How to Melt Chocolate Chips
Hello, Good People. How is your day? If you are ready for the weekend, don’t forget sweet treats for your family at home. Surely, your little ones will adore chocolate chips. If they want something new, melting them sounds like an idea.
How to melt
chocolate chips? Believe it that
there are more than one ways to do so. Before you decide to start an
experiment, check out some of these options below.
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What is the Best Way to Melt Chocolate?
Before we go to chocolate chips, let’s start from the basics. How to
make the chocolate melt? Is there the best way to melt it?
Surprise, surprise. It turns out that melting chocolate is easier said
than done. If you leave it too long, your chocolate will not turn into the
perfect liquid you might imagine. It will burn. Even a few seconds count. If
you do not melt it long enough, you will not get the liquid chocolate that you
want.
There are two ways to melt chocolate (not just the chippie version of
it). The most famous one is with a microwave. We will get there later. Let’s
start with knowing how to melt chocolate on the stovetop.
Melting chocolate on the stovetop
This method is more preferred since it is more accessible. Not many
people own a microwave at home. Plus, using a microwave may use up a lot of
electricity in some homes.
The best thing about melting chocolate this way is you get to control
the heat. The simmering water will steam, which will help the chocolate to melt
slowly. That way, your chocolate will not burn. You get to watch and enjoy the
process as well.
For a double boiler, bring a medium-sized pot. Fill it with a little
half of water so it can simmer. Have a heatproof bowl on top of the pot. Make
sure the bowl is big enough, so it will not get stuck deep in the pot. Then add
some chocolate chips or chopped chocolate bar into the bowl.
With stove heat set to low, start stirring the chocolate with a rubber
spatula. Keep doing so until it turns liquid. The liquid has to look silky
smooth.
After that, remove the bowl from the double boiler. Wipe the bottom dry
with a towel. The last thing you ever want is to let your chocolate liquid come
in contact with water. Water will only ruin its texture.
How to Melt Chocolate Chips in the Microwave
What is the best
way to melt chocolate chips besides using a stovetop? Microwave is
the answer. Although it is faster than the other method, you still need to
watch the process carefully. Here are what you need and how to do it:
Things you will
need:
- Chocolate chips (If there are none, you must cut the chocolate into
smaller pieces.)
- Microwave safe bowl
- Spatula
- Microwave
Just like with the other method, use a bigger bowl. That way, you will
not have to worry about having chocolate spatter everywhere while you are
stirring it.
What is the size of the spatula? It depends on how much chocolate you
are planning to melt. You can use the mini silicone one if it is not that much.
If it is a lot of chocolate, choose the bigger spatula instead. The best thing
about spatula is that you get to scrape the chocolate chips once they turn
liquid.
How to melt chocolate chips in the microwave:
When it comes to melting the chocolate in the microwave, make sure that
the chocolate is cut into smaller pieces first. If it is chocolate chips, it is
easier. That way, the microwave will not work so hard as it may do so if the
chocolate is still in a big lump instead of in chips.
This is why when it comes to microwave use, chocolate chips are always
faster to melt.
Have the chocolate in a heatproof bowl. Place it in the microwave for 30
seconds maximum at a time. Each session, stop to stir the chocolate for a few minutes.
If it is chocolate chips, you do not have to put them in the microwave that
long. You may only need 20 seconds for that.
When the chocolate starts looking lumpy, don’t put it back into the
microwave. Keep stirring as hard as possible until it turns liquid.
To make the texture of the chocolate liquid more smoothly, add a
tablespoon of coconut oil before putting it into the microwave. You can also
use vegetable oil as an alternative for that. The result is the perfectly
consistent chocolate liquid for dipping.
So, how to melt chocolate chips? Now
you know two ways to do so, Good People. It is your call to choose which option
is more comfortable for you. What matters is that you get the chocolate liquid
that you need.
As usual, thank you for sticking around to finish this article, Good
People. Now, are you ready to melt some chocolate?