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Offline gue_tea

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« on: November 04, 2005, 02:41:14 am »

I've been to Italy once to order hot chocolate and I find it really really intriguing. Very deep, thick and heavenly delicious. It looks as if a bit of buttery on the top, has thick a bit solid chocolate on top but has liquid form in the inside. I can still remember the taste


 I wonder how to make this perfect hot chocolate.... Is there actually a machine to create this thick hot chocolate like how espresso is made by espresso machine? Or should it be total manual?


 

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« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2005, 09:50:44 pm »
You could look for recipes online Im sure theres loads. 
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« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2005, 08:13:56 pm »



maybe use cream and milk together. could work, could fail, you never know


Good Luck


Sarah xxxx

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« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2006, 10:31:15 pm »
I know exactly the hot chocolate you are speaking of. I studied in italy this past spring and fell in love with the thick hot choclate. While I was there I asked one of the student (american) barista's how she did it. She steamed some milk with the steam wand of an espresso machine, but not fully up to temperature. Then she mixed in the hot chocolate mix (just a plain old powder) and steamed it some more. Once it was near temperature (the temp for milk for cappuccinos and such is 150-160d F) she slowed the steam down and for some reason that thickened it up. Now, I just tried to replicate that at home and didn't get the same results. However, I'm sure there is some trick I'm not getting. Once milk is past 170-180F is scalded. Perhaps it needs to get to that point? not really sure. Good luck!
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« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2006, 12:35:44 am »
Stir half a bag of flour and half a packet of lard into an Option.
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« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2006, 02:12:50 pm »
Or I find a tin of pureed butter beans works well.
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« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2006, 02:53:01 pm »

Try vegetable oil, it's in Sunny Delight!

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« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2006, 05:08:47 pm »

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Or I find a tin of pureed butter beans works well.


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« Reply #9 on: February 25, 2006, 04:58:18 pm »
Quote from: gue_tea

I've been to Italy once to order hot chocolate and I find it really really intriguing. Very deep, thick and heavenly delicious. It looks as if a bit of buttery on the top, has thick a bit solid chocolate on top but has liquid form in the inside. I can still remember the taste


 I wonder how to make this perfect hot chocolate.... Is there actually a machine to create this thick hot chocolate like how espresso is made by espresso machine? Or should it be total manual?


 


 


my daughter has just come back from italy and has not stopped going on and on about the hot chocolate, no mention of the scenery ,the skiing, the bum boarding, the ice skating........just the bloody hot chocolate !!!!!!


 

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« Reply #10 on: February 25, 2006, 08:51:43 pm »
The cafe across the road from me on the clifftop apparently does hot chocolate that is just like you get at ski resorts.  As I've never been in there or to a ski resort I wouldn't know.  Perhaps I ought to try it!
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« Reply #12 on: March 06, 2006, 09:56:44 pm »
At the moment I am addicted to suchard hot chocolate and I am drinking far too much each day. It's so sweet.
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« Reply #13 on: April 17, 2006, 03:56:16 pm »
the hot chocolate powder has cornflour in it so it thickens a bit like custard
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« Reply #14 on: April 22, 2006, 10:03:12 pm »
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