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How I know I have time management issues: I decided to make a double batch of scotcharoos today between making a double batch of beer bread and a double batch of chocolate-and-peanut-butter-chip scones.

How I know I've learned from past time management mistakes: I at least started trying to melt the butterscotch mini-chips when the beer bread dough was in its first proofing stage, rather than after I had measured out all of the other scotcharoo ingredients. It didn't save me from getting out of work late, but it was a better result than it might have been.


Note to self: Find out of there's faster melting butterscotch chips on the market; two hours on a double boiler may not have been long enough for these fuckers, but it was more than long enough for me!

Date: 2021-09-28 01:43 pm (UTC)
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I wonder if it has anything to do with, well, chocolate's properties when tempered. Bearing in mind that I have limited information outside 'melting chocolate can be tricky', I wonder if mini-chips are treated differently so they can better hold their shape when baked. Something something outer layer differences from inner layer.

All that to say that the mini-chips might be more melt-resistant than full-sized chips...though my knowledge is limited to chocolate and these were butterscotch. Just wondering if that might be anywhere near the problem here.

(Disclaimer: Not a professional baker or a chemist...)

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