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Anyone got one? Where did you get it from? Looking for a good one for the missus, under £100 preferrably, she used one at a mates house and was well impressed!
Anyone even know what I'm talking about? It's a hot plate with a grill underneath that becomes the centrepiece of a dinner table, people cook their own food on the plate and heat cheese up underneath with the grill...
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Anyone even know what I'm talking about? It's a hot plate with a grill underneath that becomes the centrepiece of a dinner table, people cook their own food on the plate and heat cheese up underneath with the grill...
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We have one of these: http://www.johnlewis.com/230223655/Product.aspx?so...
It's cheap and does the job but obviously isn't anything special.
It's cheap and does the job but obviously isn't anything special.
I suppose you must be talking about something like this:
Although Raclette is really a type of cheese and the traditional way was to hold it in front of an open fire and scrape off the melted cheese onto a plate to eat with other mountain fare:
Actually, it can be quite nice after a hard day's skiing, but you wouldn't want to eat it every day...
Although Raclette is really a type of cheese and the traditional way was to hold it in front of an open fire and scrape off the melted cheese onto a plate to eat with other mountain fare:
Actually, it can be quite nice after a hard day's skiing, but you wouldn't want to eat it every day...
I got a cheap and cheerful raclette/hotrock combo machine, cost about £15 and its awesome, picked mine up in lidl, been used dozens of times and good as new.
Its not the style where you stick a 1/2 wheel of cheese on, there are little trays you pop under a grill. on top is a non-stick faux hot rock thing for grilling bits of meat at the table.
The real challenge is finding raclette cheese, I've only ever been able to buy it in france.
we just use a selection of other stinky cheeses that work ok! gouda (spelling?) works well.
ETA out machine in similar to the pic fast freddy posted.
I've had ones like this when in france, IMO the grill style is better....
Its not the style where you stick a 1/2 wheel of cheese on, there are little trays you pop under a grill. on top is a non-stick faux hot rock thing for grilling bits of meat at the table.
The real challenge is finding raclette cheese, I've only ever been able to buy it in france.
we just use a selection of other stinky cheeses that work ok! gouda (spelling?) works well.
ETA out machine in similar to the pic fast freddy posted.
I've had ones like this when in france, IMO the grill style is better....
Edited by davido140 on Thursday 12th June 23:09
There's somethign I love about French mountain (Savoyard) cooking on ski-ing holidays - Raclette (barbequed cheese), Tartiflette (potato in cheese sauce), Fondue cheese or meat varieties and also Pierade (strips of meat cooked on a hot stone), all with loverly salty french chips. However I'm sure the magic will be gone if I tried it at home.
http://www.cafe-raclette.com/Product.asp?Product=P...
Bought her this bad boy in the end, should be here tomorrow
Bought her this bad boy in the end, should be here tomorrow
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