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This page was voted on for deletion at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Chocolate fountain. The consensus was to keep it. dbenbenn | talk 18:56, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The "History" section needs some heavy editing, it reads like a mix of an advert and the sort of puff you put in a covering letter when applying for a job! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.129.154.30 (talk) 11:33, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This reference seems controversial so I'll put it here: chocolate fountains faq Note that the point of references is so that people can check facts. Kappa 08:37, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I posted a link to Chocolate Fountain Newcastle along with a picture. The picture was aproved but the link kept being removed. Im new to wiki, are my external links not allowed?

Please see Wikipedia:External_links for the guidelines, commercial links are not used. .:.Jareth.:. babelfish 18:46, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

As someone that owns several chocolate fondue fountains and has operated them, I'd really like to contribute to this section. I understand Wikipedia's policies and I'm not here to spam but I do want to contribute. I just posted a link to a [1], a chocolate fountain rental directory that is free, contains information about all of the USA, and has no advertisements. Why is that link not allowed?

To further that, the one link in the article is a commercial link and far from the best resource on the subject. talk

Manufacturer links[edit]

At present there are links to 11 manufacturers, only a few of which offer appreciable information on them (per the expand-section tag someone added). It doesn't seem like this many links are needed. I'd suggest simply removing them all: a search engine can provide this information if someone wants to find such a webpage and if a manufacturer is notable they should get their own page here. Some of these manufacturers don't even specialize in chocolate fountains as best I can tell (e.g. Giles & Postner and Rival) and others just seem to be advertisements (the most recently added ones). digfarenough (talk) 22:40, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There is clear Wikipedia policy against having a section that serves as a directory. I have removed it from the article. -SCEhardT 04:59, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Viscosity and vegetable oil[edit]

I've added a note to the article, to the effect that the viscosity problem especially affects smaller fountains. As a personal experience (and therefore probably not encyclopedic), I'd add that milk chocolate, sufficiently thinned with vegetable oil tastes absolutely revolting. I have one of these machines, and it is great if you treat it like an enhanced chocolate-fondue, rather than as a table-decoration. My advice is to abandon any attempt to make the fluid flow smoothly, and use chocolate which tastes good. Unmodified 70% cocoa Lindt works very well, especially with something extremely sweet and juicy, such as pineapple. The flow may be somewhat gloopy, but you'll prefer the taste! RichardNeill (talk) 01:03, 19 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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