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Where can you buy fondue ingredients? Looking mostly for the broth and also cheese, and oil. Tks!

We did try that in the past but wanted to try a premade one this time

President's Choice has a Swiss/Gruyere blend for fondue. Can't say I know of any pre-made broth or oils. You're probably better off searching the Internet for some recipes.

1 garlic clove, halved  
1 pound Gruyère cheese, grated  
1/2 pound Emmentaler cheese or other Swiss cheese, grated  
1 cup dry white wine  
1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon cornstarch  
1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice  
1 1/2 tablespoons kirsch  
Freshly ground pepper  
Freshly grated nutmeg  
 
You can find the cheese at Safeway or Sobeys, Superstore sometimes.

We did a fair bit of fondue cooking a few years back, never was a fan of cooking the food in a broth, did enjoy foods cooked on peanut oil, or fruit dipped in chocolate. I always liked to cook the food in the fondue pot and worry about getting it flavoured after.  
For shrimp we usually just went for a bought seafood sauce, simple and tasty. As for vegetables usually went with a simple white sauce that we added cheddar cheese to till it suited our taste, beef was a homemade dip of ketchup, brown sugar, liquid smoke and Tabasco sauce, not going to give the amounts. Potatoe cubes the simplest one would be sour cream with a liberal amount of black pepper. The beef dip works well with chicken as well.  
Buy yourself a candy thermometer, and always keep the temperature of your oil above 375, and remember that if you get to much food in the pot it will lower the temperature real quick, which can really affect the cooking of whatever is in the pot.  
If you have a few things around the kitchen like soy sauce, sweet and sour sauce, and maybe oyster sauce, red wine vinagar, you can experiment with small amounts of these to make a tasty dip for cooked beef.  
I better get back to work but choices are unlimited, just think of what goes good with a certain food and work from there.  
Should also add if you are cooking escargot they can pop while cooking which splatters oil, they are tasty with a butter lemon and garlic dip then rolled in cheese.  
 
Edited by don brown, 2018-02-08 10:19:56

A while back, at Co-Op deli, I saw there was a container that said fondue cheese. Looked like it was all made ready to use.

Gives us some ideas, thanks everyone

I’ve had a cheese one from co-op and it’s fabulous!

Has the best packaged cheese fondue mix... so good

Allie Cat said "I've used regular Campbell's beef broths before. Never used oil as I hated the smell of it through the house. "

We went to a fondue restaurant in Banff a few years ago. Luckily, the hotel room we were in had a washer and dryer as we smelled like a deep fryer when we came out lol. The restaurant was great, though.

Hank from Corner Gas comes to mind with his Fondue kit... the Chocolate Fondue... 'You can't even taste the cheese"