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!

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

3:21 That woman is overweight.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 😂

verzell nöd so en hafechääs.

Usually bacon and various meat are included

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.

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

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

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

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

​@@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.

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.

@@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.