In case you’re holding your bonbons way more than per week earlier than consuming, that is after 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 possibly’t be accomplished. It’s extra that it requires just a few steps to ensure the bonbons are nonetheless as stunning as they had been after I shipped them,” Coppel notes.
If you understand you are holding your bonbons for longer than per week, Coppel says, a fridge or wine cooler is your greatest guess for holding chocolate flavors recent 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 candies selecting up humorous flavors from no matter else is within the fridge.
“You probably have a wine cooler, you’re in luck. That’s the perfect 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%),” in accordance with written directions despatched by Coppel.
Failing wine coolers, a extra commonplace fridge will do. Coppel cautions that after you retain your candies within the fridge, it’s best to take them out and allow them to attain room temperature once more earlier than consuming.
“In any other case, the fillings shall be exhausting, and the flavors gained’t come by as a lot as they need to, as a result of chilly inhibits taste notion,” Coppel remarks.
Freeze and Journey With Chocolate
For instance you are sending chocolate lengthy distances, otherwise you in any other case must maintain your bonbons longer than two weeks? You may 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 here are Coppel’s directions for freezing at house, with out subjecting your chocolate to fast shifts in temperature: