Fondue Favorites?

slothiegal

OK, it's fondue night at the slothie household (yay!).  Unfortunately, H is working late which means I'm in charge of prep (boo).  What are you favorite dipping accouterments for cheese fondue?  

wandajune6

Bread. Lots of bread.

I'm also a fan of tart apples. But really just bread.

lyndausvi

I'm mostly just bread too.   

I prefer raclette instead.    More options.

lc07

apples and chopped veggies! I wanna come over!

jdluvr06

Bread. Definitely bread.

Jells2dot0

We did fondue on Saturday!!

We use whole wheat, sour dough, and pumpernickel bread.

DH also used cauliflower, carrots, and broccoli.

caitlinmca

Bread, lots of bread as PP have stated, same with the veggies, and apples but the Melting Pot had these "dippers" or whatever, its been a while lol and they were different meats. mmmmm meat and cheese!!!! Edit: the "dippers" were Mortadella, Capicola, Salami and summer sausage joined by crisp cornichons. It was melt in your mouth amazing.

kaos16

I agree with bread and apples. Can you get your hands on soft pretzels? I haven't had it but I feel like that would be absolutely amazeballs!!!!

RebeccaFlower

I'm also in the apples and bread category. The raw veggies just don't do it for me.

theartistformerlyknownas

I'm all about the green apples and bread! Sourdough pretzels are good too.

artbyallie

We did pretzel bread last time which was amazing. H also likes including some kind of meat when possible. Ham, sausage, whatever. I like apples.

slothiegal

Mmmm thank you ladies! I haven't had fondue since before H moved out here last year, and I couldn't remember for the life of me what we had for dippers besides bread (I love me some carbs).

Chipmunk415

Slothie, Evil Chipmunk is highly disappointed that there's no mention of chocolate fondue.....of course, Evil Chipmunk would dive face first into the pot- dippers? who needs em.

slothiegal

Chipmunk415 said: Slothie, Evil Chipmunk is highly disappointed that there's no mention of chocolate fondue.....of course, Evil Chipmunk would dive face first into the pot- dippers? who needs em.
Gurl, you think any assistance with chocolate?  I'll slurp that shit up with a straw...and I have an extra one for Evil Chipmunk, if she's interested.
ETA BOXES OMG.

Blergbot

We did asparagus, broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, bell pepper and bread recently. Bonus: you can make an awesome omelette or pasta primavera with the leftovers the next day. I know you don't need any help with the chocolate, but my friend introduced us to a revelation: donut holes! The glazed kind. I'm not even that big of a donuts, but they were awesome!

JennyColada

Blergbot said:

donut holes! The glazed kind. I'm not even that big of a donuts, but they were awesome!

Slightly unrelated, but I tried Jack in the Box's croissant donuts last night and they were surprisingly not bad!

southernbelle0915

Its probably too late but I like green peppers, celery, grape tomatoes, and bread.

Chipmunk415

Slothie, Evil Chipmunk would LOOOOVE to come share some chocolate fondue with you. Though she's a bit perplexed as to why you'd waste perfectly good chocolate when it gets stuck in the straw- hence her "face first in bowl" idea.

How did the fondue go?

slothiegal

I like how Evil Chipmunk thinks!  Goodbye straw, HELLO DOUBLE WIDE FONDUE POT FOR SLOTHIE/CHIPMUNK FACES.

It was yummy!  I guess I should've known better than to stress, it's hard to fuck up putting things in melted cheese.  

doeydo

I've never had cheese fondue.  

Jells2dot0

doeydo said:

I've never had cheese fondue.  

You need to fix that ASAP!!!

DH and I incorporate our love of cheese fondue with our travels. We have had fondue all over the US and Europe!

theartistformerlyknownas

doeydo said:

I've never had cheese fondue.  

You haven't lived. Come over to my house, we'll stick our faces into pots of cheese and drink copious amounts of wine. Then we'll do chocolate fondue with raw cookie dough.

FI asked if I wanted a cheese and/or chocolate fountain at the wedding, because he knows my love for both of these things. I told him I couldn't be trusted with that, because I would stick my face in it and ruin it for everyone, and my dress. 

slothiegal

lolo883 said:

doeydo said:

I've never had cheese fondue.  

You haven't lived. Come over to my house, we'll stick our faces into pots of cheese and drink copious amounts of wine. Then we'll do chocolate fondue with raw cookie dough.

FI asked if I wanted a cheese and/or chocolate fountain at the wedding, because he knows my love for both of these things. I told him I couldn't be trusted with that, because I would stick my face in it and ruin it for everyone, and my dress. 

Can I crash this date?  Because I want to go to there.

theartistformerlyknownas

slothiegal said:

lolo883 said:

doeydo said:

I've never had cheese fondue.  

You haven't lived. Come over to my house, we'll stick our faces into pots of cheese and drink copious amounts of wine. Then we'll do chocolate fondue with raw cookie dough.

FI asked if I wanted a cheese and/or chocolate fountain at the wedding, because he knows my love for both of these things. I told him I couldn't be trusted with that, because I would stick my face in it and ruin it for everyone, and my dress. 

Can I crash this date?  Because I want to go to there.

Come on over!

lc07

Cheeeeeeese.

Nymeru

Sourdough bread, grapes and tart green apples.  I love fruit with fondue more than anything else.

Chipmunk415

Dh and i had a chocolate fondue in place of a grooms cake at our wedding. Dipping choices included strawberries pineapple pretzels and marshmallows. We had a very simple white cake so some folks put chocolate fondue on that.

We didn't get to have fondue due to visiting with everyone, but staff at our venue put together two to go boxes of dippers two big cups of the chocolate and another box of cake for us (lunch reception following morning ceremony). We had private fondu at our hotel.

wandajune6

lyndausvi said:

I'm mostly just bread too.   

I prefer raclette instead.    More options.

I had to look this up. Oh my god does that sound wonderful. Trying to track it down near me! Thank you!!

LadyMillil

wandajune6 said:

lyndausvi said:

I'm mostly just bread too.   

I prefer raclette instead.    More options.

I had to look this up. Oh my god does that sound wonderful. Trying to track it down near me! Thank you!!

Warning - the Raclette cheese is super smelly. We have raclette parties quite often in the winter because DH is Swiss and I always have to air out the house and put some baking soda is the fridge after. It tastes so good though! And, on behalf of DH, I have to tell you that you should spend the extra money to get raclette cheese imported from Switzerland, not North American raclette cheese.

wandajune6

LadyMillil said:

wandajune6 said:

lyndausvi said:

I'm mostly just bread too.   

I prefer raclette instead.    More options.

I had to look this up. Oh my god does that sound wonderful. Trying to track it down near me! Thank you!!

Warning - the Raclette cheese is super smelly. We have raclette parties quite often in the winter because DH is Swiss and I always have to air out the house and put some baking soda is the fridge after. It tastes so good though! And, on behalf of DH, I have to tell you that you should spend the extra money to get raclette cheese imported from Switzerland, not North American raclette cheese.

Thank you!

beethery

As cheesetastic as my life is, I have never had fondue.

I need to address that this year. Maybe I'll get birthday fondue.