Fondue Pots Recalled [Reprisals of the French begin]

AP ^ | March 13, 2003 | Associated Press

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(AP) (WASHINGTON) A cookware company is recalling about 45,000 fondue pots because they can melt and crack while heating, posing burn and fire hazards to consumers.

Trudeau Corp., of Woodridge, Ill., has received 13 reports of plastic handles breaking or melting and six reports of burn injuries to hands, feet and other body parts, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said Thursday.

The recalled fondue pots, sold under the brand name Trudeau as part of a 17-piece set, are brushed stainless steel and have model number 082-384 on the box. The fondue sets were sold at Bed, Bath and Beyond stores nationwide from August 2001 to July 2002 for about $20.

Consumers can contact the company at 1-877-659-4844 to receive a replacement fondue pot.

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I hope we can do better than this.

[Uncle George]

How about sending back all shipments of "French Tickelers" from now on. English tickelers work just as well.

[Charles Henrickson]

EAST TIMOR-- Members of the isolated
Fondue Fork Cult gather for their annual
"Lighting of the Sterno" ceremony.

[Nitro]

The word is French, but...

fondue was invented by the Swiss!

[ijcr]

It must have been a terrible existence in the Alps before TV.

Men could tell tales about an archer shooting an apple of his sons head or yodel or drag an enormous horn up a mountain and blow a monochromatic scale. Until that fateful day when the world changed and those dramatic earth shattering Swiss words rang out, " Look! Honey, you can melt cheese in this little pot, if you stick a candle under it."

[Nitro]

Actually, I was watching the Food Network and they explained that during the Crusades the mainstay of the troops was bread and it would become stale. So one guy figured out that if he used his cheese and a little wine he could create a sauce that would re-fresh the bread or at least make it edible!!

All learning is knowledge and therefore good!!