On 4/23/2015 12:54 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Thursday, April 23, 2015 at 12:23:00 PM UTC-4, KenK wrote:
>> A story about fondue on NPR news this morning caught my interest. A very
>> very brief Google for recipes seem to indicate it is rather high fat. True?
>
> It's made of cheese, which is rather high fat.
>
> Alternatively, there's fondue that cooks items in hot oil. Probably
> not as fatty as breaded and fried food; if you hold a piece of
> (for example) beef in hot oil, it won't absorb much.
>
> Finally, there's a style that cooks food in hot broth. Probably the
> most healthful of the bunch.
>
> The oil and broth fondues generally are served with multiple sauces
> into which you can dip your cooked items.
>
>> Am I missing something very good? I've never tasted it that I can recall.
>
> To oversimplify, it's bread dipped in melted Swiss cheese. Good, but
> not life-changing.
>
>> Perhaps a simple recipe?
>
> Fondue is really simple. The hard part is getting the oily
> cheese to melt into the watery fluid (usually wine) smoothly.
>
> Here's one:
>
> <http://www.seriouseats.com/2015/02/how-to-make-the-best-cheese-fondue.html>
>
> With a lot of nerdy stuff about the role of the various components. You
> can skip down to the actual instructions if you don't like treating cookery
> as an exercise in laboratory science.
>
> Cindy Hamilton
>
There's also a form of fondue in which you dip fruit into melted
chocolate: good if rather decadent!

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Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

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