How can you tell if chocolate is already tempered?
I have some bulk Bernard Callebaut milk chocolate chips.
Chocolate – How to tell if the chocolate is tempered
chocolatemelting-chocolatetempering
Related Topic
- Baking – Are there any situations where untempered chocolate is better than tempered
- Chocolate – Why do patterns appear on tempered chocolate
- Chocolate – Tempered chocolate spheres in advance
- Chocolate – Can tempered chocolate be seeded with a different chocolate
- Chocolate – Tempered chocolate melting easily
- Chocolate – Tempering untempered chocolate
- Chocolate – Tempered chocolate thickens
Best Answer
If it has a shiny/reflective surface and doesn't melt or bloom (much) at room temperature or hand temperature, then it's already tempered. Virtually every packaged chocolate is already tempered.
Untempered chocolate generally needs to be refrigerated for longer-term storage, so if a package doesn't specify refrigeration (and I've never seen one that does), you can assume that it is tempered.