It’s time to break out that fondue pot that has been sitting in your cupboard. You can make this copycat version of The Melting Pot’s Cheddar Cheese Fondue.
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The Melting Pot Fondue Dinner
The Melting Pot is a favorite place to enjoy dinner – a dark room, a nice bottle of wine, melted cheese, and hopefully, you are with someone special.
If you have never been to The Melting Pot, imagine a three-course meal with fondue for each course! Imagine cheese basking over your favorite bread, crisp green apples, and more.
What makes this Cheddar cheese fondue so memorable? Sometimes enjoying dinner is especially fun when you get to use your hands.
If you are new to fondue it is the ultimate cheese dip. It’s gooey and goes well with French bread, a Baguette, or even some fruit.
Cheddar Cheese Fondue is the Best Tasting Fondue!
This Melting Pot Cheddar cheese fondue is made with medium-aged cheddar and Emmentaler Swiss cheeses, lager beer, and garlic. You can serve it with lots of bread.
I recommend pumpernickel, wheat, or sourdough. I also love this with green apples. You can be creative with this dish, so serve it with bread or vegetables that you enjoy.
What Makes The Melting Pot Cheddar Cheese Fondue So Good
This fondue recipe has a sophisticated flavor due to the beer and Worcestershire sauce! It doesn’t taste bland or like it’s just melted cheese because there is so much more to it.
It also has an incredibly velvety texture, perfect for dipping. Sometimes, with other fondue recipes, the fondue might end up overly stringy or lumpy, but this one is perfectly smooth.
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
This is an affordable way to enjoy your favorite cheesy dish, whether you want to eat it as a snack, appetizer, or turn it into a full-on dinner with multiple courses like at the restaurant. Indulge in the delicious flavors of The Melting Pot without stepping out of your home or breaking the bank with this recipe!
By following the simple instructions, you can recreate the exquisite taste of the Melting Pot’s beloved cheddar fondue and enjoy a wonderful dining experience in the comfort of your kitchen.
Ingredients
Here’s a list of what you need:
- Coors Light beer
- Garlic
- Dry mustard powder
- Worcestershire sauce
- Medium-sharp cheddar cheese
- Emmentaler Swiss cheese
- Cornstarch
If you do not wish to make this with beer, I cannot give you a suggestion for the beer other than a product like O’Doul’s or a near beer with less than 3.2 percent alcohol. The beer flavor adds a lot to this dish.
How to Make Cheddar Cheese Fondue
- Shred cheese or slice it into small cubes. Coat the cheese with cornstarch.
- Place beer, garlic, dry mustard, and Worcestershire in the pot and combine well.
- When the beer mixture is warm, add one-third of the cheese and whisk very well until the cheese is melted and incorporated.
- Continue to whisk in the cheese until it is all incorporated.
Recipe Notes
Please do not serve this beer cheese fondue to people who do not drink alcohol. The alcohol doesn’t fully cook out of the food.
You must eat this dish in one sitting as it doesn’t reheat well, nor does it do well if you make it in advance to eat later. So this is the fun type of dish you want to make on the spot.
Recommended Equipment
A fondue pot is a prominent centerpiece for your table. While you don’t need a fondue pot to make fondue, making fondue with an electric fondue pot is a breeze. I recommend the Cuisinart CFO-3SS Electric Fondue Maker
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Making Melting Pot Cheddar Cheese Fondue
Don’t miss out on this book by the Melting Pot restaurant. They have the recipes for many of their special dishes in their book Dip Into Something Different: A Collection of Recipes from Our Fondue Pot to Yours
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What You Can Dip Into Fondue
The options are endless when choosing what to dip in the cheese fondue! Some ingredients you can find at The Melting Pot include roasted potatoes, fresh apples, grapes, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, and other seasonal produce. Of course, classic dippers like crackers, chips, pretzels, and bread pieces are delicious.
But, if you are making it a meal, consider adding more satisfying components to dip, too. For example, you can also dunk salami, smoked sausage, ham cubes, shrimp, bacon-wrapped chicken, and other types of protein! Use anything that you enjoy with cheese on it.
What To Serve With Fondue
Some copycat Wing Stop parmesan chicken wings would be great to enjoy with the fondue. The silky cheese perfectly pairs with the crispy chicken.
You can also serve the fondue and its accompaniments with a nice salad, beer battered fried shrimp, or meatballs to make your meal heartier.
So enjoy one of my favorite romantic meals to share with someone. Or break out that fondue set, and have a fun Fondue party!
Do you love fondue? Try these delicious recipes!
Favorite Dip Recipes
- Beer Dip
- Chili’s Queso Dip
- Chili Cheese Dip
- Clam Dip
- Green Goddess Dip
- Jarlsberg Cheese
- Lasagna Dip
- Mexican Queso Dip
- Rotel Dip with Ground Beef
- Taco Dip
Check out more of my easy dip recipes and the best New Year’s Eve recipes here on CopyKat!
Melting Pot Cheddar Cheese Fondue
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Coors Light beer
- 2 teaspoons chopped garlic
- 1 teaspoon dry mustard powder
- 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
- 6 ounces medium-sharp cheddar cheese
- 2 ounces Emmentaler Swiss cheese
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch or all-purpose flour
Instructions
Preparing the cheese
- Shred the cheeses or slice into small cubes. Coat the cheese with cornstarch.
Preparing the Fondue
- Turn on the fondue pot to high heat.
- Place beer, garlic, dry mustard, and Worcestershire in the pot and combine well.
- When the beer mixture is warm, add one-third of the cheese and whisk very well.
- Once the cheese has been incorporated well, continue to whisk in the cheese until it is all incorporated. Whisk until the cheese is smooth.
Debbie Crain
I just thought I would point out that Melting Pot has released a cook book of their recipes, which is available just about anywhere (amazon, Walmart.com, Barnes and Noble). JS
Kelly
Sadly their cookbook doesn’t have the regular cheddar fondue recipe.
Wyntr
Do you also have the Swiss cheese fondue copykat Melting pot recipe?
Stephanie
I do not have this recipe at this time.
Donna
I would also love to have the recipe for the melting pot beer cheese. It’s the bom.
Stephanie
I will keep that in mind!
Ally
This was great. I made in a double boiler and it didn’t get as hot as I would have liked but that’s on me for not using a fondue pot. I didn’t have mustard powder but it seemed fine without. Thanks for a great copy cat!
Shenika
Hi, I just wanted to say that my husband and I have made this fondue at least 5 times already and making it again tonight! I LOVE this recipe and I keep it in my favorites. Thank you so much for this. We love it!
Stephanie
I am so glad you liked the fondue.
Michelle
Hi Kim. So what is your version? My family loves this fondue. Thanks.
Michelle
Stephanie
With all due respect to Kim. I often have found that people who say their recipe is better rarely share their recipes.
Bruce
Amen to this!! 🙂
Kindal
Turned out perfect. Loved it!
Jill
I worked at Melting pot and this is not recipe….they have their own cheddar blend. There’s no flour at all in the recipe either 🙂 cheese is dusted with corn starch. It’s beer, garlic, dry mustard, worstershire and black pepper.
Phoebe Lostroh
I love the recipe but I hate trying to clean my fondue pot. I can’t scrub it with anything that might scratch it, and so it takes days and days to scrape the dried on cheese fondue out with fingers/fingernails. I have tried to solubilize the cheese with soap and oil and that helps a bit but still….this is why I wonder about making the fondue on the stove and transferring to a crackpot, which can be seriously scrubbed in order to clean it.
How do you clean your electric fondue pot? I have a nice model made by Cuisinart.
Thanks everybody for any suggestions.
Stephanie
We have the same model. I just put water into the dirty pot, turn it on, and it releases everything around the sides. No scrubbing needed.
Kat
My tip is to cut a clove of garlic in half and rub the pot (regardless of what kind you use) all over. Rub any spot that might come into contact with the cheese. After you’re done enjoying the fondue, soak it for a few minutes and clean as you typically would. Since I started doing this I have never once had to scrub a pot post-fondue or clean a pot more than once. Works like a charm. Hope this helps!
Jay
We use a bowl with water in the fondue pot to make a double broiler….
Ivy
Just made this recipe today. We frequent The Melting Pot and this recipe tasted exactly like theirs! It was DELICIOUS!!! My husband and kids agreed. Will probably just use a little less mustard next time. Thanks for this recipe …it was truly a hit!
Stephanie
I am so happy you enjoyed this recipe.
Stephanie
I am glad this recipe worked out well for you.
Sandra
Fill you pot with hot or warm water, add a dryer fabric sheet, push to bottom of pot. Let soak for at least 15 minutes. Cheese should rinse out.
Donna Craven
Put pot in sink with warm water and an unused dryer sheet, let sit overnight, next morning just dump out and wash with dish soap and water!
Heather Smalley
soak a dryer sheet in it with water up to the brim overnight then it will wipe out in the morning
Sel
I am making this tonight.
Bonnie
Thanks for the recipe! Excited to try it out this evening!
Stephanie Manley @CopyKat.com
I hope you enjoyed it as much as I have.
alexandria
Very excited to try this out tomorrow.
Elicia
The alcohol cooks out of the cheese, it’s not like you’re going to get drunk from eating it…
Emily
I was thinking that. It it didn’t cook out them they would not be able to legally serve it to minors in their restaurants.
Danielle
Of course your not going to get drunk. But to be honest, I know many recovering alcoholics. I used to work at a clinic. Trust me if there is a hint of a taste of alcohol is can cause a person to relapse. This was actually quite thoughtful of the author to put that in.
ex mp server
fyi… all melting pot cheeses has cornstarch added to it during prep time.
Christina Alexandra
Has anyone doubled it?
stephaniemanley
It works ok to double it.
Sherry
I thought this was pretty close, but I found the mustard to be overpowering. I plan to cut the amount of mustard in half. Other tips/suggestions: let bread get slightly stale… cut in sluces and let sit for 10-15 minutes before cubing it. If you don’t have a fondue pot… a double boiler is great and keeps it hot on the table. As for the swiss cheese… could not find that high-end swiss… so we used finlandia deli slices… awesome. And Beer… well use whatever you have in the house… we had leftover Amberboch from when my mother-in-law visited!
Theresa Miller Teresi
Can this be made in advance and reheated? If so would a crockpot work for reheating?
stephaniemanley
So I don’t think this would reheat well, but this is my own personal opinion and I have no experience for this. I would prepare this in a double boiler, and then keep it on low in a crock pot. Fondues while not difficult, can be tricky to reheat.
Brad Barth
i did a double recipe thinking the two of us would eat it all. we didn’t so two days later i reheated in my double boiler. had to add aboutt 2 oz of beer to thin but it works but using db it thickened rather quickly even with hot water below but we enjoyed it a second time
Thanks
chocolate next
Stephanie
I didn’t know this would reheat. I am glad it worked out well for you!
Wolfsbane
Definitely not. The cheese really hardens when it cools after it’s been melted.
stephaniemanley
Thank you for your opinion.
Rachel
Tried this and I don’t know if I did something wrong but it was honestly awful!
Stephanie
Well, this isn’t descriptive, other than it being awful. What did you do? Did you use a fondue pot? Were you able to get the cheese to melt properly? Did you not like the beer?
Not sure what happened that went wrong.
stephaniemanley
Can you be more specific about what you didn’t like?
Melanie
I just made this for the first time last night and doubled the ingredients. I needed a little more cheese, about a 1/2 cup more, and it turned out great!! My hubby and my mom loved it!!
I used the fondue to make a chili con queso similar to a Mexican restaurant in Indianapolis. Next time, I’ll try less beer and add some broth because my son didn’t like the beer taste. Thanks for the recipe Stephanie!!