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Post by run222 on Jul 20, 2010 11:38:52 GMT -5
Hi all,
After months of making dark chocolate, I want to try to make some milk chocolate. I can only find non-fat milk powder in my grocery store. Although I know I can buy the regular milk powder on this website (and others), I want to start a batch this weekend so I need the milk powder ASAP.
My question is: is there a significant difference in taste in milk chocolate when using non-fat vs. regular milk powder? Would the chocolate taste worse using the non-fat stuff and thus wait to get the regular milk powder? Also, if I use the non-fat, would you recommend using a little more cacao butter then I would normally use to try to off-set the lower fat in the milk powder, or will it not make any difference?
Thanks, Adam
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Post by Sebastian on Jul 20, 2010 12:42:17 GMT -5
Yes, flavor changes. NFDM has much less milk fat, which oxidizes easily, thus reducing the shelf life from a flavor perspective of the raw material. NFDM + AMF is a much nicer combination for two reasons - one you can control the shelf life via storage conditions of the AMF much easier, and it helps with viscosity reduction as all your milk fat is no longer 'bound' to the milk particle as it is in whole milk (read, you may need less cocoa butter to achieve your target viscosity).
The key will be to get water free milk fat (AMF). Land o' Lakes does sell it, although it can be hard to find. Ghee can also be used, but has a different flavor to it than does AMF.
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Post by deborah on Jul 20, 2010 16:55:12 GMT -5
Depending on where you live, you still might be able to get whole milk powder before the weekend, but you'll have to think beyond your regular grocery store. If you have a Whole Foods Market nearby (or similar high end health oriented market), you can almost always find powdered whole goat's milk like John sells here. If you live anywhere near a Mexican or Latin grocery store (e.g. Vallarta in Southern California), you can usually find powdered whole milk, esp. common chocolat company often boycotted for it's other products and marketing Nido brand. Americans don't normally consume much powdered milk, so you won't normally find anything buy nonfat in regular grocery stores. However, I have on occasion seen Nido in the regular grocery store, but you have to visit several to find it. And it will cost you a lot more than it would at the Mexican grocery.
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Post by run222 on Jul 21, 2010 11:12:25 GMT -5
Yah, I checked Whole Foods, Trader Joes and several local grocery stores and none sold whole milk powder. But I did find the Goats milk powder and I think I will do what you suggested, use the Goats milk powder (I wanted to make goats milk chocolate anyway at some point) for this weekend and order the whole milk powder on-line for future.
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Post by cheebs on Jul 21, 2010 11:28:40 GMT -5
Amazon has all the Nido you may want. Just do a search for "whole milk powder" and a slew of options will come up.
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