Comments on: Chocolate candle gracefully decomposes into fondant

By: M

Fri, 04 May 2012 19:33:00 +0000

http://boingboing.net/2006/04/14/explosive-but-edible.html

By: Alphatech Solutions

Alphatech Solutions — Fri, 04 May 2012 07:00:00 +0000

the light must be delicious

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Fri, 04 May 2012 04:58:00 +0000

Real men have their red wings

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 04 May 2012 01:59:00 +0000

confirmation bias.

By: NelC

NelC — Thu, 03 May 2012 23:45:00 +0000

Have you tasted American chocolate?

By: Ian Wood

Ian Wood — Thu, 03 May 2012 22:34:00 +0000

Does it explode? No?

I AM NOT INTERESTED.

(beyond the amount of interest required to post this comment, I mean)

By: info

info — Thu, 03 May 2012 21:29:00 +0000

“DeSSert” – Two ‘S’es, like here up on my insignia from the Spelling Nazi Police!

Why can’t you colonists learn the difference between a huge mass of sand and a cake?

Next up: “Pinocchio”, not “Pinnochio”…

By: GrumpySteen

GrumpySteen — Thu, 03 May 2012 21:04:00 +0000

Fondant au chocolate isn’t at all the same as the crappy decorative icing that we call fondant. Fondant au chocolate is a cake filled with melted chocolate ganache. Much tastier.

By: Daemonworks

Daemonworks — Thu, 03 May 2012 19:50:00 +0000

Please note: This is for making “fondant au chocolat”, a sort of cake with chocolately goodness inside, not the wierd icing-like stuff that most people associate with the word “fondant”. They aren’t remotely the same thing.

By: NelC

NelC — Thu, 03 May 2012 19:15:00 +0000

What is it with the confusion between ‘desert’ and ‘dessert’ this week? Suddenly I’m seeing it all over the place.

By: Erika Wiggins

Erika Wiggins — Thu, 03 May 2012 19:01:00 +0000

Chocolate does not magically turn into fondant. That is all.

By: mccrum

mccrum — Thu, 03 May 2012 17:44:00 +0000

Though, to be fair, desert-eaters are a notoriously impatient bunch.

By: smithviki

smithviki — Thu, 03 May 2012 17:32:00 +0000

It might taste better in a dessert rather than in a desert.

By: SamSam

SamSam — Thu, 03 May 2012 17:14:00 +0000

Actually, they show a metal tube filled with large air holes. I assume that the holes are necessary to allow burning of the candle, but it seems to me that wax will still spill out.

An there’s pretty much no way around this, because wax or something similar + air is required for the candle to burn.

Verdict: cute grad-school concept. Not going to happen.

By: TwinkieFGR

TwinkieFGR — Thu, 03 May 2012 16:38:00 +0000

I hate you for putting those images in my head.

By: Harvey

Harvey — Thu, 03 May 2012 16:33:00 +0000

If the candle chocolate is similar to the inside of a Lindt truffle, it wouldn’t take any time to melt. They use an oil that has a melting point just above room temperature so it melts when you put it in your mouth but stays solid otherwise.

By: TwinkieFGR

TwinkieFGR — Thu, 03 May 2012 16:27:00 +0000

I was actually trying to make a dumb joke about how unappetizing fondant is.
It is a neat idea though, and to be fair, it might be better freshly melted? Before it hardens into blech?

By: atteSmythe

atteSmythe — Thu, 03 May 2012 16:21:00 +0000

Images on the site show that the candle is contained in a metal cylinder that ‘s surrounded by the chocolate. The wax should be contained, with just the heat from the candle melting the chocolate.

By: gibson5string

gibson5string — Thu, 03 May 2012 16:19:00 +0000

At last!!! Something with a string hanging out of it that I actually WANT to eat.

By: TwinkieFGR

TwinkieFGR — Thu, 03 May 2012 16:13:00 +0000

So… instead of melting into an unpleasant wax it melts into a chocolate flavored unpleasant wax?