Just not in the prison cafeteria, that food qualifies as cruel and unusual punishment.
their “solitary” should be together, and in a special section of the kitchen so that they are constantly having to do the cook off until they realise they suck
I am confused and afraid, the one on the left appears to have the scooping characteristics of ice cream
likely cause by mac overcooked to hell and back and cheese is nothing but cheese that has all of it’s moisture absorbed by the mac
It’s more of a cheese infused macaroni loaf now
Protip: The reason Velveeta and American cheeses melt so well is because sodium citrate is added to them. You can buy this yourself as a powder, and then add it to actually-good cheeses to give them the same properties.
You can also just melt nearly any cheese into a roux to make a mornay sauce if you are careful about it, which is the secret to both mac and cheese and queso sauce. Sodium citrate helps to keep it from breaking but is not strictly necessary in most cases.
Edit - yes, cheese and milk
This sounds fancy, so to make it a bit less daunting:
- roux - flour and fat (typically butter), usually in equal amounts by weight
- béchamel sauce - roux + milk, often with nutmeg for flavoring
- mornay sauce - béchamel sauce with grated cheese
When making the béchamel sauce, add the milk a very small amout at a time to prevent clumping, and mix well over medium heat between additions.
I use mustard powder
You’ve saved my life 😋
My buddy bought a bunch of this to make queso dip. It works well for that
My entry.
Mac, Cheese, Peas, and Bacon:
Prison.
What’s the charge?
Eating a meal? A succulent American meal?
Ray, a drop of golden sun.
Peas are a hate crime.
Don’t knock it till you try it!
Everyone is giving you shit. I hate Mac and cheese, but yours with bacon and peas I might actually try.
It is amazing.
No one can convince me they actually like peas. They’re all paid off by big pea
Peas are just savory popping boba, what’s not to love?
They’re nutritious as hell and cheap. People just don’t know how to prepare/season them
I like peas
Not like this though. I have peas growing in my garden. I eat them fresh and uncooked. Hell, sometimes I even eat the pod.
Cooked peas suck
Garden peas are my favourite vegetable, or petit poi in a pinch. Marrowfat peas less so, though obviously you need marrowfat for mushy peas, and sometimes mushy peas are a must.
They are beans close cousin!
Inappropriate peaing
Straight to prison. There’s no due process here.
America seems to have forgotten what is a due process anyway lately, why would these need one when others don’t for milder reasons
Cheese apathy, book em
I dispute the charge! There’s plenty of cheese in there!
This is perfect, you can easily scoop up just bacon and peas to eat and skip the rest
Nooooo!
As an American, why bother with the peas?
My fellow American, peas are delicious! Not only does the flavor pair with bacon, providing an earthy, grassy savoryness that complements the salty, fatty deliciousness of the bacon to create a rich flavor, but the pop and mush of biting into a pea provides a firmament to the crunch and chew of the star that is bacon to form a heavenly texture
Electric chair.
And that’s how you get out of having to cook something for Thanksgiving
That looks horrible. And why the fuck is any sane person preparing a cassetole in a throwaway baking dish?
1 - you don’t have to worry about leaving a dish
2 - you don’t have to clean it after a get together that is probably exhausting
3 - aluminum is one of the materials that is actually very recyclable, so it’s not a big deal like plastic is.
75% of all aluminum ever mined is still in circulation- its also more efficient- recycling aluminum takes 5% of the energy it takes to produce it.
But you can’t recycle it when it’s dirty
I have melted and cast ingots from thousands of dirty aluminum cans. Rinsing first is ideal of course, but all the crap floats to the top of the molten metal as slag and you can scoop it off to discard.
I’m sure you can, but at the recycling facility it will be rejected. Look it up.
Ya but how many people are cleaning and recycling them? They’re going straight in the garbage.
Because you’re going to a potluck and don’t want to worry about getting your dish back?
Right: American cheese on top. That’s gotta be raw pasta underneath.
Left: “came away clean from the tray” in what I can only imagine is a congealed cheese+starch block.
These are terrible choices.
The only correct choice is not to play.
So I’ve never made mac and cheese because it’s literally not a thing where I’m from. How would you make it and is there any way I can sneak some garlic in?
This is a complex topic. People here are nostalgic for family recipes, box mixes, and restaurant varieties. There’s no one single way to make this dish.
The basic components are just pasta and cheese sauce. It doesn’t need to be baked, but its done like that sometimes to make it easier to prepare, or caramelize the top a bit. Some add breadcrumbs to the top before baking, others add some mustard, paprika, or chili to the sauce. It’s also not uncommon to see people add hot sauce after serving, since this is usually kind of bland (fatty and starchy) comfort food.
The key is that everyone makes mac & cheese their own way. If you have a savory cheese sauce in the cuisine where you’re from, you could probably just use something like that. But I recommend trying this the american way first, just so you know how you want to customize it.
Simple: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/238691/simple-macaroni-and-cheese/
Complex: https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/old-fashioned-macaroni-and-cheese/#RecipeCard
With garlic: https://www.justataste.com/roasted-garlic-macaroni-and-cheese-recipe/
I’ve never done it, but the garlic version looks great! I checked a few other variations and the consensus is to roast a head of garlic and mash it into the cheese sauce.
Oh wow, they’ve started adding Jump to Recipe buttons! Excellent!
I think I’ll start out trying the simple one with cheddar first. We don’t have any particularly Estonian cheeses anyway, we only make other cultures cheeses hehe
Mac And Plastic
Mac n Cheese doesn’t belong at a Thanksgiving table.
You can take it from my cold, dead, cheese covered hands!
We’ll take the kids menu from your cold dead hands.
The entire African-American community wants to
- Know your location
My kids specifically request it for all holidays.
Flight me. 😛
We don’t make it for Thanksgiving, but I wouldn’t turn my nose at a made from scratch baked mac. My granny taught me her recipe and there are never leftovers when we make it.
WHY ARE THERE GREEN BEANS IN THE MAC AND CHEESE? T_T
also just make tini’s mac and cheese; anything else is scandalous
I think that’s just the bad color temperature of the lighting, giving the macaroni noodles a green hue.
mac ✅
cheese ✅
i mean i don’t see the problem
The cheese part is debatable.
And the mac part doesn’t seem to exist anymore, it’s a solidified mass.
It does look like prison Mac
Les francophones, on est d’accord que leur mac and cheese bidule, c’est juste un gratin de pâtes ?
Avec du fromage qui mérite même pas ce nom : c’est plus des pâtes cuites dans une substance gluante jaune-blanche toute droit issue des merveilles de l’industrie pétrochimique.
Ces deux-là n’ont pas l’air super mais un gratin béchamel-fromage peut être pas mal. D’après moi, ça ne mérite pas d’être un héritage familial mais ça mérite bien de saucer l’assiette.
I don’t want to live in a world where this is real!
