Chocolate for fountains

alba37

Best to melt it in the microwave! It's easy!

tanith

We bought one at Tesco for £14.99 but after we read all the do's and don'ts and that we had to melt the chocolate before hand in the microwave and if you buy this or that chocolate you have to put cooking oil in it YUK and all the fuss to clean it after we decided it was just too much blasted trouble and tomorrow its going back....:rotfl:

LJM

my mil is addicted to choccie may be a good pressie for her for xmas

hayley50

We used ours yesterday for daughters birthday, I used 3 of the double packs of galaxy (#1 per twin pack in tescos). I melt it the old fashioned way in a glass bowl over a pan of boiling water, takes a bit longer than microwave but you can get burn patches in the microwave where the chocolate goes a bit solid again, whilst its melting i pour in some vegetable oil, can't tell you how much as I just add a bit melt, mix and then keep adding until its nice and runny. Then pour it onto the fountain - make sure you have had it switched on to heat up first. I was grossed out when I first read it needed veg oil but its only a bit more of whats in there already. Also don'tworry that you or the kids are going to be eating so much chocolate, you need that much to make the machine work and end up throwing most of it away afterwards!!!!

maow425

LJM wrote:

my mil is addicted to choccie may be a good pressie for her for xmas

Mr T's sell choccie fountains for £14.99 at the mo. I'd just use value chocolate, break it up and repack it in cellophane bags with a nice ribbon 'round it...

Roz_V

If you don't want to faff around melting the chocolate and adding the oil, I know Thorntons sell "fountain chocolate" (ie just melt n go!!) - think its about £3.50 a bag so not very MSE, but the bag would probably do at least 1 batch