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 enlarge | Brand: Rival
Category: Kitchen
This item is no longer available
Avg. Customer Rating:  81 reviews
Sales Rank: 41655
Color: Brown
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 9.8
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0.1
Warranty: 1
MPN: CRRF
Model: CFF5
UPC: 048894678134
EAN: 0048894678134
ASIN: B000AAYWN6
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| Customer Reviews:
 Advice re Chocolate November 28, 2005
41 out of 45 found this review helpful
I actually have a different brand of fountain, which melts the chocolate for me if desired, but have found that Callebaut has a chocolate available via [...] that does not require dilution with oil. Secondly, if you want to save the leftover chocolate, pour it into ice cube trays so it's easier to melt next time.
We love ours - but read my warning below! November 27, 2005
46 out of 46 found this review helpful
WARNING--this product is great and will work exactly like it says IF you use at least 4-5 pounds of chocolate and add all the oil it recommends (don't worry, the chocolate tastes fine with the oil mixed in). If you do not use this amout, it will not sheet/flow properly and will just trickle down. This minimum chocolate amount is not part of the instructions, but can be found on the box on a sticker that the factory must have added after the box was printed. Since a 60 oz (3.75 pound) bag of chips can be purchased at Costo/Sams Club for only about 6.99, even if you end up tossing a lot at the end, it's still a decent value especially for a large gathering.
Nice idea. Cool for parties November 25, 2005
99 out of 102 found this review helpful
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 constipated tonight" comments.
- It really is easy to clean and break down and throw in the dishwasher. The hardest thing we had to figure out was what to do with the leftover 3lbs of chocolate in the thing.
- If you do this thing, set it up early and get it going before the party. It has a heater so it'll just run in the background. It will make people want to try it more seeing it the whole time. Especially if they don't have to see you pouring eighty tons of oil into it.
Buy it, it's a nice gadget. Just be aware that it's a ton of chocolate. Strawberries worked best.
 Disappointed. November 17, 2005
13 out of 39 found this review helpful
I recieved one of these as a gift. After reading through the manual I can say this is probobly going to go into my basement storage and will most likely never be used. You must pre-melt the chocolate in a double boiler or the microwave before adding it to the fountain. You also have to add a considerable amount of vegatble oil to the chocolate to make it thin enough to flow. The smallest mix assumes 15 or so people, so this is defiently something you would want to reserve for parties only.
Nice idea, but not well carried out.
 I Love it! November 7, 2005
21 out of 24 found this review helpful
I love this machine. We have may parties in my family, and this item is the best. The adults as well as the kids just love it. It is easy to set up and easy to clean. The chocolate tastes great. I like to have graham crackers and marshamllows with it for the kids to make smores. Afew people have asked me to rent it to them for their parties.
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