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Old Sep 21, 2012 | 3:59 pm
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Originally Posted by tfar
Too bad that happened to the chocolate, although I am not sure why it happened. Even if you mix water into chocolate it will not harden the chocolate. After all you can make a hot chocolate out of molten chocolate and water (milk is preferable but water works). You say you mixed a batter in it. Maybe the temperature difference was simply too big. I don't know what was wrong.

Till


Yes, it's clear you don't know what went wrong. Here's a short explanation of what went wrong:

http://www.chocolate.com/recipes/the...chocolate.html

Interesting that this website says not to use butter - the chocolatier I studied with did use butter to rescue a tightened chocolate.
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