You know you’re in Switzerland when your dishwasher has a fondue/raclette mode!

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  1. Do put your caquelon into the dishwasher though? I always assumed it is bad for the enamel and hand washed it.

  2. yes please i want to come back to Switzerland as soon as possible please send me my travelling documents or you let me know when I can go to swiss embassy in Senegal.

  3. The most annoying step when washing a caquelon is removing the layer of cheese, after having it soaked in cold water for a night. Surely you don’t put the caquelon in the dishwasher with all the cheese that is left? The filter would be gross pretty fast.

    As I’m writing this, I have a caquelon in the sink, waiting for me to wash it. Ugh.

  4. You know you’re in Switzerland when the dishwasher needs a special setting to do it’s job.

    Just got a new one, and it’s appalingly ineffective compared to the old one.

  5. I’m more confused about the electricity and water levels indicator. Is have assumed they’re hard wired and plumbed in.

  6. You know you’re in Switzerland when your washing machine has a 55cm swiss kitchen standard so they can charge you 2-3x the price of a EU standard 60 cm one.

  7. I don’t live in Switzerland anymore, but each time it snows in my current year-round warm climate location I make raclette. Usually we get 3 snow events (ice counts), but this year we got zero. I hope this isn’t a trend because I can’t eat raclette every time it rains here.

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