You need to be able to cook properly. And how to melt chocolate, butter, margarine, fats for baking, so they do not burn, do not stick to the dishes? It is known as: in a water bath. Only not every hostess uses this design, preferring faster ways of melting in dishes with direct contact with fire or a hob. You can also put these products in the oven for a short while.
Only the result may differ from what is expected. To not then alter the dish, changing the product, and not scrape the dishes, you still need to ask what a water bath is, and how to properly do it.
What is a water bath and what does it need for
The bath is a multi-valued word. Water - does not mean a building filled with water. And it does not imply the bathing of food and dishes.
To create it, you need 2 cooking containers. These can be pots, small metal cups( basins), glass bowls, enameled cups.
An important condition after the material of the vessels is their size. When you plan to use a water bath, you will need one vessel with a large diameter, and the second with parameters is slightly smaller, so that it freely enters the first.
We build a water bath
The bottom, that is, large and necessarily metal, utensils should be partially filled with clean water and put on fire for heating. Fill it is about a third or a quarter of the volume.
If there is too much liquid, it will try to boil away, and a smaller vessel will start to be pushed out. Why she will go on a free voyage, at the risk of overturning.
Heat the water to boil. And after that, do not remove from the heat, until the mass in a smaller vessel does not melt.
How to properly use a water bath
Set a small saucepan / mug with its contents in the still cold water of the bottom bowl. Although it is possible and hot, but to put it in this case will not be easy, and in no case can it be done with glassware, which in this case can simply burst. Well, if the handles firmly fix the position, leaning against the side of the large, then the movement of the dishes will be avoided.
Leave the dishes in each other until the water boils completely and the oil, honey and chocolate dissolve evenly. Vegetable infusions will have to be held longer, until the end of infusion. A small vessel can be covered with a lid to speed up the melting of the product, but then it will be more difficult to monitor the process.
Sometimes a clean piece of cloth is placed in the water bath to fix the dishes. And already it is installed a smaller vessel for stability.