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a wheel of cheese set on fire so you can scrape its molten guts onto potatoes
means A Swiss dish (and the cow's-milk cheese it's made from) in which the cut face of a cheese is heated until it melts, then scraped onto boiled potatoes, pickles, and cured meats.
from From the French verb 'racler,' meaning 'to scrape' — itself rooted in an Old Provençal word related to 'rasclar,' a cousin of the Latin 'rasus' (scraped, shaved), which also gives us 'rascal' and 'razor.' The cheese is literally named for the action of scraping its melted edge, an Alpine herders' habit of warming cheese by the fire before dragging the soft part off with a knife.
- name origin
- From French racler, meaning to scrape
- alpine staple
- Swiss and Savoyard herders melted it over open fires
- the cheese
- Both the dish and the cheese share the name
- classic sidekicks
- Potatoes, pickles, pickled onions, cured meats
- melt math
- One wheel feeds a whole table, scrape by scrape
valais raclette — protected designation of origin cheese from valais, switzerland, with aoc status since 1985
raclette day festival — annual february celebration in bagnes, switzerland where thousands gather to eat raclette together