Cheesy Delight: How to Prepare an Authentic Swiss Raclette

[@OhioCentralModeler]

I visited Switzerland about a decade ago, and ended up having traditional raclette with an incredibly generous and welcoming Swiss family. That meal is seared into my mind as one of the absolute best and most memorable of my life.

[@joeyjamison5772]

I'm from Ohio too and we went to Switzerland in 1998. I can still remember the raclette party and me stuffing myself. It was delicious!

[@Donknowww]

We are all Cheese Lovers aren't we?😉👌🏽

[@californiahiker9616]

Thank you! While Fondü has been a regular offering at my California home for ages, I’ve not offered Raclette before. I just bought a Raclette set (the newer kind, not the traditional kind) for family get togethers. I first had raclette at my sister’s house in Germany decades ago. We visited a Fondü et Raclette Restaurant in Paris with Raclette Grills at every table. My grandchildren are of German and Swiss descent mostly so I’d like to introduce them to more of their culinary heritage. Thanks again for this interesting video. Good to see Raclette closer to the way it originated!

[@punitharamakrishnan4000]

Loved raclette. Introduced to it when I was in Switzerland years ago. Unique style of tabletop grilling. Love the country n food!

[@TheAlbinoskunk]

I'm always amazed seeing what Swiss people eat that they all look so lean and healthy. I guess moderation is key

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

3:21 That woman is overweight.

[@trevor_corey8037]

I don’t think I saw more than two fat people when I visited, and they could have been tourists. They have very beautiful towns where you walk all over every day, same as France. I think what Americans see as a phenomenon, is simply getting daily exercise.

[@Bellasie1]

I think it's the quality of the food as well as the car culture. Most food additives in the US are in fact banned elsewhere and especially in Europe, and Europeans only use the car when they have no choice, for longer distances, otherwise they walk.

[@zaram131]

Exactly.. I was there for two weeks and ate so much cheese and delicious food I thought I would have gained 15 pounds. Turns out I didn’t gain anything! We walked and walked and walked and walked. Also carried luggage up and down stairs and on and off of trains. Many of the towns and villages are completely traffic-free, so you have no choice but to walk. And like you mentioned, the food is so much healthier there. No added preservatives and corn syrup and all the junk American food has in it.

[@Mandragara]

Cheese like this is really good for gut health, prebiotics\probiotics etc

[@4and20blackbirdsbakedinapi6]

I went back home to Zurich in October last year, and visited both Raclette Stube restaurants on different nights, since my kids wanted to eat these beloved dishes two nights in a row. The two restaurants are owned by the same people, just in different locations. It is always crowded with tourists. Best to have these meals with the Swiss wine of Fechy, and the after the cheese meals, to drink either schnapps or grappa. Miss our traditions.

[@AussieAdventurer]

I so feel what you mean 🥰

[@ralphjenkins1507]

One of my favorite dishes.

[@TheNewMediaoftheDawn]

Wow, such a great combo with those vegetables…🎉

[@g_lorn]

Usually bacon and various meat are included

[@life-is-so-colourful]

Oh I love raclette and with the traditional way of preparation it's even better. The nice thing using the home version is the creativity with all the stuff you can serve to the taste of nearly everyone. Now I'm getting hungry for RACLETTE 🥰

[@AussieAdventurer]

Growing up in Switzerland but living in the outback of Western Australia now - I so much miss eating Raclette 😋 So much so that we flew from a small country town in Western Australia to Perth to buy all the delicious foods I can only get in the big city - and of course that included a few kilos of authentic Swiss Raclette Cheese- I love that stuff and miss the memories it brings back from when I first eat that on Christmas in 1974 in the Swiss mountains ( obviously we didn’t just fly there for the shopping 😂 but wasn’t going to waste the opportunity to bring back something very special to me 😂) Thanks for introducing me to the Raclette Stube- if I ever get back to Zürich I make sure to stop there 🥰

[@ijkavanagh]

I love your videos. One small translation point. A native English speaker would usually refer to the “rind” of a cheese and not the crust. Coincidentally one might say that heating the cheese forms a crust on top! Keep up with the videos!

[@lilacscentedfushias1852]

We’d know that, but many English speakers wouldn’t, I was telling a neighbour how easy citrus cheesecake is to make. She didn’t know what zest was 🙄 A relative’s workmate didn’t know aubergine was a real vegetable and another was asked at work if they had ‘lemon & limes’ it’s a smaller supermarket so she said “we sell lemons, but we don’t have limes, you’d need a bigger supermarket probably” the customer looked puzzled, he thought it was just one fruit 🙄 I’ve bought lettuce in shops & they’ve tried to weigh it as cabbage, a couple of months ago on the market I saw ‘pointy cabbage’ not ‘sweetheart cabbage’ I looked at the staff and decided it wasn’t worth the effort explaining it to them. They sold *strawberry’s plum’s, raspberry’s* too 😂 They had a severe case of Greengrocer’s disease 😂

[@TheZuriho]

verzell nöd so en hafechääs.

[@lamimi1959]

​@lilacscentedfushias1852 you were just in the wrong town or neighborhood. Don't judge the whole country by a few uninformed.

[@fabiankaisen5977]

We love to eat raclette and fondue on long summer nights outside in the garden, with copious amounts of white wine… melted cheese does not need to be confined to winter.

[@juxbertrand]

you live above the polar circle ??

[@JohnJohansen2]

Great video that shows that I've been wrong all the way. Just now learning how to do it wright.

[@terrytytula]

I can remember watching Heidi as a kid and her grandfather melting cheese in the fireplace and spreading it on bread.

[@arfriedman4577]

Nice video.happy to learn about something I heard of recently.

[@zaram131]

Very interesting! We bought a raclette grill upon returning from Switzerland, but it doesn’t give the raclette the toasty crust like these burners do. I didn’t realize this is the proper way it’s done.

[@lademoiselleketoret6958]

I love it. 😍

[@aihsanasl]

Dear almighty Odin I'm dying here as a cheese lover 😍

[@giogarcia4747]

Hi, what's the name of this particular cheese? The closed captions says "Mayen cheese". If so, which one. Better yet - what's the traditional cheese used for raclette? All I find is a [substitution] which is fine, but am looking for the actual traditional cheese used to make raclette. Any help out there? Thanks in advance!!!

[@lorieast5347]

Are you in the US? There are a couple of places you can buy it, just Google "raclette cheese." You'll pay a premium for it, obvs, plus ship often, but it's well worth it.

[@johnmurphy7674]

The whole world: Wow, so tasty! France: RaClEtTe Is OuRs

[@normacoope8239]

Looks delicious

[@varoonnone7159]

I've lived in France for the last 14 years. We eat it with mushroom, tomates cerises and gherkins but certainly no baby corn

[@WanderlustGoGo]

Ich liebe Raclette nach einem Wandertag❤

[@JohnDoe-vc5qb]

Wouldn't a french-swiss restaurant be a more fitting host for continuity's sake, considering the dish is from that part of the population?

[@sharongibson1161]

Looks delicious ❤

[@Wallstreetavarice]

America saw this and decided that all food needed to be "smothered, loaded, packed and STUFFED WITH CHEEEEEEEEEEEEESE"

[@savvysearch]

I am so hungry now

[@rogermoore27]

Today is the first time i have heard about Raclette. I heard it from a Vietnamese woman

[@georginabenitez284]

Que precio tiene para dos personas?

[@fabeli136]

a real swiss eats a fondue once a week, even in sommer💪🏼

[@hussienalsafi1149]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@Sergioricardoneto]

Queijo, queijo, queijo. Adoro queijo. Abençoado alimento. Uhumm delícia. Novo, curado, ralado, fatiado, derretido.

[@Spo0n7z]

✨The Raclette Stube✨

[@krunaltrivedi2486]

Is it non veg ?

[@g_lorn]

Wo speck und fleisch? 😢

[@didicrow9725]

Kann man, wie vieles anderes, auch dazureichen. Die angegebenen Zutaten sind die Basics. Speck passt sehr gut dazu. Grüsse aus der Schweiz

[@bettysweet9644]

I’m sure it delish, but any melted cheese is wonderful

[@LoyaFrostwind]

🤤🤤🤤

[@juraganfarms]

My lactose intolerance belly is tickling harder 🤣

[@Phaios95]

You‘re lucky! Raclette cheese is an aged cheese and contains almost no lactose.

[@voevodineu]

Now I'm hungry dammit!

[@waza3350]

Where is the meats ?????????????????????????

[@PtolemaicTaweret]

*Edit: I think my initial comment (I left it standing below this edit) was unconstructive and formulated too harshly. Read the replies where I explained my thoughts in more depth. The video is nice and all, but its based on superficial research and full of inaccurate generalizations. It's marketing rather than a historically accurate informational video.

[@qkwnwkw]

Like watching a porno from the early 90's ? 🤔

[@DWFood]

Thank you for your comment. Which parts do you think are incorrect? And where do you you think did we include inaccurate generalizations exactly?

[@PtolemaicTaweret]

​@@DWFood Hello, thanks for asking. First, I have to say I feel like my previous comment was superficial and not constructive at all. I want to apologize for that. I realise that people at DW put a lot of work into these videos and appreciate the content this channel provides! Now, regarding this video the first thing that rubbed me as a swiss the wrong way is that the title says "How to Prepare an Authentic Swiss Raclette" but then the video is centered around a touristy restaurant in Zürich. They are preparing raclette in a nice and not uncommon way, but tabletop grills like the one shown at 0:19 are what a vast majority of swiss people use. Something which I'd argue is a key thing about raclette is further that it's very modifiable. You always need raclette cheese and something to melt it with, but other than that your free to adapt. Potatoes, pickles, pickled baby corn and silverskin onions are very typical, but bacon and canned pineapple extremely common too for example. Depending on the household you might also have fresh or pickled mushrooms, varying types of pickled vegetables, fresh chopped onions, leek and other things. Purists on the other hand might prefer only having cheese and potatoes. Generally people in Switzerland adapt raclette to their taste and that is a key part of raclette-culture here. I feel like the restaurant owner had an interest in presenting his way of serving raclette as the proper or traditional way in order to market his restaurant, when it's just one way of many. Something else is the history of raclette (and fondue as they go hand in hand). Its usually and here again presented as this essential swiss food with a long tradition. But with both fondue and raclette early historical sources prove something like it existed but point to these precursory cheese dishes being consumed only in limited regions in the alpine area (also in neighbouring regions of France, not just Switzerland). I liked the mention of the appearance of raclette grills in the 1950s at 1:09. Only in the postwar period did raclette and fondue begin to spread from the not very populated alpine regions across all of Switzerland, especially the lowlands where most Swiss people lived and still live. This was due in a large part to successful marketing by the Swiss Cheese Union. The fondue and raclette which most Swiss think of as these very traditional and essentially Swiss dishes are in historical terms recent (re)inventions of regional dishes.

[@jbk19xx57]

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[@philipb2134]

But... is it Swiss?

[@paotaitai]

Yes :)

[@everytatti]

Bring back the subtitles and stop with the dubbing. You are ruining your videos.

[@aloisius4188]

Yes, Harshith: One or the other but not both. I can mute the closed captioning, but I can't mute the dubbing. Often the music adds to the auditory confusion.

[@everytatti]

@@aloisius4188 Yes. Moreover, listening to the protagonists speak in their language is an added essential aspect to the video, since the dubbings are always just soulless, whereas the people speaking in their native languages is a great way of conveying emotions like excitement and passion without us even necessarily having to understand the words. Original language audio + subtitles is the best and should be the only way.

[@alexciocca4451]

Not for me

[@Bloomsberrybubble]

No thanks i'll stick with my cheddar egg & ham

[@cmolodiets]

what! No ham is served with it! A disgrace!