The Velvetiser. Please explain if a hot drink can ever be worth this kind of money??!

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Just that really.
£100 for a machine which I need to buy the hot chocolate for.
Is it really that special?
My eldests birthday in a couple of weeks who likes hot chocolate and is hard to buy for, but would it be money well spent?
Views please 🤞🏻

My DS loves hot chocolate from the velvetiser. I got it for my birthday. We just use normal options choc and it's delicious. I use it more for coffee latte, iced coffee etc.

I adore my velvetiser. The sachets are expensive but we just don’t use the official sachets - it’s just chocolate, use whatever chocolate you like. It’s definitely worth the money.

My son got a Dualit milk frother for Christmas and uses it every day. As far as I can tell from my friend’s machine, it is identical inside to the Velvetiser but the exterior is less sexy.

@TeenDivided ok that's good then I just thought I had seen people saying it made it frothy

Yabu. If you're not into hot chocolate you may not appreciate it. But people that like HC... I bought one for DH and he really enjoys it. You can use normal choc powder in it as well. It makes nicd frothy milk, so i occasionally make a nice latte for myself.

Wow thanks all.
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Thanks for your input and suggestions 👍🏻.

Chocolate is already sexy enough 😂.

I was eyeing these up in Hotel Chocolat yesterday. The copper one looks great but I couldn't bring myself to pay 100 quid for one.

Thank you just loaded them onto my shopping list of companies.

If you are just using milk then it froths, adding the chocolate stops the frothing quite a bit, using different types of milk (including vegan) can also change the level of froth with something high in fat being better if you want a decent head 😆

They regularly have offers that brings it down to £70. We got one for Christmas from my parents. It really is great. You can also put cheap chocolate powder in it... And it comes out tasting great.

I bought one for DD Christmas before covid using a code I got on here actually and it has been used so much. Younger DD was confident to use it and no risk of scalding. I’ve also bought one as a gift and would replace ours if it broke.

Try full fat milk and fill just under the fill line and see if you get a better result.

What's wrong with Cadbury's hot chocolate powered and a kettle (with milk).

Nothing, but the velvetiser is another level. Silky smooth and the chocolate stays in the milk to the last sip, there is no having to swill it round the mug towards the bottom. Ours gets used 2 or 3 times a week for hot chocolate for the 2 of us. And DH uses it for milk for lattes if he's working from home.

I have one and adore it. I have had mine since they first came out so a good number of years now and it is still going strong. For me it has been well worth the price I paid for it.

Ok so I've frothed just milk in it today to pour into coffee granules. The recipient had to spoon the froth in once they got near to drinking it all 😂 I wish it frothed the chocolate flakes like that.

We love ours - had it a couple of years. This Christmas we bought my mother one and DS1 (got them cheaper as had joined the club thingy).

We've been skiing in Italy a few times and the hot chocolate they sell in the bars on the slopes are to die for!

If I knew that a hot chocolate from a Velvetiser tasted the same then I'd definitely buy one!!!!

I have one. I was lucky to be chosen for the mumsnet trial so mine was free, but I love it so much that I then bought one for my close friend.
I use it most days, I make frothy milk in it for my coffee in the morning, then DH usually has a mid morning hot chocolate, and later dd often has one after school and I sometimes have one in the evening.
I use all sorts of chocolate in it as we often get given hot chocolate as a gift, but the HC ones are really delicious and have my favourite flavour.
I will definitely buy another when this wears out, I love it !

DD has copper HC one, uses it constantly and loves it. Highly recommend as present will be well used when friends come round too.

I got one as a gift and love it ( apart from when I have to wash it). It's best with the sachets but you can use any hot chocolate powder.

Cadbury's powder tastes like pure sugar, and like it's from a catering tent at a School Fayre. Velvetiser servings taste like it's from a posh café.

Its amazing. Love ours. Though we get the chocolate from somewhere else. Wholesale in big bags. It's cheaper but not cheap. Best hot chocolates I've ever had 🤤

Honestly I've rarely had one out since as they just aren't as good,

No.