Although it is summer and hot, eating raclette in Obergesteln is quite normal. For others, it is crazy to eat raclette in summer but not for people in Valais. Well, if you do it inside your own house, then it is really going to be hot, that is why we do not even do it at home.
Raclette is a melted cheese. You eat raclette with potatoes, pickles, mini sausages, among others.
If you eat raclette in a restaurant in Valais, of course they will serve it to you. It is not like fondue, be it swiss fondue or fondue chinoise, where you have to do the “cooking” in front of you while you are eating.
If you eat raclette at home, then you do it like fondue, put the so-called small oven on the table and using some special instruments, put the cheese at the oven and wait for the cheese to melt.