Chocolate Fountain - any tips!

clairetelche1

Yip - Thorntons sell a bag of chocolate fountain pellets - not cheap at £9 but you just microwave and pour - saves all the messing about with oil etc. We used it at a party (about 25 people) and had lots of leftovers the next day to re-heat Enjoy!! Cx

Penelope_Penguin

nettles77 wrote: »

just bought one today so havent a clue. Says 900g is needed so just wondering what type is best. Many thanks.

I've never used one, but from people I know who have, the best type of chocolate is that which most easily washes out from clothes, carpets and soft furnishings

Penelope_Penguin

More sensible ideas in this thread I'll merge this later.

rosie383

I was at a do a while ago with a chocolate fountain. They used the cheap Lidl one as they had tried others in the past and this one worked best. It was delicious, and I am not usually a fan of milk choc, unless the kids are in bed and I can curl up with a bar of Cadbury's anything!!!

jackieglasgow

any chocolate will do fine, but you need to add oil to it. Use grapeseed oil as it has no flavour. I buy the basics chocolate from the supermarket which does the job fine - usually do two parts dark, one part milk.

karenrel

I've used Sainsburys value choc, approx. 30p 100g, and no fat (fat content in value choc is high enough!) and its been fine. Tastes minging as it is but loveloy when its melted!

Don't know what size machine you've got, but we used about 10 bars! Enjoy!

babyshoes

I found the very cheap choc to be a bit iffy though my students ate it anyway, but Sainsburys do big (300g or 400g) bars of belgian style choc which are fairly cheap, & it worked great in mine with a bit of oil to thin it down enough. Make sure you use enough chocolate, as it is rather pathetic without enough liquid in it. If you don't want to use oil, you will need to buy a couverture chocolate, which has extra cocoa butter in it to make it flow better than normal chocolate. It tends to be fairly pricy!

You can easily keep the leftovers to eat or re-use, even when it has the oil in it. Oh, and use cheapy veg oil for cleaning the bowl if you have the type that can't be submerged in water, along with LOTS of paper towels. Clean it while warm!

whizzing

The family have decided that a treat they would like over Christmas is a chocolate fountain. We have the machine so that is no problem but in the past I have found the best chocolate to be from Lakeland but they are no longer selling it. Can anyone tell me what is the best to use? I know this is definately not Old Style but the advice on here re food is always the best !!

valk_scot

I'm told that Lidl own brand chocolate is ideal for chocolate machines and it's only 39p for a decent sized bar. Worth a test run perhaps?

Pink.

Hi whizzing,

We have an earlier thread that should help so I'll add your thread to it to keep the suggestions together.

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