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Chocolate tempering machine from China

A tempering machine is judged on whether the chocolate leaving it is in temper every minute of the shift, and that depends on cooling you may have to supply yourself, which many quotes leave out.

Ask about this machine ↗Where the numbers come from

Written and listings checked 30 September 2026. Every figure on this page names its source.

What you are actually comparing.

Two quotes, one machine name

What hides inside the price

Batch or continuous

Batch and wheel machines temper a tank at a time and suit hand work. Continuous machines temper a flow and feed an enrober or depositor. Output figures for the two are not comparable.

Cooling supply

Continuous tempering removes heat in a cooling zone. Some machines have a built-in chiller; others need a steady chilled water supply from you. That is a second machine to buy and install.

Number of zones and control

Continuous machines heat, cool and reheat in separate zones. Ask how many zones, who makes the controllers, and whether each zone temperature is shown and logged.

Rated output at your chocolate

Kilograms per hour is usually rated on a standard dark chocolate. Milk, white and high-viscosity recipes may run slower. Ask the rating for your type.

Circulation back to storage

Unused tempered chocolate must return and be re-melted. Ask whether return piping and a melting tank are in the scope.

Decode the model code.

Chinese continuous tempering machines are often named QT plus a number. In the two QT250 listings checked the number matched the stated kilograms per hour. Treat it as the rating on a standard chocolate, not on yours.

Before you ask for a price.

Send these with the enquiry. Without them, any number a factory gives you is a guess dressed as a quotation.

Chocolate types: dark, milk, white or compound, and their viscosity if known.
Kilograms per hour needed by the enrober, depositor or moulding line downstream.
Whether you have chilled water on site, or need a chiller in the price.
Melting tank and piping from storage to the machine and back.
Room temperature where the machine will stand.

Turn the claim into a demonstration.

Require this	A pass looks like
Temper your own chocolate at the rated output for at least one hour, taking a temper test every quarter hour.	Every sample sets with gloss and snap within your normal setting time.
Log every zone temperature for the full run.	Each zone stays at its set point, log attached to the FAT record.
Stop flow for a short break and restart.	Chocolate back in temper without re-melting the circuit.

The documents that must arrive with it.

EU Declaration of Conformity naming model and serial number.
Food contact declarations under Regulation (EC) 1935/2004 for jacket, pump, screw and piping.
If a chiller is supplied: refrigerant type and charge, and its own declaration.

The one people forget. The chiller's refrigerant data. EU fluorinated gas rules affect who may service it.

When this is the wrong machine.

Buy something else if

Named, not hedged

You use only compound coating.

A melting tank with temperature control. Compound coating does not need tempering.

You make pralines and bars by hand in small batches.

A tabletop batch or wheel tempering machine. A continuous machine needs steady flow to stay in temper.

Where the numbers come from.

We name the kind of source, how many and when, and never the factory. Listed prices are asking prices, not landed cost. Where we do not hold a fact we say so: that is a GAP, not an estimate.

Listings · 13Thirteen marketplace listings for chocolate tempering machines, checked September 2026, advertised US$1,800 to US$40,000, from tabletop batch machines to continuous units. Asking prices, not landed cost.
Listings · 2Two QT250 continuous tempering machines checked September 2026 both stated 250 kg/h: one at US$19,700 to US$20,000 with an air-cooled chiller and 4 zones, one at US$21,000 to US$25,000 requiring a constant chilled water supply.
GAPGAP - no supplier quotations logged for this machine yet. Three to five quotations for one configuration would give a real price spread.

Related machines.

Chocolate enrobing machine. Choose an enrober with its own tempering unit if coating is the only use for the chocolate.
Gummy depositor. Read the depositor page if you want to deposit tempered chocolate into moulds as well as gummies.

Every machine we source in this area is on the Food & candy page. How a project runs, stage by stage, is on how it works, and what it costs is on pricing.

Straight answers

Questions buyers ask about this machine.

Chinese vs European chocolate tempering machine: what differs?+

Temperature control precision, heat exchanger design and parts supply. Test temper stability over a full hour on your chocolate before you decide.

What should a chocolate tempering machine inspection checklist include?+

Model and serial against the declaration, zones counted, chiller present if quoted, guards at the pump and screw, and a temper test every quarter hour on your chocolate.

What CE documentation comes with a tempering machine?+

A Declaration of Conformity under the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC until 19 January 2027, then the Machinery Regulation (EU) 2023/1230, plus 2014/35/EU and 2014/30/EU. A CE mark alone proves nothing.

Who is the EU importer of a tempering machine?+

The company placing it on the EU market, named on the machine or documents, which checks the conformity file. Buying direct, that is you.

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