I was melting white chocolate today in my double boiler. It is two years old, tasted fine, and melted fine two years ago. Does the stuff resist melting as it ages? It ended up just being a solid mush. Had to toss it.
2006-12-21 04:17:28 · 10 answers · asked by True Dat 4 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
It went bad.
After 2 years in a cabinet chocolate most likely would. I'm assuming it was kept this way and not kept sealed in a freezer....even so, 2 years?!
It's easy to tell with dark/milk chocolate when it goes bad - the outside will get a white haze on it. With white chocolate...you have to assume it's bad after a few months if not kept properly.
Next question....How can you tell when White Chocolate has gone bad?
2006-12-21 04:19:30 · answer #1 · answered by Zliz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You may have gotten some steam or water in it from the double boiler -- getting water in chocolate makes it into a lumpy, sometimes solid mush.
It's much better to melt chocolate in the microwave -- do it on a low power setting (like 10% or 20%), and stir it every couple of minutes, and it'll melt nicely, with no chance of getting water from the double boiler in it and ruining it.
2006-12-21 12:21:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's too old. It has lost some of it's nutritional content. Also, it could have had moisture in it. Water will make chocolate do funny things. I have tried wrapping up white and chocolate almond bark in freezing it from one year to the next. It usually works, but 2 years it's usually freezer burnt and trash fill.
2006-12-21 12:21:39 · answer #3 · answered by cowboys21angel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
after you melt chocolate, it often resolidifies in a different chemical structure. There are several different structures that chocolate can reform in, and the bast way to get it to cool down in the form you want is to put a piece of solid chocolate in the melted chocolate that is about to cool. Its a pretty neat chemical property of chocolate
2006-12-21 12:26:58 · answer #4 · answered by Brett R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
white chocolate isn't real chocolate and it has probably gone bad or you heated over to high a heat
2006-12-21 12:19:50 · answer #5 · answered by Greeneyed 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It probably went bad
2006-12-21 12:24:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
could've been funky. white chocolate is mostly oil, so it may have gone rancid.
2006-12-21 12:19:47 · answer #7 · answered by alighier 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can add oil to make it the right consistency.
2006-12-21 12:19:15 · answer #8 · answered by gottabuylots 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yea probably aged too much
2006-12-21 12:21:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because it is strong
2006-12-21 12:19:41 · answer #10 · answered by i am not a lovely girl i am cute 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋