Fondoodler A "Hot Glue Gun" for Cheese. Build with It. Write with It. Cook with It., Fiesta and Cheddar

I bought this for my sister for her birthday and she loves it. Some things we've noticed during our time using it.- Packing shredded cheese into it seems to be the best option. It melts easier and works the easiest.- Let the cheese get closer to room temperature. You can use cheese straight from the fridge, but it seemed to work best when the cheese was closer to room temperature. The colder cheese took longer to heat up for use.- Don't touch the metal tip haha. Common sense, but it still happened once to each of us.

Super cute idea, fun for the novelty, very difficult to clean. There’s still cheese hardened on the nozzle from months ago. Ick.

Look no further for a perfect family activity. This is a well built and beautifully designed utensil. The kids couldn't stop decorating Ritz crackers, fruit, and just about anything they could get their hands on. You have to give it a full 3-4 minutes to let the cheese melt in the cylinder, but then, watch out and cover the world with cheese! I'm getting another one, because 2 will more than double the fun. Everyone wanted to get their hands on it at the same time. Hopefully this won't be the beginning of Sunday cheese-wars in the kitchen. We're planning to build a towering cheese/cracker skyscraper 3 feet tall. Gingerbread houses now have a new neighbor! Yum.

I bought this as a gift for my kiddo, but found a new one while browsing through goodwill! I bought that one and since my daughter is at grandmas, I decided to try it out. Here are a few things about it:1. It is fun! My 8 year old is going to love it since she loves cheeses and crackers anyway. She will be able to operate it and mom will take care of loading it/cleaning/supervising.2. String cheese is not the best cheese to use. It is harder to squeeze out even when putting it in at room temp and letting warm up for 4-5 mins.3. Cheddar (I tried the kind that comes in stock form and it was a perfect fit) is really nice and easy to use, but not good for trying to build stuff with pretzels or crackers.4. American cheese (just stuffed torn up singles in the tube) is the best for sticking stuff together. It is the messiest, but also maybe the most fun for budding cracker and cheese architects!5. Cleanup is not a big deal, just soak the tip in some soapy water and the rest washes up easily. Be careful when reloading that the plunger stick doesn’t have cheese on it, or else it will get inside the trigger area.6. Overall, the fondoodler is entertaining. I am glad I have two now, so when my kid gets hers for her birthday in a month, I can bring out the second one and help her to build something. Also good for friends or having two cheeses at once!

My husband is absolutely thrilled with his birthday gift. There's definitely a learning curve with this item, and it's worth experimenting with different cheese types, flavors, shreds, etc. in order to find a good groove. It seems like the more dense the cheese, the longer it takes to heat up, and using refrigerated doesn't work well (so room temp is best).

What a waste of time and energy. I bought this for my husband as a gift. Setup was eaay, but cheese took forever to melt. When I say melt, I mean form into a dry, crusty, cool string. This is a great idea but poor execution.

If I didn't have $30 in Amazon gift cards I would not have bought it, but since I only had to pay a few bucks my "as seen on tv" infomercial gene kicked in and I thought how cool! Now I see all of the other 5-star reviews, and think to myself, they must be plants by the manufacturer to drive sales, because they couldn't be further from the truth.Soon after my Fondoodler arrived, I came to the crushing realization, that it would take me forever to build a cracker house utilizing melted cheese as the mortor. Now don't get me wrong, the Fondoodler does get cheese all melty good, but it does it in a 1-inch pointed metal nozzle at the front of the device. Additionally, it only comes with one injection tube, so you really can't rotate the the cheese in and out until your one tube (front nozzle tip) cools down. You maybe get 3 crackers worth of cheese, before you have to wait for that 1-inch tip to melt the new cheese pushed into place. So if you're thinking mass production of cheese canapes, maybe look to melt the cheese some other way and use a baster or injector to get a bunch done at a time.Ultimately, I knew if the Fondoodler did not live up to my imagined hype, it would become a White Elephant Christmas gift for 2017 X-Mas with the family. Would I recommend the Fondoodler at full price for a White Elephant X-Mas gift... Definitely not, but if it was $5-$10 where is probably should be priced... Definitely yes.

Meh. It works okay I guess. Softer gooey cheese like American works better but you still can just squeeze a bunch out at one time.