accurately: (canned red bean soup is the best food)
Midorima Shintarou ([personal profile] accurately) wrote 2020-05-18 01:42 am (UTC)

Stare at it until it melts.

[ He assumes? It's over the heat now. He double checks the instructions, then nods and gets the candy thermometer, putting the tip in the chocolate. ]

It says we have to heat it to 40.5 Celsius, stir to cool to 27.7, heat again to 29.4. It seems like we're trying to use heat to restructure the molecules in the chocolate.

[ He isn't much of a cook, but this is more like chemistry?? This doesn't sound too awful as he reads through it. ]

It doesn't say why we're doing it, I think it'd be interesting to know.

[ Can they put the chocolate under a microscope at the different stages... he didn't bring a microscope... ]

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