My second day of chocolate making. Same bars and hearts as shown before. Things went more smoothly. Still mess, but mess was less.
Some observations:
The KitchenAid Precise Heat Mixing Bowl shuts off after about ten hours if no timer is set.
Only two quick checks with the thermometer -- I've learned that I can pretty much trust the bowl to do its thing.
A Zerostat works before unmolding to prevent finished pieces from attracting all the little chocolate fragments in the kitchen.
Edit: since it was in a different thread, here's what *not* using the zerostat looked like...
