Heating pad? Why not?

Reader Greg writes in with this tip on maintaining the temperature of a batch of tempered chocolate:

I have tempered chocolate using the seeding method and found it really a difficult process. On a “Good Eats” episode, Alton Brown used a heating pad to melt and maintain the chocolate at the correct temperature. I tried this with some truffles and it worked quite well and was much less finicky.

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