I used to have a fondue pot.. I got rid of it. We never used it. My husband doesn't like cheese and I never used it for anything else... it was reddish orange lol

Now, now, young lady - watch out for excessive fluttering - it leads to all sorts of fondue-related accidents! Well known fact.

I've never done a fondue myself but we used to be invited over for dinner regularly in Cape Breton with a couple who loved fondues. I remember there was a cheese one and, even better, a chocolate dessert one once. Bits of strawberries and cake to dip. Yummmmmmmmmm...

I do own two unused fondue sets, though. I even have the fuel. They're for emergency power outages. During the big Ice Storm in Quebec, I remember reading that a woman kept herself and her neighbour fed during the 2 weeks on a pot of "stew" she kept bubbling on the fondue. She just kept adding everything that was melting in her freezer but every spice she could find.

Not in the account I read - it was an interesting book full of anecdotes about surviving under emergency conditions during the storm. This woman's neighbour - whom she took into her house to look after - was also 80 years old. So they must be rather hardy in that part of Canada.

I haven't had fondue in ages!! Way cool! :)