Raclette Halloween Horror

Years ago, whilst in Switzerland, we purchased un appareil à raclette; a device doomed to be used roughly once a decade. Then chldren came along, and one day I dug it out of the shed, and said: this is fun, why don’t we play with it? The concept attracted them, but unfortunately the appareil à raclette ne marchait pas. Quel dommage, etc. So when I saw another one in a local Lidl store, I just had to buy it.

And it has proven to be a success. We wheeled it out this Halloween evening when one of the sleep-over guests of our 12 year old proved to be a vegetarian.

Pink fir apple potatoes, various items of charcuterie (the vegetarian was outnumbered) peppers, mushrooms, onions, bread, and of course fromage de raclette, gruyère and, as an experiment which worked rather well, mild gorgonzola were mixed up by the assembled company.

Should everyone have one of these things? Probably not.  They are only very slightly post-fondue fork.  Talking of which, that’s something that needs revisiting. Cheese gets to you after a while.