Dinghy
Veteran Member
After reading about cooking in a fondue pot, I went on the prowl in the thrift stores. I couldn't find an actual fondue pot, but I found a coffee carafe thingy that I decided to try out. It had a really nice silver plated stand with the candle holder, and a glass coffee pot that fit down in the stand. I filled the pot with cool water and put a lit tea light candle in the holder. After 3 hours it was just barely hot enough for hot chocolate that could be drank right away. Definitely not enough to ever really heat any food. I thought maybe it would be a way to warm soups and things already cooked. I'm sure it would have gotten hotter if I used Sterno, but that's awful pricey to be buying a lot of. I have 3 bags of tea lights now. Have any of you actually tried to use a fondue pot to cook in? I've seen recipes for meat fondue, where the meat is cooked in oil in the pot. That would have to get pretty hot. I'm thinking that maybe the candle is closer to the bottom of the fondue pot than it is to the coffee pot in this thing. Or maybe it takes Sterno for that too. I've seen pots that take one or the other, but don't know enough about them to want to buy one yet after this experiment failing! Guess I might be back to trying to find a way to cook with the gas fireplace. We have a grill and a Coleman stove, but I was looking for something else to use that didn't have to have fuel stored for it.