Lucas Jensen, senior manager of company-operated locations, and Gabi Picinic, general manager, both of 'The Melting Pot,' joined Cheddar News to demonstrate how to go about a chocolate fondue at home, explaining the process and ingredients needed to do so.

<div class="block">Lucas Jensen, senior manager of company-operated locations, and Gabi Picinic, general manager, both of &#39;The Melting Pot,&#39; joined Cheddar News to demonstrate how to go about a chocolate fondue at home, explaining the process and ingredients needed to do so.</div>

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Celebrating International Chocolate Day With Fondue

Did you know today's International Chocolate Day and we're gonna celebrate, we are going to dip into a chocolate dessert. That's a lot of fun. We're talking about chocolate fondue today. I'm joined by Lucas Jensen and Gabby from the melting pot. Guys. Welcome. Thank you for coming on and bringing this beautiful chocolate spread with you. Thank you for having us. Of course, I'm gonna start with you. What's the proper way to go about a chocolate fondue at home? A proper food fondue? Excuse me. Um Well, first you're gonna make sure you have a pot pot water. You're gonna get the right chocolate. And what we do at melting pot is we partner with Trace and we resource the chocolate for the proper fermentation. Oh, yes, sorry. Go ahead. Gay. Can you start the demonstration? Yes. Uh So we have, I picked out two of my favorites. OK, like a, a butter flavored white chocolate. Um We melted with uh five strawberry uh five of bananas. We put the latte in there. OK? We already put the 151 rum in there. We do the, the flam flam at the at the restaurant in front of the guest. And then for um for uh a show when they do like a birthday presentation and kind of we put like a cinnamon and it's like a nice presentation from the, from the flaming It. I am curious what are the best types of chocolate for melting when it comes to Fondue? II, I do believe it's uh it's the milk chocolate, milk chocolate. It's, it's, it's the better the Yeah. And I have to ask you what's the best? What you, what's the best things or items or fruits that you should be dipping into your chocolate fond fruits. It's strawberries, strawberries and fresh banana. And I say rice crispies and everything. Waffles. Yeah. So we have strawberries and bananas that we serve at every chocolate dipper plate and every table. And then we also have an assortment of rice crispy treats. Uh Oreo crusted marshmallows waffles, pound cake, blondies, brownies, guys, I have to tell you as delicious as this looks fondue can be a little intimidating. So for newcomers who are doing it at home themselves, any beginner tips, beginner tips dive in, you know, just take the fully covered. So what are some benefits of doing chocolate fondue as opposed to, I don't know, just having a chocolate bar at home or some ice cream. It's an experience. Yeah. You know, you get to interact. It's a social interactive experience where you get to have a conversation, you know, engage with the people that you're spending your time with and it's hot and you have all these beautiful dipping ingredients and it's, it's just really like, uh it's a celebration. It's, it's a fun event to do a chocolate fondue. Can I have a taste of something? What do you recommend? And while you do that, you know, your restaurant Melting Pot specialized in fondue. It started in Orlando in 1975. It's a growing franchise. Tell us about that as I taste something. What should I try first? We'll go ahead and grab one of these fondue forks. Ok. Gabby, why don't you lead her through? Ok. You can have the Yeah. And here is your place. So melting Pot started in 1975. As you had mentioned, we have grown to over 90 locations in 30 states in Canada. Wow, we have a family of 60 franchisees, uh some single unit, some multi unit owners and they partner with us to just bring an experience to the table. What's the favorite part when people come in typically? What do they usually order? It's chocolate is definitely the hero, but it's like chocolate strawberries or well, chocolate covered strawberries is definitely one of our heroes as well. And if people would like to go sign up at our club fondue, which can be found, found at Melting Pot dot com, uh They will get six free chocolate covered strawberries when they sign up and for and you know, for people who want some of this equipment, you were telling me all this is available at the store. It is all available at the store. Everything that you see on the table here, I'm gonna bring her Kristen Scher and Kristen. Are you watching this? Are you a chocolate lover? This looks so good. I was interested to hear that. They said milk chocolate, milk chocolate is the best, the better of the two, I guess versus dark chocolate. Uh white chocolate sounds delicious. And I have to admit chocolate covered strawberries is like my favorite treat ever. And so I'm salivating over those from afar. How does it taste? I was gonna taste the chocolate strawberry myself just now. Kristen. Have you ever done a chocolate fondue before? I've done a chocolate fondue. Um I think there's a at a place near You Square. It wasn't the melting pot, but let me tell you something. I would definitely do it again. And you guys also have a cookbook. What are some of the more popular recipes that you like in your cookbook? Well, aside from chocolate, we also have an assortment of cheese fondue. That's our, that's our other hero. They go side by side, people come in for cheese and they come in for chocolate and but then we also do fresh cooked uh entrees at the table as well and some assorted salads and very quickly if people want to get their hands on all this beautiful stuff. What do they do? They come to melting pot in Red Bank? All right, there you go. You heard it here guys. Thanks again to Lucas Jensen Gabriella Pacini for melting pot for joining me in celebrating international Chocolate Day. I'm gonna have some more chocolate Chris. I'm gonna toss it over to you. Thank you, Hannah. Uh Looks so delicious.