I currently have one of the small version of a chocolate dipping machine
which has two settings, warm to keep the chocolate liquid and hot to melt
the chocolate from solid. It's a great machine and I love to use it for the
holidays for dipping all sorts of candies. My question is - Can you use a
crockpot on low to do the same thing? I got an advertisement in this months
Good Cook magazine selection and it is for a unit called Chocolate Heaven,
being toughted as a candy maker and a fondue pot. It basically looks like a
crockpot. Has removable insert and everything. It's $12.99 and holds up to
24oz. The one i have, which was some special unit, cost me twice that and
holds about 8oz. I do a LOT of candy making, especially at Christmas and I
was wondering if this Chocolate Heaven would be a good thing for me to buy
and use for dipping large batches or if buying a small crockpot from
Wal-Mart would do the same thing. I'm not looking for pristine style dipping
as I am only a basic home candy maker, but I would love to be able to dip
more than a few at a time and not have to stop to add more chocolate every
10th peice of candy. Anyone have any ideas on this unit or their use of it
or a crockpot to dip candies??? It would also be useful to keep both units
and have one for chocolate and one for white chocolate or something as well.


I guess my main question is, Do I need the Chocolate Heaven unit (is it
something special?) or can I do the same thing with a low heat crockpot?

Thanks in advance