Rival CFF5 Chocolate Fondue Fountain

Chocolate Heaven!
Forget the price, this item is fantastic! We had a party last night (10/8/05) and after dinner, we broke out this fountain and all of our guests went absolutely crazy over this.

First, note that you have to melt the chocolate chips on a double broiler and you have to add some vegetable oil to the chips, then the melted mixture is put into the basin area of the fountain.

The auger style pump flows the melted chocolate to the top and it cascades down the two-tier fountain.

We had strawberries, bananas, pineapple, pretzels sticks, marshmallows, and pound cakes. We used long wooden skewers for the dipping and we even had to add a second batch of chips. Everybody loved it and a lot of them want to borrow it too.

Clean up was not as bad as you would expect. We dumped out the remaining chocolate and the pieces were easily disassembled and cleaned.

I cannot think of any other time that so many guests commented on a single party item...

Excellent fountain
In reading the reviews I have to add a few suggestions. The fountain works great- one just has to know how to properly use it. First of all- forget the oil - it is difficult to get "just the right mixture" and it dilutes the flavor of the chocolate. Everyone should be using Paramount crystals. I know the box says to use oil but do a little research on the internet and you'll see that this is not the best way to go. Paramount crystals are what professionals use to thin out their chocolate when making candy without diluting the taste of the chocolate. Paramount crystals can be found at stores that specialize in making cakes and candies. You mix an 8 oz bag of crystals to 3 lbs of GOOD chocolate and you'll have the perfect chocolate every time. The best chocolate is also found at the same stores. You also must melt the chocolate properly. Make sure the fountain has been turned on to heat for at least 30 mins prior to adding your chocolate. That "dribbling" effect that one...

Nice idea. Cool for parties
I bought this and had it out for our Thanksgiving meal. I knew in advance this thing would be the next breadmaker in our house (meaning the cool thing you use once or twice then put in a counter until it eventually gets sold in a garage sale). But for $50 I figured we'd get the cool points when we had 10 people over for Thanksgiving.

Couple of notes:

- Forget what you think chocolate should flow like. We melted about 4lbs of Hersheys chocolate chips with some vegetable oil to what I would expect to see in fondue and then put it in the machine as directed. The thing started up sounding like a diesel engine. We thought we bought a lemon but the instruction troubleshooting guide kept saying to add more vegetable oil so we did. Eventually we had this stuff pretty "watered" down and the fountain worked and flowed great. Although it probably didn't help its appeal when people saw us pouring tons of vegetable oil into this thing (lots of "wow, gonna be...

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