Wilton Chocolate Pro Chocolate Fountain - Chocolate Fondue Fountain, 4 lb. Capacity

Love this fountain. I ordered it for my son’s 9th birthday party and it was a hit with all of our guests. It was easy to set up and use. I used the Wilton chocolate and it melted and tasted great! Highly recommend. One tip is that it is preferable to finish all the chocolate in the fountain and wash right away. It is lots of work to clean if the chocolate cools off too much.

This fountain is really nice. I bought it for use in my wedding. It's really easy to use and a great hit. I don't have any major problems with it, but there are a few things I wanted to put in a review that I would have liked to see in reviews when I was researching this product. Make sure you use 4 pounds of chocolate at one time. We wanted to test out the fountain and the chocolate we bought to make sure we liked it, but we didn't want to use a whole four pounds so we only used two. It works fine, you just won't have enough chocoloate to make the fountain really flow. It never said on the pacakge whether you HAD to use four pounds at once or that the capacity was UP TO four pounds so we wanted to test that out, too. It is best to use four pounds. Also the motor in the fountain is a little noisy and it's a constant noise. It's not terribly loud, but it is there. Clean up isn't too hard with this fountain, either, though it does take some time. You have to turn the fountain off and let the chocolate cool before you can start clean up, so that takes a little bit of time. But you also can't forget about it or let it cool too long or the chocolate will harden and ruin the fountatin. You also can't pour the chocolate down the sink, so you need another method of disposal. The base cannot be submerged in water, so you just wipe out the chocolate with a rag or paper towel. When I cleaned out the plastic fountains peices, I filled the sink with hot, soapy water and soaked them for a little bit before I tried to clean them. That made them easier to clean. This fountain is a really good fountain and I highly recommend it!

I ordered the Wilton Chocolate Pro 3-tier chocolate fountain to use at my son's 16th birthday party. I was a little worried after reading some of the other reviews. But, I had the mind set that I would use it once, and if it didn't work, I'd toss it in the trash because I couldn't have rented one for the night for the price I paid anyway. I am happy to report that I had NO problem with it at all. I made sure it was level by using the attached level. That was easy! I heated it for about 20 minutes. While it was heating, I melted the chocolate chips in zip lock bags mixed with a little oil. I did not use that expensive "fondue" chocolate. I just used good old fashioned chocolate chips. I then poured the melted chocolate into the bottom of the fountain. It was melted just fine, but seemed a little thick, so I put some more oil in it. I stirred it and turned the knob and it flowed beautifully. I mean, every now and then it would "curtain" or open a little on the bottom layer, but to me that was not a big deal. I think I started out with 5 bags of melted chips, and later I added 2 more because I didn't want the chocolate level to get too low. Some other people wrote that it was loud, but I didn't think so. If you were in a totally quiet room, then yes, you could probably hear it running. But, it was not distracting at all...sort of like a fan running. My fountain ran for at least 4 hours, and there were about 60 people at the party, and we didn't have one single issue with it. I used marshmallows, pretzel rods, strawberries, and rice crispie treats with mine. It was a HUGE hit with the 16 year old girls....they went on and on about how much they liked it!! Several of the boys tried it out too, and everyone seemed to enjoy it. One hint - even with napkins and plates and long skewers, the chocolate will drip on the table. So, you probably don't want a white table cloth. What I did was use a dark blue table cloth (plastic!) and then I layed a few dark blue paper napkins around the base of the fountain. Every now and then I'd just throw them away and put some fresh ones down. That was just because I wanted it to look clean all night, and was just my own preference. But, you can expect drips. When it was time to clean up, I just dumped the left over chocolate into a garbage bag. I then took the middle pieces out and rinsed them off and put them into the dishwasher. I used a wet dish towel to wipe out the bottom. It just wasn't the horrible experience I had read about. Well worth the money I spent.

C’est ma deuxième fontaine. Celle-ci est la meilleure. Puissante silencieuse et facile à laver. Le chocolat s’écoule sans arrêt et si vous n’utilisez pas 4 livres de chocolat comme suggéré pour avoir un écoulement abondant vous aurez une cascade de chocolat moins régulière mais tout aussi jolie .

I did like this machine. works well and is easy to put together. Cost's seem high for an occasional product.