How do you melt chocolate????????

Question

I tried using a microwave and saucepan but it burned---- I think I'm just doing it wrong. By the way i dont have a double boiler! So can someone please give me instructions or webpages on how to melt chocolate!Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

Melt chocolate in a regular oven. It takes longer, but having a toasty-warm oven to return the chocolate to between batches means you don’t need special warming trays to keep it from hardening.

Place each flavor of chocolate in an oven-safe glass bowl. Don’t put more than a pound of chocolate in each bowl or it may not melt completely. Heat the oven to 300 degrees for 10 minutes, then turn it off. (This is important! If you place chocolate in the oven while it’s still on, it will scorch and ruin.)

Leave the chocolate in the oven for 25 minutes. It won’t look like it’s melted, but once you begin to stir it, it will mix to a glossy smoothness. The chocolate is now ready for candy making. (If the chocolate doesn’t melt completely or has large lumps, you can repeat the above steps to re-melt it.)

Above directions from Internet Source listed below. My personal experience is to melt Almond Bark Chocolate in metal round 9-in. cake pan in oven at lowest temp. (170 deg.) It doesn't take long--perhaps 10 mins. I leave oven on, and take pan out for dipping pretzels or making chocolate peanut clusters. I usually stir in a little peanut butter for flavor and oil. If it stiffens up before I am done, I just put it back in the oven for a little while.

Answer 2

If you use a microwave, only heat for a few seconds at a time and stir often. This requires patience.
You don't have to have a double broiler, just two pans, one smaller than the other. You have to be careful not to get any water in the chocolate though.
I'll also melt it by holding the pan a good distance up from the burner, so the pan gets just warm enough to melt the chocolate but not burn it.
You have to stir a lot with all of the above methods.

Answer 3

Best way is to make a double boiler. What you do is get a sauce pan and boil some water in it. Then you take either another sauce pan or a glass bowl and set it inside the pan, but so that the water does not get into it. You then place the chocolate into the bowl on top and let it melt. This will keep it from burning.

Answer 4

I dont have a double boiler either, and my family absolutely loves chocolate covered strawberries. So when I need to melt chocolate I put it in a sauce pan on the lowest heat possible and stir a lot! It takes a little longer than the microwave, but its well worth it! Hope this helps!

Answer 5

You don't have to use a double boiler as long as you have
a smaller saucepan to sit into a larger one that the two don't
stick together. Hubby suggests you try a metal bowl in the
boiling water of the larger pan. He has improvised with alot
of things now that he's become the chef in the house :). I
would think if you used a Corning bowl or mini dish of that
type with a covering so as not to splatter, you could melt the
chocolate. Maybe you left it in too long or had it set too high?
I would have thought that would've worked.
Well try the small pan or bowl in the larger pan of water and
that should work. Stand by with an oven mit to hold onto the
bowl if you use one. Cuz you wouldn't want to scald yourself.

Answer 6

I found the best way is to plce in a sauce pan a put on the lowest possible heat that you can get on your stove. Stirring frequently this is a long process, but if you plan on coating strawberries it is very important that you do not over heat the chocolate or it won't set up right. This is called tempering chocolate. If the chocolate is tempered properly it will reharden and won't melt when you touch it. Chocolate tempered improperly may or may not reharden, but if it does reharden it will start melting as soon as you touch it.

An electric fry pan also wwokrs set an the lowest setting, and rember to stir constantly.

When chocoalte is melted remove from the heat source and do your dipping you may have to return to the heat source as the chocolate may start to harden before you are finished.

Answer 7

Use a saucepot of boiling water and a heat proof mixing bowl that sits about a quarter of the way into the saucepan. Also, don't use too high a heat, you don't need to have a rolling boil (like you use to cook pasta) just above a simmer is fine and stir the chocolate periodically.

Answer 8

if you melt it in microwave, you will not think it is melting because it doesn't lose its shape so you have to do it for 30 sec to a minute at a time and stir in between.

also you can put a large sauce pan with water then a smaller one that will fit in it with chocolate. turn burner on low heat, stir frequenty.

the main point is patience

Answer 9

fill a pot with water not all the way though just about half. boil it. then break a cocolate bar into pieces and put in a glass bowl put the bowl over the pot on the stove and the steam from the pot will slowly melt the chocolate but you have to constantly be stirring so it wont burn. good luck!!

Answer 10

a double boiler is easy to make with two pans, in one pan put the water in and bring to a boil, in another pan that fits in the pan with water put the chocolate, it will melt without burning, make sure you do not get any water in the melted chocolate