Trudeau 0823004 Electric 11-Piece 3-in-1 Fondue Set
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Trudeau 0823004 Electric 11-Piece 3-in-1 Fondue Set
Customer Review: Great Product
Summary: 5 Stars
I researched tons of fondue pots and I was prepared to spend $100 for a quality product. I finally chose this one for much less and it is an excellent product. It is beautiful, too.
You can find great recipes online and if you look up Melting Pot fondue recipes and look around, you can find a full three course. I had the Melting Pot beer cheese fondue first and the oil-less red wine and broth for my main course. It was delicious!
One of the great things about this product is that, since you have the separate ceramic bowl, you don't necessarily have to clean the pot in the middle of the meal. First, I made the broth and left it to simmer on the stove. Then I told everyone to get the veggies out while I began to make the cheese fondue. Meanwhile, I had water heating in the steel fondue pot, with the empty ceramic bowl on top. Once the cheese melted, I poured it into the ceramic bowl, which was already hot. Everyone loved it! Since it is not direct heat, the cheese remained evenly heated. The only draw back is that it was hard to get the cheese to a comfortable temperature, but I'm sure with a little practice and patience, I'll get it right.
After that course, I just took potholders and lifted the ceramic bowl out, put it in the sink, again using the potholders, dumped out the water in the silver bowl, and poured the broth from the stove in. Viola! Ready for the next course. This time, again, the drawback is that it is hard to get the right temp, but I think this would be true with any pot; you just have to learn the proper setting and be patient. With practice and practice, we'll get it right!
I think that it would be a pain to try to have three courses, since you would have to clean the cheese course to get to the chocolate. This product is the only one that I found that even offers two CONVENIENT options.
Order with confidence.
Customer Review: This Pot Makes Special Dinner More Special
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the niftiest product we've bought in quite a while (amazon.com offered the best price we found). After a very good (and very pricey) dinner at a local fondue chain restaurant, we decided we could create a similar dinner and have more room than the cramped booth for 4 at the restaurant. We used no creativity and duplicated the restaurant's menu. It was easy to find lookalike recipes online for the wine-based cooking broth as well as the cheese and chocolate fondues. This little pot really does it all. We started with a cheese-fondue appetizer using the ceramic insert(we did find that steaming our veggies a little before dipping them made them far superior to the cold, hard ones offered at the restaurant). It was quick and easy to soak the ceramic insert while we used the stainless pot half full of our pre-heated broth to cook tenderloin filet, chicken and shrimp bites (we skewered beef and shrimp on toothpicks and after a minute or so, dipped them out with little mesh dippers...we cooked the chicken bites longer). Then, a quick clean-up of the soaked ceramic insert made it ready to add dark chocolate chips and a little heavy cream to make a quick dessert fondue that was ready by the time the strawberries were washed and hulled. Then to make a great meal greater, the next day I sauteed a couple of onions (sliced thinly) in a little butter and added the refrigerated broth from the previous evening's fondue and we enjoyed the best French onion soup we've ever made.Customer Review: Taking the scare out of fondue
Summary: 5 Stars
We (family of four with two teenage children) have been 'fondue-ing' yearly for 16 years with sets that use sterno or the gel fuel. I finally broke down and ordered this electric version after reading the reviews. The problem with the flame pots is the inconsistancy you get in the heating of the oil/broth or water(for chocolate/cheese fondue). It was either too hot or not hot enough; not to mention the worries with the flame. It would take us all night to get through our meal. This electric pot is FANTASTIC. We used it Christmas Eve to make both cheese fondue and oil for beef and chicken. The responsiveness of the heat was amazing and made the experience much more relaxed and enjoyable. I also like the ability to heat the water/oil directly in the pot rather than preheating it on the stove and then having to transfer into the fondue pot. We will fondue more than once a year with this one. I will most likely buy another one so we can fondue with more than four people at a time. The magnetic attachment of the cord did not cause us any problems.Customer Review: Great multi-tasker fondue pot
Summary: 5 Stars
My budget for the fondue pot was on the lower side, and this fondue pot fits my budget with greatest quality.
1. The pot separates from the heating unit: multi tasking possible for both - pot for butter melting, heating unit for keeping your tea hot
2. Comes with separate ceramic insert that also can be separated from the stainless steel pot: you can do cheese/chocolate fondue properly as well as do your broth fondue
I don't know about you, but because my kitchen top is limited with all the kitchen gadgets -mixer, blender, toaster oven...- so I like multi-taskers like this. It definitely beats the Cuisineart Fondue pot that I was comparing this product with. The Cusineart Fondue pot is made of stainless steel with some insulation, which is nice, but the pot is attached to the heating unit. So you can use a stainless fondue pot, period.
It also delivers the promised heat, safty release of the cord, temparature control, and all others.
Customer Review: Practical
Summary: 5 Stars
I wanted a fondue pot but didn't want to mess with candles and fuel and such. At first I was concerned that the heating element would not be strong enough but, after 2 years of use, I can tell you it is the most practical and comfortable pot ever made. It is extremely easy to regulate the temperature with an electric heating element and the pot is big enough for 2 or 3 people. I like the added versatility of the heating element since I can make 2 types of fondue in one night with one pot. Broth comes to a boil quickly when preheated on the stove top and oil gets hot in minutes without the need to preheat. If you have a big family or want to feed a lot of people then you may want a bigger pot or more than one, for 2 to 3 people it is perfect.