HappyAvocado
Senior Cook
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- Jul 29, 2005
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argh. i make chocolate covered strawberries all the time. usually i take a bag of semi sweet chocolate chips, a pat of butter, melt them on low heat in a pan, wash some strawberries, pat them dry, and dip em. works every time. so this time i have this 10 lb bar of milk chocolate that i chopped some small chunks off of... same procedure. the chocolate immediately turned grainy, like it does if you accidentally get water in the mix... but i there was no water. it never really melted either, went straight from solid to a sort of fudge consistancy. what gives? i tried it again, same thing. is it that the chocolate is milk and not semisweet? the bar is of high quality, so that should not be an issue. very frustrated here, i have a dinner party tonight and i picked chocolate strawberries because they are so easy! any tips?