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Fondue originated in Switzerland as a way of using up hardened cheese.
Deriving from the French verb fondre, meaning "to melt," people
have been enjoying this meal for decades.
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The art of a Fondue is a simple concept that involves dipping food in a pot, with melted cheese, chocolate, or oil.
For the cheese fondues, bread seems to be the food choice for dipping and baguettes work well. The cheese sauce is usually a mixture of Jarlsberg, Emmenthaler and Gruyere cheeses. (click here for a recipe)
Then there's the dessert Fondue which is a chocolate sauce. This one is pretty self explanatory, as you can dip just about anything in chocolate.
And finally there is the deep frying Fondue. Peanut oil always works the best as it has the ability to achieve and maintain hot temperatures which allow for a crisping on the batter. For food, just about anything you can imagine will work. Just make sure you make a good beer batter to hold the cheese (or anything else that has a tendency to melt ...like Mars bars) in place while it cooks. Other favorite foods would be chicken, beef, pork, seafood, mushrooms, onions, zucchinis and anything wrapped in bacon.
Some people still use the old method of using fondue fuel and burners to heat the pots, but many have gone to using electric pots that are able to keep and hold the temperature a lot more steady.
Fondues are a great dinner for entertaining people as they can last as long as you want them to, and I would recommend them to anyone.
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