In the event you’re conserving your bonbons rather more than per week earlier than consuming, that is once we begin speaking about fridges and freezers.
Nothing That Isn’t Chilly Can Keep
“I not often advise my clients to refrigerate or freeze their bonbons, however it’s not as a result of it could actually’t be achieved. It’s extra that it requires a couple of steps to ensure the bonbons are nonetheless as lovely as they have been after I shipped them,” Coppel notes.
If you already know you are conserving your bonbons for longer than per week, Coppel says, a fridge or wine cooler is your finest wager for conserving 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 sweets choosing 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 normal fridge will do. Coppel cautions that after you retain your sweets within the fridge, it is best to take them out and allow them to attain room temperature once more earlier than consuming.
“In any other case, the fillings might be laborious, and the flavors gained’t come by as a lot as they need to, as a result of chilly inhibits taste notion,” Coppel remarks.
How one can Freeze and Journey With Chocolate
To illustrate you are sending chocolate lengthy distances, otherwise you in any other case have to hold 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 below are Coppel’s directions for freezing at residence, with out subjecting your chocolate to speedy shifts in temperature:
