In rec.food.cooking Bunny McElwee wrote:
the chocolate from solid. It's a great machine and I love to use it for the
holidays for dipping all sorts of candies. My question is - Can you use a
crockpot on low to do the same thing? I got an advertisement in this months

I think a crock pot would get too hot. Chocolate melts around 80 to 85 F and
really should be kept under about 120 F for most things. In fact, you probably
want to keep it below 95 to keep it in temper for dipping. Crock pots
have to get above 140 F to cook foods at temperatures that are safe.

You might be able to get a crock pot and add a soldering iron heat controller
to it to keep the temperature down, but I don't know how stable it would
keep the temperature.

Bill Ranck
Blacksburg, Va.