How To Melt Chocolate

I'm going to show you how to melt chocolate, just melt chocolate plain and simple, and how to do it correctly so the result is to have in the end is what you want, what you can use to make whatever it is that you are making. First of all, get some water in the pan and put it on the heat and then get a bowl, top of the water. You want to bring the water up to the heat, you don't want it to boil, you just want it to simmer.

Then take your chocolate, put it into the bowl. Take a spatula and then as the water comes to the heat, you just want to agitate it to allow the chocolate to melt. The reason why you want to melt your chocolate over water like this is that water boils at a maximum of 100 degrees.

So, it's a controllable temperature, whereas if you try to cook it directly on gas or electric stove, there is a chance that because of the fat and the sugar, you may burn the chocolate and it will spoil it. So, this is the safest and best way to simply melt the chocolate. Okay.

So, turn the power off, all the chocolate is now melted. Here we go. Any residual heat in there will keep it warm and then you can use it whenever you like, covering strawberries, covering cakes, whatever you like.

And that's how to simply melt chocolate. .