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We're going to be talking about how to burp your chocolate fountain. A lot of times when you initially turn your fountain on an air bubble will get caught in your Center Cylinder. This air bubble will act as a cork and it will impede the chocolate flowing up your Center Cylinder so that it's not a full flow of Chocolate. When it gets up to the top of the crown it may then crest over and, as it Cascades down each Tier, it will look drippy.
Chocolate Fountain Assumptions
So there's two assumptions that we're making here. The first is that you have the minimum amount of Chocolate in your fountain that your fountain requires. This is Sephra's 18-in Classic home fountain. It requires a minimum of 4lbs of chocolate but it will hold up to 6lbs... I've put about 5lbs in. The second assumption is that you've melted the chocolate properly. Both of these are absolutely necessary... if you don't have the minimum amount of chocolate in the fountain frankly it's going to look drippy... it will not flow correct. If you've over or underheated your chocolate. Likewise it will appear drippy or you could have scorched it if you heated it up too much and it simply won't flow.
So the two assumptions that we're working with is that you've put the minimum amount of chocolate in your fountain that the fountain requires and that you've also melted it correctly. On each of the back of the bags of Sephra's Chocolate you'll find microwavable melting instructions. You can also melt it in the base unit itself but we'll save that explanation for another day. For today let's go ahead and turn this Fountain on and what I expect you to see is chocolate going up the Center Cylinder and then as it cascades over I don't expect a full and perfect curtain... we'll talk about what to do next just as soon as we see that. So it's pretty immediate you would think that there isn't any air in that Center Cylinder because of how fast the chocolate went up and cascaded over and, frankly, there's definitely air in the Center Cylinder because the chocolate is just struggling to pour over each of the Tiers.
The Cold Truth
Sometimes we do get questions about how cold can it be... right now it's 52°. What I'm going to go ahead and do is, I see the way this chocolate fountain is running, it's not running the way it should, so I'm going to go ahead and turn the Fountain off for about 15 to 20 seconds. The time doesn't really matter... what you're really looking for is the air bubbles to pop out the top of the fountain in the Crown and also you're looking for air bubbles to possibly, more than likel,y also pop out at the bottom of the Fountain right next to the Center Cylinder. As soon as those air bubbles recede I simply turn the Chocolate Fountain back on and you should then have a full flow of Chocolate going up the Center Cylinder and cascading back down and you should have a perfect flow.
Nine Times Out Of Ten
Nine times out of 10 that's the only issue you're dealing with with any chocolate fountain with any brand manufacturer out there learn how to burp your fountain and that will solve all of your problems.
