This holiday season, [Chaz] wanted to continue his family’s tradition of enrobing a little bit of everything in dark chocolate, and built an improved, rotating chocolate-coating machine.
You may remember last year’s offering, aka the conveyor belt version. Although that one worked, too much chocolate was ultimately lost to the surface of the kitchen table. [Chaz] once again started with a standard chocolate fountain and bought a round wire rack that fits the circumference of the bowl at the bottom. He snipped a hole in the center large enough to accommodate the business part of the fountain and printed a collar with holes that he cleverly zip-tied to the rack.
[Chaz] also printed a large gear to go around the bowl, a small gear to attach to a six RPM motor, a motor mount for the bowl, and an air blade attachment for a portable Ryobi fan. The air blade worked quite well, doing the double duty of distributing the chocolate and thinning out the coating. Plus, it gives things a neat rumpled look on the top.
Want to make some special chocolates this year, but don’t want to build an enrober? Get yourself a diffraction grating and make some rainbow goodies with melted chocolate.
Mmmmm!
Chocolate covered turkey drumsticks!
Crunchy frog.
Spring surprise.
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“If you eat a frog in the morning, nothing worse will happen through your day”.
Not necessarily true but I suppose adequate enough for this conversation. Kinda like saying what could go wrong?
Addendum:
“To you or the frog.”
From Rick Cook’s “Wizardry” novels.
Only good if the frogs were soaked in lark’s vomit ¬_¬
If you’re ever find yourself at a buffet with a chocolate fountain, you should know somebody has coated their fried chicken in it. Oh, and their fingers, which they’ll lick clean and stick back in the chocolate.
Hack-tastic
the video doesnt load in feedly or any rss reader or on your website and asks for a login. YT really killed video sharing because they want more data… i like the chocolate covering of everything
Works in a no-cookies, no-login instance of firefox for me. Both embedded and at YT.
BTW: Word of the year is “enshittification” according to Macquarie Dictionary.
Look up the book liquid film coating by kistler, such a classic and nice read if you r into this.
This sent me down a rabbit-hole on recreating the Mystic Mint.
He doesn’t bother to temper the chocolate. From the matte finish on the coated items it looks like it didn’t harden in the best crystal form.
Hair dryers are usually mains powered and many have a button to disable the heating.