The Science Behind Chocolate, How to Temper it, and Millionaire's Shortbread | What's Eating Dan?

Chocolate is sweet, bitter, complexly-flavored, and melt in your mouth decadent... but it's also really complicated. In addition to teaching you the science behind cacao and chocolate bars and tempering chocolate, Dan also makes Millionaire's Shortbread, also known as incredible homemade Twix bars.

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[trinogon]

I would Die for Dan from the America's Test Kitchen.

[mrigankjain]

Dan: Tempered chocolate is necessary for a good snap
Claire: *cries in distance*

[VinegarAndSaltedFries]

This is my absolute favorite cooking/food science related videos on YouTube. Absolutely great work. Happy Holidays Dan.

[EpoCO]

Dan, please do an episode on tomatoes and explain why cooked tomatoes taste so different than raw ones! I'd love to know the science.

[bentleyrd]

I hate it when dangerous chocolate is flying everywhere.

[Boddah.]

Claire Saffitz should probably watch this.

[SuperKatiki]

Was literally getting ready to head into the kitchen to make some chocolate dipped goodies for Christmas when this video popped into my feed, wondering if how I could keep my chocolate shiny. Talk about perfect timing!

[MiniMii]

0:54 for a second I thought he said cacao plants are pollinated by midgets

[nathitappan]

Can you make a video on different types of basil? Genovese, pointy leaves, lemon, purple, tiny... And oreganos? Greek or Mexican? Does it make enough of a difference after all? Maybe an episode on herbs ? I'm planning my garden for this season and would love to hear what you have to say before we hammer it all down.

[greathornedowl]

Dan, what a great teacher, this easily could have been a series, various types of chocolate and their uses. Not made was the analogy of cocoa bean travels from plant to table, not unlike coffee bean.

[joaniebaloney]

Oh. my. gosh! That little pup at the end is stinkin' cute! So is Dan, but I'm old enough to be his mom, so I'm saying that part in a mom-like way.

[brianklaus]

Dan's so good that he could temper Gordon Ramsey

[Where_you_been_loca]

“Let’s temper chocolate”
*Chris Morocco enters chat*

[Sis]

I can’t believe I’m just now finding these videos!! How awesome!

[thomascampitelli]

These keep getting better. Very amusing and informative.

[laurajeanrusin]

Dan you are a life saver! I have a cookie exchange to attend tomorrow night and I've been wracking my brain to come up with something that I haven't made every Christmas since I starting baking (over 50 years). Now, 0 I'll be making Millionaire's Shortbread! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

[Grim_fpv]

Dan should have his own food science Youtube channel.

[oldmate]

I love the editing on these videos! It’s go hectic, jumping from point to point with little arcs and sidebars thrown in.

Whenever I’m like ‘what does that word mean’ and I Google it, I come back and the next segment is a sidebar about it haha

[audreywy]

I really appreciate Dan's humor, he reminds me of my son. Also, this recipe is amazing.

[mookykitten]

That video made me so happy 😊 thanks Dan!