Raclette in Switzerland - eating cheese for dinner?

We have a racklett grill that we put on the table. There are eight irons on it to melt cheese while grilling (frying) the meat. It's very tasty, to say the least,

I like cheese. But melted cheese, no thanks!
I never think of Switzerland as a food country as I do with France and Italy, for example.

I think I've written about raclette before. Here in France you have a large hot iron in the centre of the table and the potatoes are kept warm on top. Each person heats a piece of cheese in their own spatula underneath. They serve a variety of cold cuts and sausages, including salami, plus cornichons and olives. There are special ready-made raclette packs in the shops with slices of cheese - and it is important that they are raclette cheese - and different types of cold cuts. You don't add the amount you were given, just some of the melted cheese on the potatoes. If you can't find raclette cheese in Sweden, Svarta Sara and Gamle Ole are the closest in flavour. Lisa's recipe sounds delicious but has very little to do with the original raclette. It's nice to have picked food around the table anyway. Great film Peter!

Last time we were in the East (Basel) I had a rather mediocre risotto for the bargain price of €40...hrmmph! Weekend, everything was closed except one of the city's art galleries with a restaurant. Didn't give me much of a taste, so to speak....

We often eat raclette and pour the cheese over boiled delicatessen potatoes. We like to add shredded beef, pickled onion and cucumber, of course, and vegetables as available (squash, peppers, etc.) We also cheat and use cheaper gouda cheese that works just as well. A little more flavour and you can add some Roquefort cheese. Yummy?

I love cheese but have never had raclette, curious of course. But I suspect it will be a very "fatty flavour" as melted cheese tends to be perceived. I don't think my stomach could handle a dinner consisting only of cheese. Would probably also have mixed it up with a lot of other little things.

I've only travelled through Switzerland, we stopped in Geneva but that's about it. It's beautiful anyway.

Cheese is good in all forms, but I haven't tried raclette yet.

I/we actually have a raclette iron 🙂 though we have never used it 😉 .
it's like the fondue pot 😉 took a couple of years before we tried it for the first time 😀.
Melted cheese is not really good... I believe in some kind of "picking food a'la tacos" 😉 think Lisa in the village & Kors och Tvärs seems to run a bit that style 🙂

I've probably never even thought about food in Switzerland, or I've mostly thought about cheese and red wine 😀.

The experience I remember most about Swiss food is the result: constipation.

Otherwise, if you want to try cheese fondue one evening here in Stockholm, I'm happy to offer it to you. I have made cheese fondue many times at home. 🙂

Oh! I love raclette! We got a raclette iron as a wedding present and used it extensively for many years. We even took it to Spain (not many kitchen gadgets get that honour...).
Now, unfortunately, it has been cancelled...

You will understand that we also have and eat raclette, Swiss people without a raclette iron are hardly compatible.
I understand if you think there was a lot of cheese. We usually have different vegetables and pickles with pickled onions, usually smoked ham. Raclette cheese, preferably flavoured with green pepper/paprika or garlic. Unfortunately, the flavoured raclette cheese is not available here at home, or at least we have not found it. So we buy it with us home.
Put the cheese in the small pan and when the cheese has started to melt, add a vegetable/ham and let it melt together. The potatoes stand on top of the iron that Monet told us about.
I think many people eat this dish too quickly. Fast fast and it becomes a big cheese ball in the stomach. We sit for several hours and eat this. A party dish You will be full in any case.
It's important to take that little snap afterwards, the food distributor. Otherwise Ajaj in the stomach?
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I love cheese in all its forms, but I'm probably just as sceptical as you are, cheese for dinner as a main course....no!:P But I'll definitely try it when I go back to Switzerland sometime:).