Cheapest Chocolate/Belgian Couverture

whiskywhisky

Hi All

We just bought a Chocolate Fountain for our daughters birthday this week, and are a little surprised as to the cost for running it. It seems we will need to use at least 2 kg of chocolate.

Does anyone know of any good offers where I could buy from?? I have looked around and there are some good offers on ebay buy I dont want to risk it not arriving on time.

Plus does anyone know if normal cheap supermarket chocolate tastes a lot different than Belgian Couverture in a fountain?

Many Thanks

Stranger_Than_Fiction

I'd be tempted to use the best chocolate you can afford. Having said that, some of the supermarket own chocolate is good - I have used both Sainsbury's and Tesco's. If it's milk, make sure it has a reasonable amount of cocoa solids. Cadbury's has a minimum of 20%, for example. If you go to www. mysupermarket.co.uk you can see if there are any good supermarket offers at the moment. You should be able to buy 2kg for under £15. Are you near any outlets as there are Cadbury shops in some of them?

Good luck and hope the party is fun.

whiskywhisky

I have a Cadbury shop nearby in an oulet store - did not think of that. I will try there first and see what deals they have.

Techno

Try the chocolate from Lidl - decent price and tastes good too!

DCFC79

Techno wrote: »

Try the chocolate from Lidl - decent price and tastes good too!

i find the choclate from aldi is pretty good as well

broclo

Robert Dyas do 900g for £9.99 or 2 packs for £15 I noticed the other day. Not sure if that is good or bad though!

Edinburghlass_2

Tesco's own chocolate is as good as any for a chocolate fountain/fondue.

kezzapee

I use the tesco (or asda) smart price stuff for baking and it tastes fine (often eat it too if i need a chocolate fix!!) I think it's 27p for 100g so you can get 2kg for just over £5

I don't think it's worth paying for better quality chocolate as it gets mixed with oil and eaten with other flavours anyway.

MrsE_2

I don't have one of these machines, but I did read somewhere you can use normal chocolate & add some oil.
If you are adding oil, can I suggest Sweet Almond Oil, I use (well my DD uses it) in baking.
Cheap in Waitrose.

marozasi

I always buy chocolate from Lidl, prices are low and the taste is great, try it!

Ben84

I'd make ganache.