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On my wife's last birthday I took her to a fondue restaurant called The Melting Pot. It was great, and the highlight was the desert - Bailey's and Chocolate sauce with pound cake, strawberries, cheesecake and bananas to dip into it. However, it's expensive - so does anyone have a recipe? We have plenty of Bailey's.

Thanks

The Melting Pot is actually a chain. They have one here in Dallas. Very good it was too. We actually got a fondue pot but we don't use it that often.

Regards
Nigel

Fondues,

Hmmm. I've never really gone a bundle of the sweet sort, and I have really got to be in the mood (usually during winter) to enjoy the regular wine/cheese version.

Actually, the last time I ever had a fondue was in Switzerland (doesn't that sound a bit rude??). One thing I had in Switzerlnad which I do enjoy here is a raclette.

Andrew

Ahhhh - Raclette.......Nineteen years ago I lived and worked in Switzerland for a year. The fondues were good, but those Raclettes were amazing. So amazing that I'd surpressed the memory. Now I won't rest until I can eat another sad

We recently bought a foundue set from Costco (my wife thought we might use it). Well it is still sitting in the box unopened 5 weeks later, along with the baking tins set that came the following week

I don't know anything about it so I might surf the web and see what you cook on it.

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Well, there are three possibilities.

You can cook cheese sauces for dipping bread and apples in.

You can make a kind of broth/cooking sauce to boil meats and fish in (and the dip into cold sauces).

Or you can melt chocolate and dip fruit into it.

So search the Web for whatever of the above tickles your fancy.

Thanks Beng - it doesn't sound too exciting so far but I suppose I've got to take the plunge eventually. Wish we'd bought the deep fat fryer instead sad

I found this post interesting because as it happens we are having a fondue tonight.

We use peanut oil in the pot. Tenderloin beef cut into cubes, Mushrooms, and Shrimp, melted butter that has had some garlic slices sweated in it to dip the beef and mushrooms in after they are cooked, and cocktail sauce for the shrimp. You can also put the shrimp in the oil to heat and then dip in the garlic butter, but I buy cooked shrimp and to put it in the oil would be cooking it twice and that makes it tough, so I prefer to eat the shrimp, cocktail style. A nice crusty loaf of bread and a tossed salad finishes the meal off.

If someone would like a good old fashioned wine cheese 9swiss) fondle recipe...

Let me know.

It was given to me when we stayed with friends in St Julien et Genvois (nr the Swiss border).

Gruyere regards...

Andrew lol

My wife and I were also looking at a fondue set in Costco - was it around $35? If it's the same one let me know what you thought when you get round to using it.

Ta,
Chris

Okay, I've thought about it, and have decided I'll show my ignorance!

I bought a lovely fondue set at a yard sale last year. I have a lovely recipe book for delicious dips. But I have no idea how to use the burner thingy that goes under the pot!
Do I just light it? Or do I have to add lighter fuel to it?

When you've all picked yourselves up off the floor, could you tell me please? (She say's red with embarrassment!)

I wish I could help you on this one, but our fondue is an electric one. It's a relic from the seventies. The cord dangling across the table is a pain in the ar@#*, but it's handy to adjust the temperature of the contents of the pot.

Sorry, can't get into the Melting Pot. My wife loves it and our first visit was on her birthday in August. We went again in October and again last week. Too expensive for my liking, and then this idea of having to tip (a whole other topic, I know) 15% just because of the amount of people in your party. Come on now, what do they do? Bring you a plate of overpriced raw food that you have to cook yourself! I think the main courses are a waste of time, money and stomach space - bread and apple (though not that pot of celery and brocoli - yeuuk!) dipped in cheese, and the chocolate for dessert that is worth it. From now on, we're only going for the cheese and chocolate.

Our last visit was for a friend's birthday. They put a wine glass on the table with 3 balloons attached and charged an extra $14 !!!

And don't forget the chocolate CD with photograph inside.

I agree, it's very expensive and as we got our own fondue pot for Christmas we'll do the main courses on our own (for New Year we had shrimp in Melting Pot style Coq au Vin sauce). We keep saying we'll go back for the chocolate but haven't got round to it yet.