Should you’re preserving 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 prospects to refrigerate or freeze their bonbons, nevertheless it’s not as a result of it could’t be finished. It’s extra that it requires just a few steps to ensure the bonbons are nonetheless as stunning as they have been after I shipped them,” Coppel notes.
If you realize you are preserving your bonbons for longer than every week, Coppel says, a fridge or wine cooler is your greatest guess for preserving 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 sweets 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 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 response to written directions despatched by Coppel.
Failing wine coolers, a extra commonplace fridge will do. Coppel cautions that after you retain your sweets 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 will probably 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.
Find out how to Freeze and Journey With Chocolate
For example you are sending chocolate lengthy distances, otherwise you in any other case have to maintain 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 large chocolate productions do.”
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Listed below are Coppel’s directions for freezing at house, with out subjecting your chocolate to fast shifts in temperature: