Please don't let this fact persuade you to avoid recipes requiring ingredients like melted chocolate, or more expensively - to go out and buy a double boiler.
Do you have a standard small-medium sized pot? Do you have a mixing bowl? Great - then you can melt chocolate in your very own home!
Here is what to do:
Fill your pot up 1/2 way with water. Place over stove & heat until the water comes to a simmer/almost boil.
Place bowl over the pot & turn the heat OFF. Chocolate burns very easily, creating a gummy, congealed consistency. Turning off the heat slows the melting process only a tiny bit & makes burning the chocolate much less likely.
Once your bowl is over the pot, with the heat off, add 1-2 pieces of chocolate. Stirring constantly, you should start to see the chocolate pieces melting almost immediately. Once these pieces are mostly melted, add 2 more pieces. Continue until all pieces are melted.
I recommend doing this almost immediately before you need to add this ingredient to the recipe. Allowing it to cool some is okay, but you don't want it to re-solidify in your bowl.
Good Luck!
2 Comments:
This is how I melt chocolate too, who needs a double boiler!!LOL!!
I do the same, but in a hot pot because the cooking facilities at school are hopeless. I keep the heat on very low - it works great for impromptu chocolate fondue, too, if you're not picky!
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