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 might’t be executed. It’s extra that it requires just a few steps to ensure the bonbons are nonetheless as lovely as they have been after I shipped them,” Coppel notes.
If you understand you are protecting your bonbons for longer than every week, Coppel says, a fridge or wine cooler is your greatest guess for protecting chocolate flavors contemporary and potent. Most sources advocate wrapping bonbons tightly in plastic—or in an hermetic container—earlier than storing in a fridge, to keep away from your goodies choosing up humorous flavors from no matter else is within the fridge.
“If in case you have a wine cooler, you’re in luck. That’s the most effective equipment you need to use 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%),” based on written directions despatched by Coppel.
Failing wine coolers, a extra normal fridge will do. Coppel cautions that after you retain your goodies 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 arduous, and the flavors received’t come via as a lot as they need to, as a result of chilly inhibits taste notion,” Coppel remarks.
How you can Freeze and Journey With Chocolate
For instance you are sending chocolate lengthy distances, otherwise you in any other case must hold your bonbons longer than two weeks? You’ll be able to freeze your chocolate for as much as a yr. “Sure, you are able to do this,” Coppel notes, “and all the massive chocolate productions do.”
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Listed here are Coppel’s directions for freezing at dwelling, with out subjecting your chocolate to speedy shifts in temperature:
