Does Chocolate Go Unhealthy? Find out how to Retailer It, Freeze it, and Ship It

In case you’re conserving your bonbons way more than every week earlier than consuming, that is once we begin speaking about fridges and freezers.

Nothing That Isn’t Chilly Can Keep

“I not often advise my prospects to refrigerate or freeze their bonbons, nevertheless it’s not as a result of it might probably’t be performed. It’s extra that it requires a number of steps to verify the bonbons are nonetheless as lovely as they have been after I shipped them,” Coppel notes.

If you recognize you are conserving your bonbons for longer than every week, Coppel says, a fridge or wine cooler is your greatest wager for conserving chocolate flavors contemporary and potent. Most sources advocate wrapping bonbons tightly in plastic—or in an hermetic container—earlier than storing in a fridge, to keep away from your sweets selecting up humorous flavors from no matter else is within the fridge.

“When you’ve got a wine cooler, you’re in luck. That’s the very best equipment you need to use to retailer bonbons. Place your bonbons there at 16°C or 60°F (if you wish to be much more exact, the cooler ought to have a relative humidity between 60-70%),” in line with written directions despatched by Coppel.

Failing wine coolers, a extra commonplace fridge will do. Coppel cautions that after you retain your sweets within the fridge, it is best to take them out and allow them to attain room temperature once more earlier than consuming.

“In any other case, the fillings shall be laborious, and the flavors gained’t come by as a lot as they need to, as a result of chilly inhibits taste notion,” Coppel remarks.

Find out how to Freeze and Journey With Chocolate

For instance you are sending chocolate lengthy distances, otherwise you in any other case have to maintain your bonbons longer than two weeks? You possibly can freeze your chocolate for as much as a yr. “Sure, you are able to do this,” Coppel notes, “and all the large chocolate productions do.”

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Listed here are Coppel’s directions for freezing at house, with out subjecting your chocolate to speedy shifts in temperature: