Chocolate Fountain Chocolate

chrismoney1800

Anyone have any ideas of where to get chocolate for your home chocolate fountain from, without paying the earth for the chocolate.


Hoping to enterain a few freinds on easter monday! I will be a lil treat for them!

I hope this is the correct board to post in!

Thanks

Chris

Cornishpixie_2

You can buy cooking chocolate in large blocks at Tesco or I'M sure Asda in cookery section. Woolies and WH Smiths sometimes have offers on large bar cadbury's for about £1. You could do marshmallows with cheaper chocolate. Alternatively if of age ply with cheap booze first in which case anything will impress them! Ha! Ha! Have fun

chrismoney1800

Thanks Cornishpixie,

Does anyone know how much chocolate you need for one of the home fountains!

Cheers

kaggy

Tesco Value plain chocolate is very good and also very cheap - 100gr for 25p

I use about 10 bars melted in a bowl over simmering water before putting in the fountain. It tastes fab!

Karen

tinkerbell84

chrismoney1800 wrote: »

Thanks Cornishpixie,

Does anyone know how much chocolate you need for one of the home fountains!

Cheers

does it not have an instruction book then?

chrismoney1800

Thanks Kaggy. Suggest will be the same with Sainsburys Basic chocolate! As sadly I carnt get to a tesco.

Cheers for the replies!

Keep the ideas coming!

chrismoney1800

tinkerbell84 wrote: »

does it not have an instruction book then?

Good point, just checked says 800grams.

:beer:

jtb2412

We use normal choc plus some vegetable oil (can't taste it and it keeps the choc running smoothly through the fountain). Much cheaper than buying the 'specialised' chocolate you are supposed to use !

chrismoney1800

Thanks all I have decieded to just get normal chocolate!
Out of intrest, how much chocolate do you use (grams).

Cheers

Gingernutmeg

My mum bought one of these and I seem to recall that she used about a kilo and a half of chocolate - you need a lot more than you'll actually use, as you need a fair bit to get the 'fountain' going, and you need to keep the fountain topped up while people are using it. We also found it better to melt the chocolate first and then pour it into the fountain, as the in-built heaters tend not to be brilliant and take forever to melt the chocolate. Adding the oil is a good idea too, and don't, whatever you do, let the chocolate set in the fountain once you turn it off. They're a pain to clean anyway, but once the choc sets it's a nightmare! (It's also messy, I'd really recommend putting it on a disposable tablecloth!)

chrismoney1800

Cheers for that Gingernutmeg.

Thanks to all of the above for the advice they have given me hopefully I will get it working!

I have decided to use 1kg -1.5g of normal chocolate.
And add the oil.
Plus put it on a disposable tablecloth.

Thanks
Chris