Use same chocolate to dip different ganache flavors?

[DavidH]

When you dip your ganache centers in chocolate, do you use the same chocolate for all flavors, or do you use a separate chocolate for each flavor?

[Kerry Beal]

I tend to use the same unless I'm after some special effect.

[JeanneCake]

Admittedly, I am dipping cheesecake lollipops and not fine chocolates - but I have a separate bowl for flavors that have nuts in them (e.g., almonds, pecans) and only use that container for those flavors so I can assure people that there is no cross contamination with nut products. I have a killer peanutbutter cheesecake that I haven't made in years and people are clamoring for it to return as a cheesecake lollipop but because of the whole nut allergy thing and peanut allergies being so much more serious than just breaking out into hives, I'd need yet a third bowl just for that flavor ....

[Kerry Beal]

I guess it raises the question - are you asking if we use the same bowl of chocolate for dipping everything or the same type of chocolate for dipping all our products? I see JeanneCake and I have interpreted it differently.

[DavidH]

Same bowl of chocolate. If you have 4 different ganache flavors, do you use a separate bowl for each, or dip all flavors in the same bowl? Just wondering about flavor transfer from one to the next if I used the same chocolate to dip in.

[RWood]

The only time I do a separate bowl is when I have nuts involved. I know several people with nut allergies, so I try to keep the risk of contamination down. I don't think you would have to worry much about flavor transfer. I've never noticed anything happen like that.

[Kerry Beal]

Same bowl - and dip the nut stuff last.

[RobertM]

Is it just me? If you're dipping Peant Butter Cheesecake Lollipops, why are you concerned about nut allergies?? People with nut allergies shouldn't be eating peanut butter anyway??? What am I missing????

[JeanneCake]

Is it just me? If you're dipping Peant Butter Cheesecake Lollipops, why are you concerned about nut allergies?? People with nut allergies shouldn't be eating peanut butter anyway??? What am I missing????

the fact that I'm not making them.

I gave up making the PB cheesecake years ago because peanut allergies are more life threatening than other nut allergies. and I can confidently say to my clients that there are no peanut products in our kitchen but there are other nuts like almonds, hazelnuts, pecans, macadamia nuts and walnuts. Many of my customers who remember this cheesecake want me to make it again but I don't.

I use two containers of white (one for the heath bar pops and the other for the rest), and two containers of the dark and milk so there is no chance of cross contamination.

[pringle007]

I dip everything in the same chocolate as well.