Fond Du Lac Fondue Festival Countdown

Only 2 days remain until Fondue Festival, the city of Fond Du Lac's bold effort to make history and the Guinness Book of World Records.

If you live in the Upper Midwest, you may be pondering what to do this weekend. Go to Wisconsin! You'll be glad you did.

There'll be bike rides, and pony rides, and a rock-climbing wall. There'll be bands, and trampolines, and face painting.

And, of course, the raison d'etre of the whole event: The World's Biggest Fondue.

The cheesemakers Roth Kase are donating something like a ton of cheese, which will be melted in a stainless steel kettle donated by Brenner Tank. The pot is capable of holding 2,500 pounds of fondue.

The recipe comes from The Melting Pot, a chain of fondue restaurants whose HQ is in Appleton, Wis. I'm not sure exactly what the proportions are, but it's something like this:

1 TON of cheese
3 VATS of white wine
1,522 dashes of Kirsch

Melt the cheese and wine together in an enormous pot, until it becomes a piping-hot mess of yummy cheesey goo. Cook until the the fondue looks like something a villain in Batman would use as a murder weapon -- Holy Fon-death, Batman!

Meanwhile, chop all the bread in Wisconsin into bite size cubes. Attach the bread cubes onto three-foot skewers, and let everybody in Fond Du Lac start dipping.

The Fondue Festival takes place in downtown Fond Du Lac on Saturday, September 8. Get there early. They start serving up the fondue at 11 a.m.

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