Hi! My name is Jennifer and I am co owner of a candy making business called C&J Subtleties. I have just recently been turned on to Tribe.net and am loving everything about it. So what has everyone been working on? Im dying to make a recipe called nipples of venus that has to do with a dome shaped white or dark chocolate mold with a syrupy/sugary nut filling. Anyone every made these before?
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Re: Waves Hello!!
Fri, July 1, 2005 - 3:37 PMWell I have done the large breast molds and filled them with what ever the customer desired, it was fun and some of the requests were pretty interesting..I also have a bussiness on the side it is called Sweet-N-Sticky it is fun and interesting. We should chat sometime... I hope this helped, and glad to here any posts you care to share with us. Take care and have a great 4th of July!!!
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Re: Waves Hello!!
Tue, July 5, 2005 - 2:40 PMSure. They are frequetly topped with a nut as teh "nipple" itself.
I like using chocolate covered coffee beans for this. just as a different taste. :-)
it is so hard to work with chocolate this time of year. everything is sticky, nothing holds it's temper...
I don't have AC, so i just avoid doing much molding. any one else have similar issues. -
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Re: Waves Hello!!
Wed, July 6, 2005 - 8:51 AMWOW you think its sticky in Denver? You should try a week in the true midwest!! Or the bay area, Having grown up in Longmont, and lived in Denver for years and years (actually started playing with chocolate while living in Denver) I never had the experience you are having. Generally speaking I find the humidity for me anyway has very little to do with tempering. Chocolate by its high fat content, would naturally tend to repel moisture rather to absorb it. Chocolate does seem to benefit from a humid enviroment during manufacturing however. Do you experience the same issues during the winter when the humidity in CO hovers at 15-30% What has the humidity been like lately? I haven't been home in a few months. Being in San Francisco I can assure you that high humidity doesn't seem to affect what I am working with. Are you using the same brand of chocolate? Are you using couveture? Could be that your ambient temp is just to darn warm.... if the room temp is high its tough to get your chocolate to the right temp for its fat content, same would apply to a lesser degree if it was way to cold. Are you letting your molds set at room temp or in the refrigerator? Freezer? lots of factors to consider, maybe try working after sundown, when its cooler and you actually have a higher humidity level, and see if that makes a difference..... just some thoughts hope it helps -
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Re: Waves Hello!!
Wed, July 6, 2005 - 1:22 PMSorry, i'm not very clear these days. by "everything is sticky", i meant the chocolate. it never fully hardens... it remains in this strange state.
hardly surprzing as chocolate melts at 82* and the outside temp is generally 90 or 95.
waves to an ex longmonter. :-)
lots of factors to consider, maybe try working after sundown, when its cooler and you actually have a higher humidity level, and see if that makes a difference..... just some thoughts hope it helps
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yeah, if i really have to work, that's what i do. and i've created a "storage" for the molds which has ice in an ice chest, then a few layers of asorbant toweling... it keeps the ambiant temp of the ice chest at or around 50-60 which helps.
But it gets really tricky. :-)
mostly, i just make mouse and cheese cakes this time of year.
;-)
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