PrintNacho Cheese Fountain
Never before had I seen anything so marvelous that involve melted cheese product until the the nacho cheese fountain graced my monitor. DJ Grocery, creator of the mind-blowing General Tso's Philly cheesesteak, couldn't resist the temptation to fill his wife's chocolate fountain machine with cheese. I hear ya, man...I hear ya.
It turns out cheese fountains are acceptable alternatives to chocolate fountains, along with barbecue sauce fountains and egg nog fountains. However, I'd rather believe that the ideas behind these non-chocolate fountains come about because while staring quizzically at the ornamental food display contraption someone thinks, "Well, I'm gonna fill this with [insert questionable liquifiable food product], and no one's going to stop me."
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11 Comments:
While I applaud folks who make the best of the appliances they have, I think these fountain things are disgusting. What food benefits from being continually heated and circulated around, exposed to air and then mixed back together with whatever has landed in it.
cybele at 2:11PM on 02/10/08
So. CHUNKY.
I know I shouldn't judge food by how it looks (especially cheesy stuff) but that just looks kinda gross.
AllenW at 3:57PM on 02/10/08
I rebuff the detractors and say that nacho cheese looks absolutely delicious. Who else is going to have such a magnificent center piece at your next party?
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Red_Icculus at 6:05PM on 02/10/08
Damn! This would've been great for the Super Bowl... or for any time you want to distract large groups of men!
play-with-food at 6:37PM on 02/10/08
I have a chocolate fountain and I don't think mine could handle those chunks. If the chocolate even has a little chunkiness it breaks down. Also, one gross thing you might not know about these fountains is that to make chocolate liquid enough to cycle through, you have to add... a whole bunch of vegetable oil to it. You can't taste it for some reason, but the fountain won't work without it and it's all over the instructions and stuff. I've now become a bigger fan of a drink fountain because you don't have to add in stuff and they don't break down as much.
karenita at 8:05PM on 02/10/08
I've made this fountain twice, learning a lesson or two each time. The hardest thing was trying to keep the cheese hot enough. The element couldn't keep up with the cooling action of the "waterfall". I've been trying to perfect a recipe that can be used without thinning it out too much. Holler at my blog for updates.
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MF Grocery at 8:31PM on 02/10/08
We have a Sephra home fountain, which comes with a viscosity funnel for testing anything you might create on your own. Their web site has notes for nacho cheese, along with some other interesting things (like caramel for your fountain).
LunaPierCook at 9:44PM on 02/10/08
I find this equally gross and awesome. And I'd like to propose a toast to the dreamers of the world!
Kerosena at 10:16AM on 02/11/08
The picture of that Nacho Cheese Fountain just wrecked my appetite, and I love nachos!
russban at 11:52AM on 02/11/08
nacho cheese in a chocolate fountain? genius!!!
redhead at 6:27PM on 02/11/08
I do not know how I feel about this. I know that cheese melts, but that is flowing a little too smoothly for my taste.
sophia kitchencaravan at 10:58AM on 02/14/08