Tool Time & Chocolate Curls
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 5:31PM 
Tool Time the kitchen tools and gadgets I love
Yes, it's a veggie peeler! A sharp vegetable peeler is used in chocolate work to trim up those rough edges & ties in with a couple of email enquires I had this week asking how to make the small chocolate curls I used in the Colouring Chocolate entry earlier this month.
Curls are made straight from a block, bar or in the case of my coloured chocolate "a blob". Hold the chocolate in one hand and firmly and evenly run the peeler down the narrow side. Pressing firmly gives you a tight curl, not as firmly gives a softer curl. The curls have a slightly wood-grain appearance.
tight curl & two partial curls
blobs of chocolate for the small amount of coloured curls I needed
finished chocolate curls
My peeler of choice to do this? An Oxo Good Grips swivel peeler, it's sharp and the rubber non-stick grip makes it so much easier to hold. I have two, one for chocolate work and one for the veggies!
After different curls? Try combed chocolate curls.
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