Cheese Fondue

[MetsFan5]

i Picked up two packets of Trader Joe’s cheese fondue tonight— a friend recommended it. It’s a seasonal item and the packets I got don’t expire until September next year. 

 

  I’m thinking it would be a fun dinner to have while decorating the tree. Have to see what my inlaws think. 

[heidih]

8 hours ago, MetsFan5 said:

i Picked up two packets of Trader Joe’s cheese fondue tonight— a friend recommended it. It’s a seasonal item and the packets I got don’t expire until September next year. 

 

  I’m thinking it would be a fun dinner to have while decorating the tree. Have to see what my inlaws think. 

 

Don't ask  just do it! (insert Nike logo here)  Unless they are lactose intolearnt everyone loves melty cheese and bread. The bread texture matters in my opinion. I like a mix of sourdough and something sweet like Kings Hawaiian but the latter may be a Cali thing. 

Edited December 21, 2018 by heidih (log)

[HungryChris]

8 hours ago, MetsFan5 said:

i Picked up two packets of Trader Joe’s cheese fondue tonight— a friend recommended it. It’s a seasonal item and the packets I got don’t expire until September next year. 

 

  I’m thinking it would be a fun dinner to have while decorating the tree. Have to see what my inlaws think. 

I got the new forks, and gel fuel for my 'new' vintage fondue set yesterday. I will have to look for the TJ's fondue. Might be fun for the first run we take at it.

HC

[Anna N]

2 hours ago, heidih said:

 

Don't ask  just do it! (insert Nike logo here)  Unless they are lactose intolearnt everyone loves melty cheese and bread. The bread texture matters in my opinion. I like a mix of sourdough and something sweet like Kings Hawaiian but the latter may be a Cali thing. 

 

 Nope. Not everyone. I love cheese and I love bread and I love fondues. I dislike cheese fondues.  Two dips and I’m done.   I find all that melted cheese overkill.   But carry-on. Just wanted to express one dissenting vote.  

[heidih]

As discussed elsewhere it is the process and company less than the taste around the holidays. Dissenting taste vote noted.

[MetsFan5]

Well my inlaws were excited to do fondue so we did! It’s such an extravagant meal— all that melted cheese (it’s a cheap thing to make but seems like such an indulgence). 

 

  TJ’s fondue was very good. We used both packages so I will go back and hope I can find more. We are it with ham, slightly cooked baby carrots, cooked baby potatoes, raw califlower, zucchini, mushrooms and apples and of course bread. It’s a fun meal and everyone enjoyed it! 

[Katie Meadow]

What was I doing during the seventies when Americans were crazed for lousy bread dipped in hot cheese? Living in New Mexico on a diet of roasted hatch chiles and flour tortillas, that's what. Somehow I missed all the fondue fuss, and distinctly remember making fun of fondue and those electric fondue pots. I've never liked the Alpine cheeses, either. By the late seventies I moved to the Bay Area and met my husband to be. His parents were exactly the kind of people who had barely used fondue pots mouldering away in the garage. They got naked with their friends at Esalen and turned on....their fondue pots.

[MetsFan5]

I actually never had fondue until 

I was in my late 20s. It was popular before my time. 

Edited December 23, 2018 by MetsFan5 (log)

[IowaDee]

Oh Dear.  Molten  cheese plus being naked....do they have scars to show from the experience?   Sounds more painful than frying bacon naked.  The cheese blobs would tend to stick,,,ouch

[Katie Meadow]

16 hours ago, IowaDee said:

Oh Dear.  Molten  cheese plus being naked....do they have scars to show from the experience?   Sounds more painful than frying bacon naked.  The cheese blobs would tend to stick,,,ouch

Experimenting with social norms can be dangerous, neh?

[Bernie]

16 hours ago, IowaDee said:

Oh Dear.  Molten  cheese plus being naked....do they have scars to show from the experience?   Sounds more painful than frying bacon naked.  The cheese blobs would tend to stick,,,ouch

I waited & waited.......still nobody asked.....

Frying bacon naked....????????

[JoNorvelleWalker]

1 hour ago, Bernie said:

I waited & waited.......still nobody asked.....

Frying bacon naked....????????

 

It is a thing.  Get over it.

 

[Kim Shook]

1 hour ago, Bernie said:

I waited & waited.......still nobody asked.....

Frying bacon naked....????????

I think this is a joke in the US.  I can't imagine that anyone really does it.  But for some reason, it is a thing that people talk about.

[quiet1]

4 hours ago, Kim Shook said:

I think this is a joke in the US.  I can't imagine that anyone really does it.  But for some reason, it is a thing that people talk about.

 

‘Because of all the fat spitting - can’t think of any common food item quite as likely to spit hit oil at you.

[Tri2Cook]

I have an electric fondue set that my wife received as a gift several years ago. It's been used exactly once. She used some purchased pouches of cheese fondue from the grocery store. I read the ingredients and it actually sounded good, all nice ingredients. Problem was, it was so boozy the cheese may as well not have been there. It contained white wine and kirsch and apparently in abundance. The booze was so strong it completely took over, we didn't enjoy it at all. I keep waffling between using the fondue pot and getting rid of it. Same with her cake pop maker. I was going to get rid of that because I have no interest in cake pops but then I discovered a whole world of little bite sized snacks that can be made in it and kept it around. Filling the little cavities with corn dog batter, sticking a chunk of hot smoked sausage in the middle and letting it do it's thing is particularly tasty. Maybe I can combine that with a nice cheese fondue to dip the little corn dogs in and make use of both gadgets. 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

31 minutes ago, Tri2Cook said:

I have an electric fondue set that my wife received as a gift several years ago. It's been used exactly once. She used some purchased pouches of cheese fondue from the grocery store. I read the ingredients and it actually sounded good, all nice ingredients. Problem was, it was so boozy the cheese may as well not have been there. It contained white wine and kirsch and apparently in abundance. The booze was so strong it completely took over, we didn't enjoy it at all. I keep waffling between using the fondue pot and getting rid of it. Same with her cake pop maker. I was going to get rid of that because I have no interest in cake pops but then I discovered a whole world of little bite sized snacks that can be made in it and kept it around. Filling the little cavities with corn dog batter, sticking a chunk of hot smoked sausage in the middle and letting it do it's thing is particularly tasty. Maybe I can combine that with a nice cheese fondue to dip the little corn dogs in and make use of both gadgets. 

 

Most of the alcohol should have evaporated.

 

[kayb]

5 hours ago, Tri2Cook said:

I have an electric fondue set that my wife received as a gift several years ago. It's been used exactly once. She used some purchased pouches of cheese fondue from the grocery store. I read the ingredients and it actually sounded good, all nice ingredients. Problem was, it was so boozy the cheese may as well not have been there. It contained white wine and kirsch and apparently in abundance. The booze was so strong it completely took over, we didn't enjoy it at all. I keep waffling between using the fondue pot and getting rid of it. Same with her cake pop maker. I was going to get rid of that because I have no interest in cake pops but then I discovered a whole world of little bite sized snacks that can be made in it and kept it around. Filling the little cavities with corn dog batter, sticking a chunk of hot smoked sausage in the middle and letting it do it's thing is particularly tasty. Maybe I can combine that with a nice cheese fondue to dip the little corn dogs in and make use of both gadgets. 

 

Now, I LIKE that idea. You could also do chunks of cheese inside the corn dog batter.

[Tri2Cook]

6 hours ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

Most of the alcohol should have evaporated.

I thought the same but it sure didn't taste like it did. 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

3 minutes ago, Tri2Cook said:

I thought the same but it sure didn't taste like it did. 

 

Odd.  But I've never had anything too boozy so I wouldn't know.

 

[HungryChris]

I spotted this at Aldi this morning.

HC

[HungryChris]

Now that I have just about everything I need, it's a matter of deciding what to have for dippage. I am kind of thinking about ripe pears, blanched baby carrots & sugar snaps, raw cauliflower slices, leftover kielbasa and garlic and thyme croutons.

HC

 

[Kim Shook]

6 hours ago, HungryChris said:

Now that I have just about everything I need, it's a matter of deciding what to have for dippage. I am kind of thinking about ripe pears, blanched baby carrots & sugar snaps, raw cauliflower slices, leftover kielbasa and garlic and thyme croutons.

HC

 

Lovely pot!

[MetsFan5]

Since it’s snowing (ok any excuse would suffice) we did cheese fondue again tonight. We used this product:

 

http://www.mifroma.com/ourcheeses/classics/original-swiss-fondue

 

which was very good and about $8. It has the wine and sherry in it. 

 

  For dippers we had ham slices, radishes (a new one to us but it was good), califlower, bread, mushrooms, zucchini and apples. Ideal for a snowy night. Now I’m about to another the left over apple slices in peanut butter and watch a dvd! 

[David Ross]

I think it's the season for cheese fondue.  I bought some white asparagus at the local German market, so I think along with ham, bread and maybe a few pickles that sounds like a good fondue feast.

[Kim Shook]

1 hour ago, David Ross said:

I think it's the season for cheese fondue.  I bought some white asparagus at the local German market, so I think along with ham, bread and maybe a few pickles that sounds like a good fondue feast.

Sounds perfect.  Another thing that is good in cheese fondue is tiny little potatoes that have been roasted.  And puff pastry "bread sticks".