Cool Chocolate Tools

Here are photos of the two items I couldn’t decide on.  Like Hamlet said,  ”To buy or not to buy,  that is the question.” I like the idea of the chocolate thermometer spatula,  even though it has a gimmicky feel to it.  I checked my candy thermometer,  and it doesn’t go low enough to help me with chocolate.  So it turns out that if I want to temper chocolate,  I need a new thermometer.  Have you ever melted chocolate?  It is a mess. I have visions of dropping my thermometer into the chocolate… Yuck!  Well,  I won’t have to worry about that with my NEW Spatula thermometer on the way!  I found a place that would offer me free shipping! Link to chocolate thermometer spatula.

The glorious tools on the left are the tools I have to leave behind – for now.  If they continue to haunt me,  I will have another birthday eventually! Maybe I’ll finish the chocolate book I am talking about writing,  and I can get these as a celebration gift to myself when the book gets published. Link to BakeDeco

Taking it to the next level…

I have spent the last couple of weeks looking at a lot of chocolate tools and supplies companies.  I have done a lot of research on where to shop and what to buy.  I bought stuff!  Ha!  What fun! Within the week I should have some REAL chocolate tools,  and some molds, and transfer sheets to decorate the tops of pieces. I was toying around with the idea of getting some really good chocolate tools.  Oh boy, did I ever see a set that I LOVE!  But instead, I decided to get a much more affordable set.  Then I spent the money I had just saved on other tools and supplies.

Chocospere.com

I am overwhelmed by chocolate.  The outrageous number of people making fine chocolates around the world is incredible.  Visit the chocosphere.com website and stand in awe with me.

•Bringing Fine Chocolates from Around the World to your Doorstep!  They feature 49 chocolatiers from around the world,  including my favorite: Vosges!

Pralus Pyramide

Oh me, oh my…  look what the Amateuer Chocolatier would like to buy.  It isn’t even that I want all the chocolate.  I love the packaging!

Pralus Pyramide des Tropiques

“A very special dark chocolate treat (or gift!). Ten 50-gram bars of Pralus’ single-origin 75% chocolate, each festively wrapped then bound in a cube. The stack contains one bar of each of the following varieties: Papouasie, Indonésie, São Tomé, Trinidad, Venezuela, Tanzanie, Ghana, Madagascar, Colombie, & Equateur. Plan your around-the-world chocolate-tasting tour today!”  I saw this on the chocosphere.com website. I love the pretty colors and the variety of single origin choclates.

Moving a Blog…

Moving a blog is not nearly so bad as moving house.  But, today it sure feels like it.

I had started my chocolate blog under my haydenbrook name thinking it would be easy to change the address of the blog.  It should be very easy to change the address of my blog! I can’t figure out how to do it.  So, like moving from one place to another, I am packing and unpacking each item from my chocolate blog. Why am I doing this?  I want my blog address to say amateur chocolatier. Will I move ALL of it?  Well,  I guess I’ll start out with that intention. I guess all of my original blogs will have the same date, 3/25/10.


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