CALLING Chocolate experts: I just got this email from my sister about chocolate percentages...

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luisa_calif

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"Now I'm at the choc. coating stage. The recipe calls for "dark chocolate" (62%) and I'm in a quandary for what to do. I have Ghirard. semi-sweet choc. I have gourmet 72% (extra bittersweet) choc. for baking, I have a big bar of Merken's Yucatan Dark Chocolate...Two of which seem okay but do not list the % of cacao.

Do you have a quick suggestion as to the choc or mixture of chocolates that I could use? I know it's often pretty important which you use when you're melting it. The other ingred. (may be a ganache, I don't know) are 2 T. dark rum, 2 T heavy cream, 1 T sugar and 1/4 cup water. Whisk over heat till all is melted and smooth."

Any suggestions? I did have Alice Medrich's book "Bittersweet," but I gave it away, otherwise I could have looked it up.

 
Semi-sweet is anywhere from 52 percent to 62 percent. Then

63% to 72% = bittersweet and greater than 72 is extra bittersweet (from Fran Bigelow).

Is the Ghiradelli bar chocolate or tempered chips? Since they called for 62, I wouldn't go with more than 1/3 of the higher percentages.

 
Here is the text of Marilyn's post for those who can't access it

Semi-sweet is anywhere from 52% to 62%. Then 63% to 72% = bittersweet and >72% as extra bittersweet. (from Fran Bigelow).

Is the Ghiradelli bar chocolate or tempered chips? Since they called for 62%, I wouldn't go with more than 1/3 of the higher percentages.

 
I got into it by going up to the address bar and deleting the percent characters. Hit enter, and

you see your post. I didn't know if it would work or not, but I gave it a chance, and voila!

 
My sister went with the Yucatan Dark for the ganache and said it turned out great.>>

I will send her the info on the other chocolates so she can use that in the future. Thanks everyone!

 
Ha! I just use Mozilla to get INTO the post and my new perks as moderator to edit it. Yea!

Using Internet Explorer (IE), I couldn't even see the link address in the address bar. But Mozilla displayed it. Thanks Lisa and Dawn!

 
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