Can you do Fondue?

The short answer is YES! Fondue is amazing and delicious and old school comfort food that you share with your favorite friends. Go out for a night of fondue or make it at home...

Gluten Free eaters can safely eat at fondue restaurants, but have to be aware of the food being served. If you have problems with cross contamination, don't go. The pots they use are covered constantly in beer and other glutens. Recently at a fondue dinner I found out that they coat the cheese in flour for it to melt better with the wine or beer and they serve bread for dipping. To fix this, stress the fact that you cannot ingest glutens of any type and remind them for the cheese base to have no added flour or beer. It took longer to mix with the wine and separated since they prepared it wrong in the first place. Politely reminding your fondue server before mixing will help with this. Also, ask for corn tortilla chips and extra fruit/veggies for dipping.

Make sure all your boiling bases are also free of malt vinegars, beer, and thickeners and that the meat is not coated as well. Finally, when enjoying your chocolate course remember that cookie crumbs and crust flavored chocolate are gluten-ous, so go as plain as possible. Sometimes they light a high proof alcohol for effect, this won't affect most g-free eaters. Use strawberries, bananas, marshmallows and avoid the cakes, brownies, and other flour based desserts they serve for chocolate dipping! Most importantly, enjoy the cheese and chocolate indulgence...it's so tasty!



















At home, you have much more say in what you use. Trader Joe's has a non-beer based swiss cheese made just for fondue melting and chocolate chips for the chocolate that are all labeled Gluten Free. Making your own requires clean up, but way less worry about cross contaminations. And it's fun to invite your pals over for dipping!