It might sound like a cryptic crossword clue but there’s more to it than that! There are lots of gadgets out there that help with lots of things in the kitchen – blow torches, mandolins, spice grinders but you might think "Is it hygienic to use a hairdryer in the kitchen?"
Well, for those who work with chocolate a hairdryer can be considered a very useful gadget in the kitchen to melt chocolate but also to reheat it when it becomes too thick to work with properly ie it starts to set or gets too thick to pour or dip chocolates properly. In other words it helps in slightly re-melting chocolate to keep it in the right temperature range to work with properly. However, be careful not to overdo it as it could bring the chocolate too much out of temper in which case you’d have to temper it again or you could burn it or have chocolate all over the walls and floor if you have it too high!
I’m sure my wife wondered why I was using her hairdryer in the kitchen and hoping I wasn’t getting chocolate in the vent or on the controls. However, a tip I learned while watching Paul Wayne Gregory at a chocolate demo in the Whitgift Centre in Croydon is to wrap the handle in cling film to ensure that any melted chocolate you get on your hands is not transferred to the hairdryer. All you need to do when you’ve finished is to remove the cling film and you have a clean handle. This can also be done with any other utensil with a handle – palette knives, scrapers.
And what other tools do you need? Well, I'll explain some of these in another post.
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