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Fondue is literally just shredded cheese. The typical Swiss fondue, la moitié-moitié (half half) is 50% Gruyère and 50% Vacherin + a little bit of potato starch if it’s an industrial one (otherwise it’s only cheese and you add potato starch if you want, it’s only to have a better texture and not mandatory).
Other types are just different cheeses, from a single one up to a mix of 3, varying from regional preferences.
Ingredients of an industrial fondue found in any Swiss supermarket:
You're responding to someone whose point is really clear but to quote an article on the history of American cheese:
This swiss process was then picked up by a canadian by the name of Kraft looking to make a cheese with longer shelf stability for the purpose of being left open at delis for slicing. It was made by melting cheddar chunks together. And stirring.
The term american comes from British snobbiness.
The inability to legally call it cheese comes from the natural cheese lobby. If it matches this criteria it cannot be called cheese:
That having been said american cheese is disgusting and anyone who purposely eats it is insane to me.
So the term "Swiss cheese" for those industrial blocks is legitimate, it’s our fault 😔
American cheese is fine, don't conflate the real cheese (which is just Swiss without aging or bacteria) with Kraft American Cheese Food product.
I've had American cheese that wasn't the processed thing most people think of, just a cheese made from dairy, like any other cheese.
The problem is in labeling - since American cheese can be anything from real cheese to the processed stuff, people don't know what they're getting unless they know the producer.
I am not.
From a "is this edible" standpoint however I will conflate them because neither is edible.
And now I want fondue but the fondue restaurant here is usually booked months in advance.
Sad panda noise 😔
But if you can find the cheese it is really easy to do and homemade one as there’s 2 ingredients; cheese and cheese. Just use a machine to shred it because doing it by hand is not fun.
Since I don’t drink and don’t want to go to another shop to buy shit white wine, I replaced it with cheap blond alcohol free beer, it’s perfect.
A cheap blonde beer is a very good idea, thanks! We have premade mixes (and premade in a bag) here in NL, but I'll be by myself tonight,. I will eat the entire pot of fondue myself. Which I think we all agree, is a bad idea.
I don’t see any problem, say the guy who ate one (400g) alone 3 days ago 🙄
I had Ethiopian instead, but now I feel like I have permission to eat a whole pot of it on my own!