hey guys welcome to planning with crystal so today's video is all about the hotel chocolate
velvetizer machine so in today's video i'm going to show you how to make your very first
hot chocolate with your new velvetizer machine i'm also going to prepare a hot chocolate using
coattail chocolate's hot chocolate and also a powder hot chocolate so you can kind of see
the difference when using ground chocolate flakes versus chocolate powder i'll also tell you about
the temperature of the machine and some other little bits of information that i think you might
find useful so when you get your new velvetizer machine what you're going to want to pull out
ready to make your drinks you are gonna get two of these cups and these ceramic cups are dishwasher
safe and obviously hand wash safe they're also microwave safe and they are designed to look
like a cacao shell i believe which is why they've got this rather funny design you can also kind of
stack them as well if you want to put them in the cupboard one great thing about the cups they don't
get too hot when you've got your drinking so you can drink out of them and they won't
burn your hands or anything like that and they also tell you the perfect amount of
milk to put in the velvetizer when you first get it out of the box you're obviously going
to unwrap it all and you're obviously going to give everything a thorough clean
the main components it's super simple you've got this stand that your hot chocolate machine
sits on you have got the hot chocolate pots machine velvetize whatever you want to call it
itself it's got a mark there that says max with a line and you can see that on the other side
so no matter which hand you use a machine with you'll be able to see the max fill line and that
is really important because that is the maximum amount of liquid that you can put in the machine
generally you're going to put milk in but you can prepare drinks with water i've done it and it does
work it obviously for hot chocolate it just makes a much more pleasant drink if you use milk and you
can use any kind of milk if you're using soy rice whatever kind of milk you want they will all make
a good hot chocolate in this machine so you've got your little lid like this it's got a rubber
seal going around it and you have also got your little whisk that looks like this so what you do
is you're gonna get your whisk after you've done all your cleaning you're gonna put that there into
the machine and it magnetizes so it won't even fall out no matter how much wiggling about you do
very important that you put the whisk in first you make sure it's magnetized and sat still because
if it hasn't and you put your liquid in and it's not quite adhered then it just will not spin and
you just will not get any mixing or anything so it shouldn't be a massive issue because like it's
magnetized it pretty much does it for you but just something to be aware of especially when
you first start using the machine so you're going to make sure that your whisk is sitting in place
and magnetized everything's clean you've got your lid nearby for when we get to that stage then what
you're going to do is you're going to get your cup or whatever you're using to mark out the
amount of milk you want but like i said these are perfect because they do and kind of give you that
maximum amount of milk that you can put in here so you always get the kind of perfect size drink for
these cups so i'm just using a kind of standard semi-skimmed milk that i always tend to use
in my machine personally but like i said i have tried it out with like vegan milks and other types
of milks and it all works fine so you've got your milk you pour it in the velvetizer up to that line
we know they've got the right amount of milk like i've said because um i know that that cup provides
me with that kind of perfect around tilting it a little bit there to show you but it is
at the right amount the other thing to really bear in mind always put your milk in before
your powder or your flakes if you don't do it this way you'll end up with a situation where
it doesn't mix properly and you end up with lots of chocolate residue at the bottom so the advice
in the manual and my advice is always put the milk in or the liquid in first so for the first drink
i'm going to be using milky hot chocolate which is my own personal favorite comforting mellow
not too sweet and packed with deep notes of cocoa so this is a lovely milky tasting hot chocolate
hotel chocolate do a whole range they're always bringing out new flavors so there's
lots of different options so it tells us to put six heaped teaspoons of the chocolate in here
so here you can see those chocolate flakes just sitting on top of your milk and of course you're
gonna put your lid on and then obviously plug it in your machine and everything
then it's just as simple as pushing this little button on the side until it lights up like so and
your machine is going and it takes around about two and a half minutes
to prepare this hot chocolate you can actually take the lid off i guess the lid
is there to kind of protect it from any splattering but in reality that never happens
and it's also to keep the heat in but so long as it stays on that rest it will keep mixing
so if i just give you a little overhead shot there of it doing its thing and i'll speed this power
like it takes two and a half minutes but i'll speed it up so you can sort of see how it looks
okay so there it is it's completed its little spin you can see there are sometimes some little
chocolate flakes stuck there on the whisk but it cleans off really easy and i'll talk to you about
cleaning in just a second i'm going to show you the temperature of the hot chocolate because i
know people like to know about these things so i'm not touching the side or any of the metal
components because of that give a funny kind of reading i'm just going to see how hot the hot
chocolate is and i could pour this out into a cup but i think because the cup is cold it
will just reduce the temperature straight away so i'm just going to check exactly what temperature
reading we get for this one okay so that temperature is now starting to drop i got it up
to like 67 now it's dropping down to like 66 the longer i hold it here so we're going to say it's
around about 66. so the jug itself has got a spout on either side so you can pour it again
from either side and you'll still get a great kind of pour with it it's got a lovely kind of
sturdy metal handle and it's not super heavy but it's also not flimsy either
so i'm going to pour out the hot chocolate fee now i'm not actually going to do that in the
white cups because you can't actually see what the hot chocolate looks like very well in them so for
the purposes of the demonstration i'm just going to use a glass mug like this so you can really see
one great thing is because we have the whisk magnetized inside it means that it doesn't sort
of slide out and into the drink and which can happen with some other kind of milk throttles
so this is the milky hot chocolate and this is what the kind of chocolate flakes look like
this is actually a classic hot chocolate but it's the same and the same thing the same kind
of consistency this is what they look like and you don't want to use any chocolate if
you think of sort of grating your own chocolate you could totally do that but you do not want
it any thicker than this because it just won't melt and mix so in terms of the hot chocolate
maker this is what it now looks like so all i'm going to do is give it a quick soapy wash and a
quick dry come back and i will make you the other hot chocolate and we'll see what that looks like
so i have just given it a quick clean and it's ready to make another hot chocolate this time
we're going to do it with the powdered hot chocolate and the hot chocolate i'm gonna be
using is the malteser one but it's exactly the same if you want to use like cadburys or any
other powdered hot chocolate that you like so again clean pots and we're gonna pop the
little magnetic whisk one important thing to note if you are making more than one hot chocolate at
a time once you've made that first hot chocolate you need to when you've cleaned it or giving it
a rinse you need to rinse it with at least a quick dash of cold water and that just resets
the thermometer inside it again this is what the manufacturer advises if you don't do that then it
runs the risk of the machine thinking the milk is hotter than it is and not heating it sufficiently
to mix the chocolate and make you that hot chocolate again just make sure you give it a quick
rinse i mean if i'm making one after the other what i've normally do is just give it a quick
rinse with cold water and then instantly make the next one because it's you know doesn't matter if
there's a little bit of residual chocolate if you're making another hot chocolate so there we
go so this being a powder actually says just add water but i'm going to do it with milk so we can
compare it to our ground hot chocolate obviously using the same milk and everything like i said
this is just your standard powder hot chocolate i'm just gonna put four in of this because this is
a lot more chocolate than the ground and when you start picking it up if you know what i mean
getting it all over the place that's one thing with the powdered chocolate it does have more
of a tendency to kind of get everywhere and again i'll just press a little button on the
side get it going so this is what it looks like mixing and i will speed that up for you now
and there we are done with the powdered chocolate so i don't know if you noticed the machine itself
is very very quiet you can barely hear it when it's on which is great i'm just going to take
another quick temperature here interestingly enough with the powdered hot chocolate and
the second time around it doesn't seem quite as hot so it's giving me a reading of 63.6
so another see-through mug and i'll just pour it out for you
and that's what you're left with in the machine but like it doesn't really stick so it cleans
really really easily so that is the powdered hot chocolate maltesers to be exact and if i then put
the hotel chocolate hot chocolate next to it there you go so they look pretty similar um the malteser
ones obviously much lighter in color this one's much darker but this is made with proper kind of
ground grated chocolate whereas this one is made with the chocolate powder which has obviously
got quite a bit of sugar and things added to it rather than just being the pure chocolate
my personal preference i definitely prefer the grated chocolate hotel chocolate do incredible hot
chocolates i love the machine either way to make any hot chocolate because you don't get that sort
of settling at the bottom of the cup it just makes a perfectly blended hot chocolate you don't get
any powder like i said or chocolate flakes or whatever it is you're using none of it
settles at the bottom it just makes the most delicious amazingly blended hot chocolate it
really is amazing personally like i said i prefer using kotel chocolates hot chocolate
because they do so many and they are delicious they've just recently started selling them
in these like bags which are to refill the um these little containers or you could put in a tin
or what have you so i've just picked up a couple of flavors recently the vanilla white drinking
chocolate and the mint drinking chocolate i've tried both of them before and they are amazing
they do such a range of hot chocolates honestly it's just great i mean if you would like to see
some more velvetizer videos let me know leave me some comments underneath i can do different kind
of hot chocolate blends i can add different flavors and stuff to it if you want to see
how i do that um or if you'd like to see me prepare it with water i would like to see
a video of me cleaning it or whatever it is you think would be useful drop me a comment
and i will see what i can do so sometimes with these hot chocolates to make them a little bit
fancy i do this for the kids but i do it for me too who am i kidding this is my kind of preferred
squirty cream because the um applicator on the top just sort of lends itself to this
so i just like to kind of cover it in cream and then what i do is i just drop on
some chocolate flakes i have this little box of mini marshmallows that i keep nearby then
i just drop the marshmallows on there and it just makes a really kind of luxurious
treat love making it for the kids and for myself as well because you know who
wouldn't want that so i do hope you've enjoyed watching this video i'd love it
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