When To Use A Double Boiler
When To Use A Double Boiler Jupiterimages/Getty Images By Pamela Siegel/Dec. 21, 2022 2:40 pm EST If you cook and bake long enough, sooner or later you’ll run across a recipe that requires melting ingredients in a double boiler. In French cooking, this useful tool is called a bain marie, which literally translates to “water bath.” Melting chocolate, making custards, and some doughs and sauces require gentler heating, and a double boiler does the trick....