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Instant coffee melts like chocolate
This also happens with common unsweetened instant coffee (without chicory) if you allow it to cake and then try to heat in a pan or any other kind of heat that is concentrated on a specific spot or ...
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Is butter ever the same after having been melted?
Butter may look totally amorphous, but there's actually a fair amount of structure in the fat, in particular fat crystals that make it firmer. Melting it disrupts all that structure, and it can't ...
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Is butter ever the same after having been melted?
Part of making butter is churning... the churning process introduces a ton of air into the butter. When you melt it, all of the air is released so you should never expect melted butter to return to ...
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Is butter ever the same after having been melted?
There is indeed a physical change that occurs.
If you think back to grade school science you probably remember learning about solutions and suspensions, and how the former is a mixture that stays ...
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How can I melt mozzarella balls?
Very simply, with heat from above.
I cannot comment on the microwave, since I have almost never used one, but a pan is clearly the wrong tool for the job, since there you are heating the bread from ...
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Melting yellow cheese for savory pancakes or crêpes
One simple option is to shred the cheese. The heat moves from the surface of the pancake into the cheese - so a thick slice has to melt all at once, and from the bottom up, and it may not melt in ...
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How can I melt mozzarella balls?
Mozzarella balls, particuarly the almost "Fluorescent" white variety, contain a lot of water. To get them to melt successfully, you need to get that water out.
What I do is slice the balls ...
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If a cheese sold as pasta-cheese does not melt, is it "cheese"?
That's a processed cheese product. It may be allowed to be called cheese in some places, but that's a matter of product labelling regulations where you happen to be.
The melting is a different issue. ...
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Melting yellow cheese for savory pancakes or crêpes
However adding more cheese means making the row thicker and sometimes not all the cheese melts. I am looking for a way to add more cheese while still getting it all to melt
One thing you can do is to ...
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Melting yellow cheese for savory pancakes or crêpes
The method that you describe says you put all the cheese in a row, if you make that row thick it's going to have a hard time melting. Instead of a thick line spread the cheese out evenly across the ...
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Why does adding commercial processed cheese to fondue change its consistency?
The magic is from Sodium Citrate
Most mass produced cheese it based on "cheddar blends". Basically large (50 Kg to 1 Mg) blocks of cheese are made in a milk factory. When a consumer product is to be ...
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Melting Temperature of Mozzarella Cheese?
This is tricky because you don't really want the cheese to melt, you want it to become pliable enough to roll. When making fresh mozzarella, the curds are heated in 90 - 100 degree F water to make ...
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How can I melt mozzarella balls?
First off your best bet is going to be an oven/air fryer but a pan should also work.
Secondly, you are probably using the wrong type of mozzarella. What you want for things like pizza and other ...
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How can I melt mozzarella balls?
"Real" Pizza tends to have the balls broken up or sliced and done under intense heat.
I've had decent luck getting fresh (balls in brine) mozerella to melt in a toaster oven simply by ...
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Mixing Ghee with Other Ingredients
There's two methods for this, which can also be combined.
The first, as several people have mentioned, is to make sure that the eggs and water are slightly above room temperature. At 27C/80F ghee (...
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Melting yellow cheese for savory pancakes or crêpes
Use a microwave to pre-heat the cheese. You'll need to experiment with timings for your cheese/quantities/microwave, but it's easy enough to microwave cheese until it's almost melting but not quite. ...
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Melting yellow cheese for savory pancakes or crêpes
I'm going to take something from Megha's answer and go a bit further.
I think what you want is a quesadilla. A crêpe (which is the kind of pancake I think you're referring to) is very similar to a ...
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Solubility of chocolate in water and fat
So I think there are two big players in your experiments. Chocolate is complicated, and I won't pretend to know it all though. Chocolate has two big, arguably essential components: cocoa butter and ...
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How do I separate my melted rock candies?
If you can get them out of the jar, I would suggest a hammer.
Put them in a plastic bag and whack them with the hammer.
You might be able to use a knife (carefully) to pry them apart depending on ...
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Mixing Ghee with Other Ingredients
If the ghee was too hot, the eggs would cook on contact with it, so you can simply increase the temperature. Melting it in a heavy bowl (ceramic or Pyrex) would hold a bit more heat, even at sensibly ...
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Does cottage cheese melt like other cheeses?
No. Cottage cheese is a type of acid coagulated cheese, much like ricotta, feta and farmers cheese. It will continue to have lumps when heated, which will never be smooth.
The other type of cheese ...
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How do you cook margarine with brown sugar without separating?
I’ve had this problem several times with melting brown sugar and butter together and boiling it. The key is to start on a lower temperature, stirring the brown sugar and butter as it melts. Allow the ...
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how to coat truffles with chocolate
Working with chocolate is so tricky!
Introducing even a tiny amount of water to melted chocolate will cause it to seize. The water could come from unexpected places: steam from a double boiler, ...
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How do I choose between shredded and finely shredded cheddar cheese?
You probably want to check for the lowest proportion of added anti-caking agent (here potato starch is used). That's the reason it doesn't melt very well.
If you're going to freeze it, you could ...
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Unmeltable cheese
Melted cheese is a mixture of mostly protein, fat, and water. The protein (mostly casein) will tend to clump into rubbery bits, but is held apart by the fat and water, giving the melted cheese texture ...
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Should I have been able to melt white chocolate and marshmallows together?
This is definitely possible, though I should add that the addition of melted butter would be crucial.
Do not simply toss "raw" marshmallows into the melted white chocolate, as they will ...
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Melting yellow cheese for savory pancakes or crêpes
Rather than melting just a handful of cheese, you might consider making a cheese sauce. Simply make a roux of butter and flour, add cold milk slowly while whisking, then add grated cheese in ...
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Can milk chocolate candy be used as a chocolate substitute in fudge?
Fudge is candy. Like all candy making it is built on a concentrated sugar syrup. Fudge is differentiated from other candy in that it is encouraged to form tiny crystals and is high in fat.
The ...
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How long can melted salted caramel last?
If it's got milk or cream in it, then refrigerate it. Otherwise pure sugar and salt doesn't really spoil. As a general rule dryer goods take longer to spoil, and fat/oil is very difficult to spoil.
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How long can melted salted caramel last?
Do you mean that you made salted caramel today or melted it into a sauce?
If you mean made it, keep it loosely covered in a cool, very dry place, not the fridge. Moisture is the enemy of caramel and ...
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