Hot Chocolate
Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 8:33 pm
I thought I'd make a cup of hot chocolate this afternoon. Why not, it's that time of the year, right?
So I got the box out of the cupboard, took out an envelope and poured the contents into a Rainbow Brite ceramic mug.
Then I put water into my Senseo coffee maker. I put a pad holder in but no pad. Then I pressed the Start button. The machine came on and soon the water was heated.
And then it hit me. I had some chocolate sauce somewhere. I thought that would make my warm drink taste even better. I found the bottle, opened it and tried to pour out some of the contents. Nothing doing. This is a very thick sauce and the recent cold temperatures made it even thicker.
Hmmm. OK, what next. I still wanted to try this combination but the sauce wasn't being very helpful. I thought that heating it up would make it flow so I reached for a pot and started to put water in it. I quickly stopped when I realized there was a better, quicker and cheaper way. I've got a small electric boiler that will bring a litre of water to a boil in a few minutes. The water from the pot, about half a litre, went into that.
In the meantime, I let the now-heated water from the Senseo flow into the cup.
I heated the water in the boiler but not to boiling. Then I put the bottle of sauce into the water for about three minutes. It barely made a difference. A couple minutes more in the water didn't much change things, this sauce really had been very thick! After a couple more minutes there was a slow and steady flow, but not enough. A couple more minutes in the hot water produced the desired result. Actually, it was rather too much of a good thing as the sauce was now flowing freely and caused my cup to overflow.
I cleaned up the mess and stirred the contents of the cup.
WOW!!! Was that ever good!!!
. I added a little more sauce and EXCELLENT!!!
It had been worth the effort.
So I got the box out of the cupboard, took out an envelope and poured the contents into a Rainbow Brite ceramic mug.
Then I put water into my Senseo coffee maker. I put a pad holder in but no pad. Then I pressed the Start button. The machine came on and soon the water was heated.
And then it hit me. I had some chocolate sauce somewhere. I thought that would make my warm drink taste even better. I found the bottle, opened it and tried to pour out some of the contents. Nothing doing. This is a very thick sauce and the recent cold temperatures made it even thicker.
Hmmm. OK, what next. I still wanted to try this combination but the sauce wasn't being very helpful. I thought that heating it up would make it flow so I reached for a pot and started to put water in it. I quickly stopped when I realized there was a better, quicker and cheaper way. I've got a small electric boiler that will bring a litre of water to a boil in a few minutes. The water from the pot, about half a litre, went into that.
In the meantime, I let the now-heated water from the Senseo flow into the cup.
I heated the water in the boiler but not to boiling. Then I put the bottle of sauce into the water for about three minutes. It barely made a difference. A couple minutes more in the water didn't much change things, this sauce really had been very thick! After a couple more minutes there was a slow and steady flow, but not enough. A couple more minutes in the hot water produced the desired result. Actually, it was rather too much of a good thing as the sauce was now flowing freely and caused my cup to overflow.
I cleaned up the mess and stirred the contents of the cup.
WOW!!! Was that ever good!!!
. I added a little more sauce and EXCELLENT!!! It had been worth the effort.
