Last night was fun!

First batch of fondue I added cheddar... not a good thing, turned into a sort of cheese ball that people were having to poke and prod apart with their veggies (way too hard for use with bread). Second batch was just about right, stuck to the recipe and it had what I think was just about a perfect consistency.

The chocolate fondue, of course, worked perfectly (it's pretty straightforward stuff, just melt (dark) chocolate bars by putting boiling water in the bottom of the copper pot). We ran entirely out of fruit for it, going through the two extra pineapples someone brought along as well as the entire set of fruit we'd bought (we wound up buying fruit twice, as the first was variously rotten and underripe).