Why would you? I know some people do it to increase viscosity or shine, but those should be manipulated by the chocolate that you choose and your process - usually pure cocoa butter is more expensive than the couverture. Just curious.

Donny -

Mycryo is comparatively expensive. Cheebs' suggestion is a way to produce essentially the same product for significantly less money.

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Great info...I will try it out.

We only freeze it to grate it. So no, it does not throw off the temper.

Wouldn't using frozen CB throw off the temper?

I have used it before. Has worked best freezing the chunks of tempered CB and then grating them with a Microplane. Start adding at ~95. Used at 1% of the total chocolate weight.

Has anyone tried seeding with cacao butter? What method did you use? Did you melt first then add, or did you add chunks at a time?
updated by @donny-gagliardi: 04/11/25 09:27:36