Chocolate and cheese fondue?
By nancyrowina
@nancyrowina (3850)
January 17, 2009 6:32am CST
I was watching a cookery show late last night and they did a feature on fondue sets which are apparently coming back into fashion. They showed you some idea's for what to make fondue out of and they sounded nice, champagne and cheese and a kind of chicken broth that I'd never seen before as fondue. They also had a chocolate one and the woman doing the feature mentioned people had started making cheese and chocolate fondue together and mentioned it would be very heavy. I wonder what it would taste like as I love cheese and chocolate but they are not 2 foods you'd naturally put together in the same dish. Would you try chocolate and cheese fondue? Either making it or just eating it at a party.
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@twoey68 (13627)
• United States
17 Jan 09
I used to have a fondue pot. I never tried the chocolate fondue though I'd probably like it. I did try the cheese fondue and after one bite I knew I'd never like it...I guess it kind of put me off fondue all together.
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@AmbiePam (120637)
• United States
17 Jan 09
I almost always will try something new. I've had chocolate covered potato chips, but chocolate and cheese seems very extreme. I wonder if it matters what kind of cheese? Forget it if it is bleu cheese or pepper jack cheese. I don't like those even without chocolate.
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@nancyrowina (3850)
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18 Jan 09
Yeah I can't imagine it working with blue cheese at all, not a taste that compliments chocolate.
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@drknlvly6781 (6246)
• United States
17 Jan 09
You know what, if I saw this at a party, I would try it at least once just to see what it tastes like. There aren't many foods that I would just outright not try to see if I like it. I mean, I'm not allergic to either, so it wouldn't hurt to try it once. Then I would know if I liked it or not.
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@nancyrowina (3850)
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18 Jan 09
I'd try it as they both made out of dairy products so it should work, I think the flavour of one would drown out the other though, it would taste of either chocolate or cheese and just be slightly thicker than a chocolate fondue on it's own.
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@drknlvly6781 (6246)
• United States
19 Jan 09
Dairy?!? Ooh, I might have to retract my statement. As lactose ignant as I am, I try not to tease the bear in the monkey house with new dairies. Might run everyone out of the house lol.
@LouRhi (1502)
• Australia
17 Jan 09
yep I would try it for sure!
Chocolate and cheese are also two of my favourite foods, to me it makes perfect sense to put them both together. Of course it couldn't just be any old cheese or chocolate, it would need to be the good stuff.
I can almost taste it in my mouth now. I would dip a strawberry in it. What would you try?
@nancyrowina (3850)
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18 Jan 09
I wouldn't know whether to use bread or fruit, on the show I watched the recommended little pieces of cake for the chocolate ones too.
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@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
18 Jan 09
It sounds a little strange but I would try it. I'm pretty open about trying foods and would be curious about it if it were there and other people were eating it. I would be looking at their expressions though.lol I really like fondue and cheese both but wouldn't have thought of them as being eat together. What the hey..I've eat stranger stuff..sure I'd try it.
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@nancyrowina (3850)
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19 Jan 09
There are weirder things you could combine, the more I think about it the less weird it sounds.
@agirlfromtomorrow (290)
• Egypt
18 Jan 09
I would try it, but I don't think I would go as far as making it, If I ever cross path with it I'd be tempted to try it. nothing more though
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@nancyrowina (3850)
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18 Jan 09
It would be nightmare to clean the fondue set if it went cold and set in it.
@cher913 (25781)
• Canada
17 Jan 09
we have oil fondues about every 3 months or so where we cook meat and cheese in there, my sister in law has used chicken broth as it is less fattening? than oil. we seldom have a chocolate fondue and even less, we have a cheese fondue. they are not that hard, just take a lot of prep work.
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@drannhh (15219)
• United States
17 Jan 09
I prefer not to eat foods that everyone dips into at a party, because some people have a different idea of sanitation than I do. As for the flavors, the chicken broth goes well with cheese, but personally I'd prefer to keep the chocolate and the cheese separate because most cheeses are salty, and my chocolate preference runs to the dark and less salty. Also the only place I like cheese sweetened is in a cheesecake.
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@Loverbear (4918)
• United States
18 Jan 09
The chocolate and cheese fondue might not be too bad if you used a soft cheese that didn't have a strong taste. Something like a soft brie or a camembert. They aren't a heavy cheese and they would have a lower melting point than the chocolate so your chocolate wouldn't burn while you're trying to melt the cheese. Also, you could use a cream cheese, as in a chocolate cheese cake type fondue.
You definitely would need to watch what kind of cheese you would use for a chocolate/cheese fondue, but it might not be too bad with the right one.
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
18 Jan 09
EWW!! i guess if i liked cheese and it didnt make me sick i might see it in a different light but i am so lactose intolerant that a bite of cheese makes me sick for hours.. it has to be mixed in with like casseroles etc before i can eat it.. chocolate i like but there arent many things i would dip into it i dont think
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