A Hot Chocolate Maker?

Epicurean Exploits - Food and Recipes
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I got an email this morning from Crate & Barrel (natch) advertising a device specifically for making hot chocolate:

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My initial reaction is Alton Brown-ish–why an absurd unitasker that just takes up more counter space? But perhaps I’m missing an incredible kitchen device.

Has anyone known anyone to own/use a hot chocolate maker?

Bruce

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Dear God. I didn’t pay that much for my coffee pot! Reminds me of this as long as we’re talking about unitaskers.

Or, in the same vein.

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My parents have this:

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Yes a unitasker, but it is ridiculously easy to use, and a helluva lot better than those damn pouches of ‘hot chocolate’.

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I don’t think I could bring myself to own and display a device called the Cocomotion, regardless of how well it did its job…

Bruce

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Good point. I might have to store mine next to the Snuggie.

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$99 for a Hot Chocolate Maker, yikes! I agree w you Bruce. How bout a pan and a whisk?

Cocomotion, that is cute though.

If you’ve never tried Mexican Hot Chocolate, it’s worth a try. The chocolate comes in discs, and you heat it in a pan with milk, and use a whisk to froth it up. Way better than Swiss Miss or most any other powder mix I’ve ever tried.

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Actually, you use a molinillo. Rub it between your palms, but I’ll bet you knew that.

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omg, have not seen one of those in ages. thanks!

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Bob–I believe a molinillo would be another unitasker, wouldn’t it? I have drawers of unitaskers…[g]

Bruce

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ridiculous. you can make unreal hot chocolate with the steam wand of any decent espresso machine. buy an expobar office control …they sell for under $1,000…and you’ll have awesome hot chocolate.

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Nah…you could always use it to club baby seals.

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The stuff in that looks like dishwater compared to the sort of thick hot cocoa you get in Italy or Spain.


See here for some product:

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Como agua para chocolate.

Strictly speaking, Mexican hot chocolate is made with water, not milk. That’s how my wife, who is from Mexico City, prefers hers. It’s lighter while allowing the chocolate richness to shine through.

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Interesting! My Mom always made it with milk, very rich tasting. But will have to try it with water next time. Thanks.

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Have any of you guys had some like I put up pictures of? They are almost like hot chocolate pudding and (at least in Italy) often laced with liqeuers. Yummy and warming beyond the call of duty…

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Have any of you guys had some like I put up pictures of? They are almost like hot chocolate pudding and (at least in Italy) often laced with liqeuers. Yummy and warming beyond the call of duty…

As a matter of fact today. I was writing a loan for a has-been lead singer of a of an El Paso, TX boy band. This of course after the former wife of a chef of a restaurant that was once visited by Prince before he was famous but after he was good - you know, when he was working the bar scene in Minneapolis - stopped by my office to say hello.


And, yes, Bobbyjohn, I’m teasing you.

I kid because I love.

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I love you because you kid but, seriously, they take Hot Chocolate to a whole 'nother level in Spain and Italy.

I remember we got off the train in Bolzen (Alto Adige) and they had a placard with twenty variations (including 10 that were spiked). We were going to taste wines at Laimburg so we begged off but the one with cherry grappa and cinnamon smelled SO good.

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I love you because you kid but, seriously, they take Hot Chocolate to a whole 'nother level in Spain and Italy.

I have had that stuff - I do like it, but I like it the same way I like espresso.

Domestic, with good dutch proc and milk is coffee to this stuff’s espresso

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Oh…yeah. Two of those and you feel like you can see into the future and walk on water. That stuff is the secret to how people in Barcelona can go to dinner at midnight then head to a club at 3AM and party till the sun comes up and then go to work…at the BANK or HOSPITAL.

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Ok; since everyone is making fun of this…I want one!! [stirthepothal.gif]


Cheers!
Marshall [wink.gif]