Kerry Beal

Yeah right!

You are correct - I should have said it's the blower on the enrober!

That's the blower on the Selmi that does that.

Was just going to post exactly the same thing! I buy mine in 30 kg pails from a local bakery supply. And in the past I've found the bottles of Happy something brand in a local bulk food store - think they were around 1 kg and didn't cost too much.

Where in Canada are you located - I’m sure we can find you some glucose fairly easily?

I've got this funny little sponge I picked up at the Japanese dollar store that does something different than other sponges - it's not as firm as it appears Used it on this one with the orange cocoa butter, backed by bronze powder if I remember correctly. I should probably start wring stuff down.

Welcome @Sehkai. You have early on discovered what we all know - chocolate is the boss and she will take every opportunity to teach you that! Couple of thoughts - did you put the molds in the fridge for a bit after pouring the shells? Do you think your shell might have been too thin? It kind of looks like the shell didn't retract from the mold which the initial fridge step might have helped with. I'm a fan of putting my molds on the short edge after scraping - opinions vary considerably on this one - but I think it gives a nicer back.

Art Pollard @Art here on eG made a rather respectable bar with the erythritol/monkfruit sweetener made by Lakanto.

Here's the Basque Cheesecake - baked 450º F in the Blumlein on convection setting for about 35 min. This is the recipe I used - 7" pan with 1 1/2 recipe.

Did all the things I would normally do to get a brown bottom on my bread in the CSO. The stone seems to be just too far from the heat to warm up no matter what I did. I stopped short of putting my metal 'stone' in there.

Yup - didn't brown any better on the stone.

I do wish I had the ability to compare. I'm not completely impressed with the Blumlein - doesn't get the bottom of my bread brown so I've gone back to one loaf at a time in the CSO. Does fine with a pullman pan though. I'm doing the debate about getting a wall steam oven and getting my counter back.

I have that one

Basque Burnt Cheesecake apparently

I must be the only person who sent books in her direction! Back in 2006 I discovered I had several copies of one of Jancis Robinson's wine books and I offered one to anyone on eG who wanted it. Suzi was very excited to get her hands on one - a true book person. Every now and then she'd get reading about an interesting chocolatier that I might be interested in and send along a link to an article or website. It's nice to know that someone thinks about you.

Ah - pictured something much different with lots of little holes.

Perhaps being captain obvious - but could you put them in the mold bottom first so that the fine tops are the ones that face the backing off chocolate?

Excellent to see you in there Jessica - was actually a bit blown away when I realized just how many of the folks mentioned have an EZtemper!

That's a very attractive looking loaf!

Oh yes - and welcome Caitlyn!

Could be sponged white backed with blue

Much cheaper here

Yours look way better than the picture you posted above!

How about this?

So does your imaginary loaf pan have to be 4 by 4 instead of 4 by 8 or could it be just a much smaller pan - cause there's lots of those out there?