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Rajala

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  1. 1 hour ago, pastrygirl said:

    Fish mold for @Rajala (or is this you & you already found it? 😂)

    https://www.instagram.com/p/COf47jzjn4Z/?igshid=jifavrvn6vgm

     

    No, that's not me haha. But with that said; that is indeed the mould. Chocolate World seems to have the wrong picture on their website. They have so many old images, they really need to fix their online store. I tried to help an acquainted to find the mould. So we were right all of us somehow? Thanks for trying to help, in the end she found it. Not that Instagram user but someone else. Seems like people in Sweden like that fish. :D

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  2. 3 minutes ago, Jim D. said:

     

    I can think of two possibilities.  CW may have made it for a special order.  Or there is another company, DecoRelief, that makes versions/copies/knockoffs (whichever term you prefer) of CW molds.  I was looking for a cocoa pod a bit larger than the CW one I was looking at and found it through Renée Drolet at Chocolat Chocolat in Montreal.  She would be a great resource for your search.

     

    Thanks, haven't checked Deco. I've seen at least two persons with this fish. I don't think it's custom made.

  3. 18 hours ago, Altay.Oro said:

     

    How can we do that perfect layers in a bonbon?

     

    My guess ... completely fill the shells first with the white ganache, wait and then turn over the mold, drain the ganache ... and after the white layer set in the shells, fill the second layer. Before capping the bonbon, manually trim the white layer a little.

     

    I piped some passion fruit marshmallow in the shell, and then placed a small hemisphere of passion fruit gianduja on top of it. Gently pressing it down. Let the marshmallow set and then close with a layer of chocolate. :)

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  4. 17 hours ago, Jurjen said:

    Haven't heard of that for molded chocolates, I assume you spread a thin layer on the guitar sheet then while it's still warm you invert it on top of the mold and press down?

     

    Yeah, that's a trick when the filling is very very soft. And then scrape the mould "through" the sheet. As Jim describes. I really don't think it's hard though, I succeeded with it on my first attempt. Maybe there was some chocolate left around one of the bonbon, but nothing that I really recall.

     

    Just make sure that the mould isn't cold.

  5. I can try that recipe and run it in the meter for science. :)

     

    However, based on the experience I've had so far, I would say that this ganache is closer to 0,85 than 0,87. But I'm not saying that I'm correct. We'll see! It will be interesting to see. I'm doing some vegan ganache testing at the moment, but can try this when I'm done.

  6. On 4/24/2020 at 10:48 PM, teonzo said:

    Reading cocktail books will give many clues on the use of the bitter taste and how to balance it (mixologists are the masters of the bitter taste), this is something totally overlooked by chocolatiers, which is puzzling since chocolate is bitter.

     

    Any suggestions for cocktail books?

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