Hacker News Reader

Comment by justinclift | Hacker News Reader

Ugh, that FAQ has clearly deceptive marketing bullshit in it. eg:

  Can I use my own molds with CocoTerra?
  
  Yes! You can easily re-melt the chocolate from the CocoTerra machine
  and pour it into your own molds.

So, that's a "No", not a "Yes". You can't use your own molds with the machine.

But you're welcome to re-melt the chocolate afterwards however you like.

Just like any other chocolate.

When there's one marketing lie, it's probably not the only one. :(

View on HN

Hi Justin. We appreciate your criticism. It's not intended to be a "lie" but rather an explanation of how people can use existing molds if they have them. You are correct that you can't fit a third party mold onto the CocoTerra machine, but you can either pour the chocolate while still liquid into your own molds or remelt. Many people don't know whether or not you can remelt the chocolate while also maintaining temper. We'll take a look at the language in the FAQ. Thank you.

No worries, hopefully it all works out well. :)

I’m not sure that qualifies as a lie. If you stop reading after the ‘Yes!’ maybe you’d misinterpret it, but the following sentence is crystal clear.

It's not a lie, yes, but it does rather undermine the entire point of the machine if you have to re-temper outside of it to use a standard shaped mold.

Since the chocolate comes out of the machine tempered, you can pretty easily use the seeding method to maintain temper when melting for other molds. This is much easier than wild crystallization which is required when starting with a fully untempered batch.

The ring molds look quite awkward too…

Reply on news.ycombinator.com