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Make any home more relaxing and inviting with this family-size hot-cocoa maker. The easy-to-use countertop appliance mixes, heats, and froths up to 60 ounces of richly decadent hot cocoa or creamy cafe-style lattes. After an afternoon playing out in the snow, kids will enjoy a mug of cocoa to warm up with while sitting next to a fire, or adults can mix up a batch for after dinner or when friends stop by for a visit. Simply add ingredients, secure the lid, and choose one of the selections from the user-friendly push-button control panel--heat and high speed, heat and low speed, cancel, or froth/dispense. The machine's integrated nondrip spout with an on/off lever dispenses beverages directly into any favorite mug, plus it will heat remaining contents as necessary to ensure the last cup serves up as hot and delicious as the first (shuts off automatically once ideal temperature has been reached). Other highlights include a measuring scoop inside the lid, a generous handle, a sleek design, and convenient cord storage to help keep counters looking tidy. The hot-cocoa maker measures approximately 8 by 9-1/2 by 14 inches.
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Invite the whole family for hot drinks in minutes. Mix, whip and froth your delicious instant cocoas and lattes in the new 60-ounce family size cocoa grande by back to basics.
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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
If you LOVE hot chocolate and steamed milks, you NEED this!!,
This review is from: Back to Basics CL400BR Cocoa Grande 60-Ounce Hot-Cocoa Maker (Kitchen)
I have had a Cocoa Latte (the smaller model) for about 5 years now. We love it!! I stumbled upon this larger model and HAD TO HAVE IT!! We have a big family and the smaller one only does 4 cups. Even when we just had a few friends over, the Cocoa Latte was too small. This will heat, froth, and easily dispense your hot cocoas or steamed milks, and then keep them hot all day if you want. Ours has a permanent place on our counter. You can even do tomato soup in it. My only caution would be when doing spiced cider. The cider taste wouldn't come out of the pitcher, so now I just heat the water and mix the powder packet in the cup with the hot water. I have seen other hot cocoa machines on the market, but none comes close to this one. The dispensing is perfect, I don't want my little ones pouring hot drinks from a pitcher!!
27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Promising, delivers yet fails to keep delivering,
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This review is from: Back to Basics CL400BR Cocoa Grande 60-Ounce Hot-Cocoa Maker (Kitchen)
This is the third purchase I've made on Amazon.com for a Back to Basics hot cocoa maker. I've purchased two of the smaller size models in both plastic and stainless steel. They enable me to heat and serve hot milk lattes, hot cocoa and even chai. All of these B2B products share one basic and fundamental design flaw--they do not have a non-stick surface and are impossible to keep clean after the milk burns and scalds onto the bottom metallic heating plate. Other than that they are quite perfect in a variety of ways:
1. quickly and thoroughly mixes your ingredients (if you are making hot cocoa or anything else you'd like to have hot and well mixed) 2. creates a nice rich frothy foam on top of the milk in the container that you can then spoon onto drinks and top off your beverages (lattes, hot cocoa, machiattos, etc.). 3. maintains a constant hot temperature of your beverage over time that is safe enough (~140 degrees) for extended holding periods when you choose to both mix and hold your hot cocoa, milk or other mixture in the pitcher itself and leave it sitting atop the heating motor... However, you pay a steep price every time you use one of these to it's full potential--scraping burnt milk off the bottom of the container that has built up on and adhered onto the metal heating plate. I've contemplated some ideas to get around this scalded milk issue: I called Focus Electrics Group LLC and talked to them about the problem, asking that they develop up a non-stick product line (they said they'd discuss it at their next design meeting) but they offered no solutions and asked me to tell them if I found one! The possible home fixes I've thought of but not yet tried so far are: a. spray the heating plate with PAM or another odorless, tasteless non-stick application each time b. immediately empty the container when the mixture is done and do not use it to dispense or hold any milk products (i.e. mixing only) c. try to season the heating element with a non-stick coating, like a cast iron skillet (doubtful because you have to heat the element hotter than it currently goes when making hot chocolate and the plastic container it is set in would melt). The simple facts are that using these B2B products requires quite a bit of ongoing cleaning effort for a very good result. It leaves you enjoying the fruits of your labor but then wishing for much better at cleanup. I'm frustrated enough to write a review because I believe such a good product could be a great product. However, apparently the company doesn't care as much as I do, or maybe they've found it's just too expensive to put a non-stick coating onto their products (and of course fix the other durability issues cited by other reviewers). Unfortunately, I'm currently returning my 60 ounce unit to Amazon because it stopped heating milk... yes, the paddle still spins, but no hot anything anymore. So this product gets three stars in a cursed / blessed existence--I still want the muddled value from it because I can't find anything else out there to do the job it can do and that I want done. I wish this company or a competitor would figure this out because I'd gladly pay double for a better unit that actually worked like a charm and lived up to the potential of what this product can do in fits and starts...
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing...,
By Steve in H.B. (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Back to Basics CL400BR Cocoa Grande 60-Ounce Hot-Cocoa Maker (Kitchen)
Seemed to work great... Once.
Mixed and heated chocolate one time, then stopped a few seconds into the first re-heat. Unit would mix only, but do nothing in either heat setting. Manufacturer wanted me to pay shipping back to them on an instant failure so they could examine it. I suppose they will get it back, but not on my nickel. Amazon sent a call tag and I asked for a refund.
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