how to make a chocolate fountain

[pianistimo]

i'm hosting a small wedding and want to know how i might get by with less than $200-400 on a chocolate fountain.  is there some trick to this?  i read there is a motor that pushes the chocolate to the top.  can i buy separate parts and put one together for cheaper.  stainless steel is said to keep the cleanest.

it's kind of funny reading about these because they say you should always have someone manning the chocolate fountain due to kids filling up glasses full of chocolate, and putting things into it that shouldn't be there.  my idea is just a platter of strawberries nearby and if someone gets the thing all jammed up with something else - well, it will be a load of chocolate on the lawn. 

where's the cheapest place to buy chocolate for this thing?

[pianistimo]

 i think i found the answer to my own question.  i typed in macy's and found SF sales that supplies macy's - i think.

https://www.sweetfountains.com/sales/home.php?gclid=CLrU9uTxjZUCFQNvHgodDj7ZgA

[healdie]

C4 explosives tie them to a bar of caburys then it will literally be raining chocolate

[thalbergmad]

Why don't you have a Holy Wine fountain instead??

Thal

[pianistimo]

i think you meant 'holy water' - anyways if Jesus can turn water to wine - what's the difference?  ok.  the c4 explosives.  exactly HOW do you do that?  oh.  nevermind.  (the possibilities are endless for my 19 year old who couldn't care less about a wedding in the backyard).  hmm. 

it never hurts to ask.  i figured that i didn't want a used fountain from a thrift store.  nobody wants eat out of something that a stranger and his/her younger brother or sister has been dipping into.   ok.  so i buy the thing new - and put it together.  it fountains chocolate. 

i suppose when one is done with all the accoutriments - you may as well buy a candy store.  they have these various 'tweaky' things to make the fountain look better and focus the chocolate in streams and they are $100?  it sounds like a science project that one could easily re-invent by just buying a bunch of stainless steel objects in a kitchen store. 

ok.  you get a blender gone bad (possible thrift store item - with lid missing) - an electric burner - several stainless steel strainers and funnels.  put some lights on it.  who's going to tell the difference in the dark?

[concerto_love]

aaargh!!!! chocolate!!!!!  MAKE IT BIGGER as U can!!!!