Seeding chocolate method with Hot Mix Pro

[sote23]

Hi Everyone,

I just purchased a Hot Mix Pro Gastro. The first thing I did when I get it is to temper chocolate in the machine. I followed the instructions ( has a program built in) and the chocolate was not tempered at the end. I'm sure this is similar to tempering in a thermomix. Any idea why it didn't work? So the program for tempering dark chocolate calls for 600 grams of dark chocolate that you add to the bowl. The machine chops it and melts it for 10 mins at 48C, then you add 400 grams of unmelted chocolate, which the machine cools down to 26C for 5 mins, then it holds the tempered chocolate at 32C for up to 4 hours.

 

Luis

[Kerry Beal]

Luis - did you check the temperatures of your chocolate at each stage?

[sote23]

Kerry,

No, I didn't check it, I guess I should even though it's programmed to that temp, does the temp sound right from what I wrote?

Luis

[Kerry Beal]

Hard to say -  I know when I've tempered in the TMX that I've added seed and hit the higher speeds to get it to melt in.  Been a while!

[sote23]

The speed is at 2 when tempering for the program, maybe I should bump up the speed.

Luis