Like the Chocolate Shaver we featured yesterday, this Chocolate/Ice Chipper - a wicked-looking instrument! - is a fairly limited-use tool in the kitchen. But if you do a lot of baking with chocolate, it can be very useful.
It's sturdier than a fork, and it's made to shave off delicious bits of chocolate for garnishes. It can also break high-quality bars into chocolate chips, as recommended by Dorie Greenspan yesterday.
There are some additional uses for a chocolate chipper, though; these are great for flaking ice into smaller chunks and bits. Do you use a chocolate/ice chipper?
The model above is only available in bulk for restaurants and other food professionals. They're available through Minnesota Ice Picks for $3.79 apiece. You can also buy a comparable model through Amazon for $5.95.
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I have a chocolate chipper and I'm not sure where I bought it - possibly King Arthur Flour - but regardless, I'm not a fan. When I chop chocolate at home, it inevitably flies everywhere and cleanup is a real pain. I have found that I get less flying bits if I just chop with a knife (serrated or not).
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That is by far the scariest looking kitchen implement I have ever seen. I think for minimizing chocolate shrapnel and multi-tasking, a serrated knife can't be beat.
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I prefer a hammer. I put chocolate in a double bagged ziploc baggie and then pound the hell out of it with a hammer. The baggies keep the chocolate in place. We were supposed to use a chipper thing when I was in school and I hated that thing. It hurt my hands and sent chocolate everywhere.
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