Product DescriptionThis is sooo easy! All you do is pour milk or water into the carafe, add chocolate powder or syrup, secure the lid, and push the "on" button. Cocomotion shuts off automatically when the cocoa is ready. And this is steamy, frothy rich cocoa too. Recipes for delicious treats like Hazelnut Cocoa and French Chocolate are included.
Features
- Makes up to 4 mugs of frothy hot chocolate
- Auto-Off fuction provides extra safety
- Convenient on/off indicator light
- Mixing disc whips hot cocoa quickly and easily
- Easy to clean
Customer Reviews
If you like hot chocolate you have to have this!
This thing makes the greatest hot chocolate and it is so fast and easy. Just add milk and syrup or powdered mix and push the button. They even have marks on the side of the mixing area so you don't need a measuring cup. The hot chocolate is smooth because it is mixed constantly. Even when my mom made it for me as a kid from scratch it never came out this smooth and well mixed. The included recipies are good and fun to try, but we usually go with the super easy milk & Hershey's recipe. My only complaint is that since the main part of the unit is all one peice and it has a cord, you can't submerge it, so cleanup isn't as easy as throwing it all in the sink or dishwasher. That's our only gripe and it's minor. My wife and I live in an area of the country where the winters are really cold and snowy. Cocomotion helps us get through the winter with a much better attitude. I'll be honest. This thing sits in our cupboard from May to September. But from October through April it sees almost daily service. You won't be disappointed with this purchase.
Surprisingly useful
When I received this as a gift from my mother-in-law, my first thought was "Here's another thing that takes up a lot of room and doesn't do much. What are we going to do with that???". After all, we have a microwave to make the hot chocolate.
But I've been pleasantly surprised by this machine. We especially like Mexican Hot Chocolate--the circles of cinnamon flavored-chocolate you break up and stir in warm milk. Ordinarily, we heat the milk and chocolate in the microwave and then use an old fashioned egg beater to mix it up to a froth.
In the cocomotion, I just drop everything in and press the button. A few minutes later, great hot chocolate--just the right temp and mixed perfectly! And only one thing to clean!
My tip for cleaning--pour in some clean water and a little dish soap and turn it on for a minute or so. Then rinse clean.
We are pleased with this machine and using it more often than I ever expected to.
Use it everyday!! Love it! Great for cold winter mornings!
I asked for this and received it for Christmas. This is one of the only gadgets that we have used consistently everyday. I love to make it with the Godiva hot chocolate mix (I think you can only buy the mix in Godiva stores). It is so rich and creamy. You pour in the cold milk, add about three tablespoons of cocoa per cup. The machine hold four cups, and has markers for each cup. Then just turn it on, and in about 2-3 minutes the cocoa is stirred and heated perfectly. It will also reheat and remix the cocoa buy just turning on the "on" button. You cannot submerse it in water to clean it, but there are only three parts to clean. The lid, the little magnetic mixer paddle, and the carafe (which you don't need to submerse, just rinse it out with soapy water).
Since I have read that hot cocoa provides the same benefits as a glass of red wine, I don't feel too guilty about downing my two cups a day. It is a good way to get my calcium too. I wasn't expecting to love it as much as I do, so I think I will switch to non fat milk.
Nestle hot chocolate powder is good too. If anyone else has some creative ideas or recipes for this wonderful machine, I hope they will list them. I am thinking I will try Ovaltine or Malted Milk and see what happens.
All in all, we have used this much more than the smore maker or the pizza maker.
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