Does Chocolate Go Unhealthy? Retailer It, Freeze it, and Ship It

In the event you’re protecting your bonbons far more than per week earlier than consuming, that is once we begin speaking about fridges and freezers.

Nothing That Isn’t Chilly Can Keep

“I hardly ever advise my clients to refrigerate or freeze their bonbons, but it surely’s not as a result of it could possibly’t be performed. It’s extra that it requires a couple of steps to verify the bonbons are nonetheless as lovely as they have been once I shipped them,” Coppel notes.

If you already know you are protecting your bonbons for longer than per week, Coppel says, a fridge or wine cooler is your finest wager for protecting chocolate flavors contemporary and potent. Most sources advocate wrapping bonbons tightly in plastic—or in an hermetic container—earlier than storing in a fridge, to keep away from your sweets selecting up humorous flavors from no matter else is within the fridge.

“If in case you have a wine cooler, you’re in luck. That’s the very best equipment you should utilize to retailer bonbons. Place your bonbons there at 16°C or 60°F (if you wish to be much more exact, the cooler ought to have a relative humidity between 60-70%),” in accordance with written directions despatched by Coppel.

Failing wine coolers, a extra customary fridge will do. Coppel cautions that after you retain your sweets within the fridge, it is best to take them out and allow them to attain room temperature once more earlier than consuming.

“In any other case, the fillings might be arduous, and the flavors received’t come by way of as a lot as they need to, as a result of chilly inhibits taste notion,” Coppel remarks.

Freeze and Journey With Chocolate

For instance you are sending chocolate lengthy distances, otherwise you in any other case must preserve your bonbons longer than two weeks? You possibly can freeze your chocolate for as much as a 12 months. “Sure, you are able to do this,” Coppel notes, “and all the massive chocolate productions do.”

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Listed here are Coppel’s directions for freezing at residence, with out subjecting your chocolate to speedy shifts in temperature: