So, I was tempering my milk chocolate, and after thinking it was ready, I filled a whole lot of shell molds. Then I realized, I never added the seed chocolate. Now I have a whole lot of mess to clean out of the molds. (and a lot of wasted time).
You mentioned having a mess to clean up... I hope you know you can pop your molds into the freezer, freeze the chocolate and then just unmold it. No harm, no foul. You can then re melt and reuse the chocolate. We all have those kinds of days when we realize later we've made a mistake.
