I had ordered chocolate covered coffee beans by mail, but they arrived melted and soupy. Should I throw them away or try to save them? I am unable to return them.
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The coating may or may not need tempering to look nice, (depends on what sort of coating chocolate was used) but food-safety-wise it doesn't matter, and that won't affect the taste much (more the texture.)
Merely refrigerating should reharden the coating, though presumably you'll end up with beans stuck together with coating.
Not really any good reason to throw them out. Refrigerate (or freeze if you like) probably hit with a hammer or rolling pin to break up the mass into manageable chunks, and rest assured that it would look much the same after one bite if it had arrived un-melted.
If the coating won't stay solid when taken out of the refrigerator it probably was one that was tempered. Re-tempering it seems impractical. Many coatings don't need tempering (they use cocoa powder with some fat other than cocoa butter to manage that trick.)
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And if it does need tempering to stay solid, you can always just store them in the fridge/freezer Commented Jun 26 at 3:06
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3Breaking up the mass will be easier if chilled in a thin layer - plate or baking sheet rather than bowl– Chris HCommented Jun 26 at 11:34