As a white girl in a culinary wasteland, this hurts me on a level that my English ancestors can feel. My favourite food is plain unsalted potatoes, and yet this abomination is offensive to me.
I’m certain serving either of these would be considered a war crime. I’m actually confident if we offered these choices to insurgent armies as the only alternative to a truce, we’d have peace on earth.
What I’m saying is both of these crimes against pasta are soul-crushingly awful. Jesus wept.
Ok, so plain unsalted potatoes are fine, but as your favorite food??
Aye. I know it’s weird.
At least you own it. Plus, makes it easy to have your favorite food whenever you want it.
My favourite food is plain unsalted potatoes
Weirdly enough I feel like I’m fast approaching that too. Some days I just can’t be arsed to make real food so I bake a potato and call it a day.
Bechemel dammit your Mac and cheese needs to start with a bechemel
I had no idea it was called Béchamel, lol. I always referred to it all as roux as you really just add more to the base sauce. The more you know…
Roux is flour and butter. Bechamel is a roux + milk. Mornay is a bechamel + cheese.
So you’re telling me it’s a Macaroni Mornay this entire time?
And a Macaroni Afternoon too!
Macaroni good night. 🚪 🛫
It’s possible to have a good mac and cheese without bechamel (e.g. by using Velveeta instead), but those two pictured ain’t it.
Mmm pasteurized process cheese product with a vaguely cheese-like flavor
Both of these horrors look like those Walmart one pan recipes where you dump a 4lb bag of cheese on some noodles with some kind of broth and cook for an hour hoping what comes out is edible…
I still find it wild that Americans call macaroni and lasagne “noodles”.
Germans do it too. All pasta is noodles.
I find it weird that anyone has an issue with that.
You’re right, I should have said pasta, feel free to shame me, I don’t call penne, macaroni, etc., noodles e.g. but I certainly said noodles above.
Never feel any shame, they’re all noodles and they’re all pasta.
My beloved wife still thinks it’s all the same and we are crazy for having so many different names and shapes for 面条
Ask her why the shapes of 兰州拉面,油泼面,𰻝𰻝面, 重庆小面,etc. are so different.
Hahaha! Yeah exactly! And same for all the delicious varieties of 豆腐. Mostly she just gets crazy trying to remember all the Italian names, since we are in France. It’s a fair point. It’s just funny slagging her about it :)
Its green. WHY IS IT GREEN
Their camera is as bad as their mac and cheese.
Both with potato.
WTF is wrong with americans? Can’t they eat normal somewhat healthy food? Use real cheese and just grate it on top of some hot macaroni, damn it.
Us real Americans make our own cheese with melted plastic and yellow food coloring. We don’t need that commie dairy shit.
American cheese isn’t made of plastic in the sense of polymers, it is plastic in the sense of being easily deformed or molded.
At its most basic, American cheese is literally just cheese, water and sodium phosphate. It’s “not cheese”, but in the sense that meatloaf isn’t meat and mayonnaise isn’t eggs.
Your “cheese” sucks.
Man I don’t even wanna know what’s in the powdered cheese you get in a macaroni box. (I don’t eat any cheese cause I’m lactose intolerant, but I always see people just toss the cheese pouch and use their own cheese.)
It’s powdered cheese sauce.
It’s mostly made using spray dryers. Basically, a spray dryer uses hot air to quickly dry a fine mist of something. It’s how they make milk powder and egg powder as well.
WTF is wrong with you??? You just grate cheese over pasta and call it a day? The cheese should be melted into a sauce (I start with a bechamel and then add cheese), then mixed into the macaroni. I prefer to bake it with breadcrumbs on top after for some textural variety.
Yeah, bechamel is great too, but I’m lazy. Cheese only is also fine if you let it sit a bit with top covered. It’s not dry if you use soft creamy type of cheese. Baking it? Nah - it’ll be too soft and melty for my taste, pasta should have texture.
Baked pasta works better if you start off only parboiling the pasta so it doesn’t overcook.
REAL Macaroni and Cheese, you fucking savages:
8" X 8" casserole dish, 2-2.5 cups macaroni noodles (half of 16 oz. box), 2 eggs, beaten, 2 cups milk, 1 8 oz block extra sharp cheddar cheese, grated, 4 tbs butter or margarine, sliced
Mix eggs and milk in separate container. Boil and drain noodles (15 min, or until tender.) Pour half of noodles into dish, spread out into an even layer. Cover noodles in dish with a layer of shredded cheese. Cover cheese in dish with rest of noodles. Cover last layer of noodles with rest of cheese. Pour egg and milk mixture over noodles and cheese in dish. Insert fork or spoon into mixture at various points and slightly agitate to ensure egg and milk mixture fully saturates noodles. Cut butter into small pieces and evenly cover top of mixture at 1-2" intervals.
Bake at 350 degrees for 30-45 minutes, or until lightly browned on top.
NO FUCKING CRUST.
How can you mess up Mac and Cheese that badly?
By thinking it requires only 2 ingredients.
It’s clearly got three. Imagine forgetting the And
Even the Kraft stuff in a box needs 4
You can make a pretty decent Mac and cheese using only macaroni, cheese and evaporated milk.
Or macaroni, cheese, and sodium citrate.
By making it a casserole
The best Mac and cheese is baked, but a crock pot is a close second.
No.
Crockpot mac and cheese would be an overcooked limp mess.
Would you serve it with steamed tater tots?
I am going to assume you are wrong because your name is awful.
I love the low key savage response. Tbh, if I had nothing else I’d eat the right one because it looks less…congealed?
I cook a lot and I’m just impressed someone can burn cheese.
deleted by creator
Mac and cheese is just lasagne for people too poor to afford meat.
Tell me you’ve never had good Mac & Cheese without telling me you’ve never had good Mac & Cheese.
What do you mean? Kraft is awesome!
/s
Boxed Mac and Cheese is one of those “its so bad its good” foods.
There are literally gourmet mac and cheese restaurants. And they put meat in the mac and cheese. Believe it or not, that is possible.