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tkradtke

tkradtke

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Soooooo..... I just impulse purchased a huge fondue set from the thrift shop this afternoon. The kids and I thought it would be fun for New Years Eve (we always try to find fun snacky food for that night).

Now that we own this... what should we do with it? :giggle
 
Never had fondue. But if I understand correctly, it's things to dip into. Which makes me think chocolate, for any number of things you'd dip into chocolate (we had a chocolate fountain at our wedding reception). Obviously, cheesy spinach dip ;)
Marinara sauce or similar for pizza bites, or garlic bread. Dipping sauces for chicken bites, salsa for taquitos or chips. I'd be on pinterest immediately
 
I loooooove fondue!

Especially cheese fondue and dip with bread and raw veggies like carrot, cucumber, bell pepper, mushrooms, etc.
We eat this as a fun dinner on days like New Years indeed! So I think you should totally go for it!
You should know that it goes really quick so you should get more fondue-cheese then you think you'll need. We usually use 1 packet and then halfway through heat up the second packet.

Of course you can also go for chocolate and dip with fruit, marshmallows, etc.
 
Thanks for the suggestions! I'm on pinterest right now... so many choices! I would love any tried and true recipes/suggestions/dippers, etc. The set I bought is a huge complete set with all of the cups, forks, etc. and a revolving wooden base (there are little color coded spoonish things that I'm not sure what to do with though). I'm now thinking that I might go back and get the two simpler pots that they had as well (they were just $5 each) so we could do more of a spread instead of just one thing. So excited!
 
We do this every New Year's Day. We make a beer/cheese fondue with lots of garlic and then broil boneless/skinless chicken breast, chop it up and dip that along with sourdough bread chunks and granny smith apples. Yum.
 
You can also do what we call Chinese fondue, which is very very thin slices of chicken, beef or whatever. The fondu pot is filled with a savoury broth to dip and cook your slices. My plates have some ridges around the top of the plate where everyone can add a few spoonfuls of sauces as simple as mustard and ketchup or fancy smanchy like bernaise. I've even seen it done with hotdogs for the kids. Also called hot pot.
Here is a Pinterest link. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/419397784020779160/

With a few pots at the ready you could do a three or four course meal.
 
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Color-coded spoonish things makes me think of a raclette grill. Maybe it does both raclette and fondue? Either way, yum! My kitchen is too small for extra gadgets, but I'd be all over fondue if I could :)
 
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my daughter was huge into it a few years back. she asked for one for Christmas one year. it got good use, but she recently went from vegetarian for the last 3 years to full blown vegan ... so no cheese. we would do it for christmas eve if we were home and not traveling and deftly for new year's eve. it was a really fun family tradition!!! i guess we could still do it with some nice dark chocolate as just a dessert fondue?! mmm.

enjoy, it's addictive!
 
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tkradtke said:
Thanks for the suggestions! I'm on pinterest right now... so many choices! I would love any tried and true recipes/suggestions/dippers, etc. The set I bought is a huge complete set with all of the cups, forks, etc. and a revolving wooden base (there are little color coded spoonish things that I'm not sure what to do with though). I'm now thinking that I might go back and get the two simpler pots that they had as well (they were just $5 each) so we could do more of a spread instead of just one thing. So excited!
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i bought the melting pot cookbook. maybe you can find it at your library or second hand online ???
 
We used to do it many a Friday night when my daughter was little, but I haven't done it for years now. I bet the boys would think it is cool so maybe I should!
 
when I was little we did it and it was a blast...thinking back it makes me laugh, we had a pot of oil (for meat and potatoes) and then another of cheese.
my dad would get impatient with the oil, it never really stayed hot, and would take to stove to get hot hot..then mom would make my brother and I wait to put our stuff in (cause it was too hot)
I always got the avacado green tipped forks! funny to remember that!
kinda strange..but it was fun...great conversations and we got to give mom and dad a bad time about it thru the years!
my mom always has a pot of cheese going for parties...lots of bread to dip...it is some yummy cheese..
 
You guys have me so excited to do this! NYE for us is a night spent eating and playing games and I'm always at a loss for something "fun" to fix. My son saw the fondue set in the thrift store and he was actually the one who suggested getting it. I'm a total sucker for anything that makes a special memory (Anne you should scrap yours!).

Thanks for the suggestion Jenn... I did a search for The Melting Pot recipes and found a few floating around online. The tough part is narrowing them down. I am seriously thinking about going back for the other two pots. If this becomes our NYE tradition, I won't feel bad packing the fondue pots up and storing them with our holiday decorations vs. trying to find space for them in the kitchen.

Lorry... thanks for the suggestion on what the spoon things might be. I have to unwrap them and take a closer look at them.

Lindzee... thanks for the hotpot info too! I'll have to check that out.

So much fun!
 
I think the colour coded forkish things are what you use to put your food on (like bread) and then put it in the pot. They are colour coded so you know which one is yours.
 
Here is a pic of the spoon things. They're shorter than the forks, and kind of a shallow ladle shape. I've been looking around and I haven't found any answers yet.

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Oooh I didn't read correctly.
But I do know that there are special wire mesh spoons that you can use when you fondue in oil so you can broil your meat, fish or vegetables into a little net. I also read that if you can't find those, you can use slotted spoons. I think that may be what you have there!
 
Oooh, I know what those are. They're for scooping the melted stuff onto food that you can't really dip with. Say you melt some chocolate and have little scoops of ice cream. You don't want to to dip the ice cream into the chocolate because it'll melt. So you scoop the chocolate out and put it on the ice cream.
 
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