/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>16306913
Just put some cheeze whiz in it

Imagine being a grown man who eats mac n' cheese.

>>16306917
I’m sorry you didn’t have a dad, anon. It’s not your fault.

>>16306917
Ayo we got a lactose intolerant here

Literally just google mac and cheese powder. Various food suppliers make it.

>>16306917
>>16306936
My dad used to cook me hot dogs and mac and cheese for lunch all the time. He was never a really good cook but I loved that stuff.

why the fuck are you eating mac and cheese over the age of 12

>>16306979
It's delicious and every now and then I like to eat shit and have a taste of my childhood
>>16306947
Holy shit it worked.

>>16306913
Pssssh, not eating Annie's white chad-dar. Ngmi.

>>16306913
It's like super easy to just add pieces of real cheese and let it melt in along with the butter, takes the boxed stuff to the next level. You don't even have to shred it up just sloppa-choppa it and throw it in.

>>16306979
See
>>16306936

>>16307002
This is my primary boxed mac and cheese.

>>16307002
Why yes I am a fellow white chad-ar connoisseur how could you tell?

Thought about slashing my tires with Annie’s, is the brand decent?

>>16306913
You're cooking it wrong. Use more butter and less milk.

>>16307107
I've been eating their white cheddar shells since like 2006. They're great

>>16307118
>2006

>>16307118
I’ll give them a shot next time I’m at the store

>>16307092
You've made my night good sir.

what do you suppose sour cream would do instead of milk for the annies?

>>16306991
Of course it worked. I'll never understand you people who make threads to ask extremely simple questions that could be answered in a fraction of the time on Google.

>>16307002
This is the worst mac or cheese which is why it is always on sale

>>16306913
I'll add in a slice or two of american cheese.
Makes it taste better.
Also, fuck Annie's their mac n cheese tastes like packing peanuts.

Velveeta >

>>16307314
>t. doesn't have cream, butter, and a whisk on hand at all times

>>16307358
I use Kerrygold butter and heavy cream. Comes out fantastic

>>16306913
I've smoked so much pot today guys I think I'm going to finally try and have sex with my sister.

>>16306913
add some herb&garlic cream cheese to boxed mac&cheese right at the end.

>>16307375
This, OP. You should mount it with a lil butter and cream along with the cheese powder. A lil onion powder, smoked paprika, and garlic powder will bring on more flavor too

>>16306913
Doesn't Kraft have a Cheesier one with extra sauce?

>>16307564
>mount
Wut?

>>16306964
Mac n cheese and fish sticks or tendies are also good.

>>16308120
To mount, in cooking, is to emulsify cold butter or fat into something as you take it off the heat.

To finish a risotto, you "mount" your butter and cheese into it. If you were to add the butter and cheese into it while it's still gaining heat, you run the risk of the fat "breaking" - like mayo does.

To finish a lemon curd, you mount it with butter and icebath it

Beurre monté (pictured) translates from french literally to "mounted butter", and that's pretty much exactly how you make it - warm water, a little salt, and the slow addition of clumps of cold butter.

Mounting - adding butter at the end - is beneficial because as it stays emulsified, it adds creaminess, rather than oiliness

>>16308175
based and actual-answerpilled

>>16308175
Beautiful - learned something new today

>>16308175
so in the context of boxed mac and cheese, do you add the butter, milk, and cheese powder after turning off the heat? or are you adding a bit of extra butter at the end?

>>16308198
You mount that bitch. Did he stutter?

>>16308184
Glad if it helps my dude. It's a good fundamental technique to know. If you ever want a good sauce thats deceivingly simple to impress someone, a beurre blanc is absolutely delicious with fish and rice

>>16308198
even the retard-level directions on the box say to add this shit after it is off the heat and drained

>>16308207
i already knew that stuff, but i really like to see the odd actual helpful answer on here instead of endless fast food bullshit

>>16308208
it doesn't explicitly say anything about the heat

>>16308198
In the context of boxed mac and cheese, I strain the mac, and reintroduce it to the warm pan with a spoonful or so of the pasta cooking water, and then add in my butter, cheese, and a tiny splash of cream. Then I mix it about until the butter melts fully. In this situation, the butter should most certainly end up remaining creamy and nice.

Adding butter at the end stage of a cooking project is something that's nice to do for cream-based soups as well. When you blend a soup or puree, as it's spinning, throw a T or so of butter in there to enrich the soup's texture.

Obviously cooking like this is strictly for pleasure and not health

>>16308216
It doesn't say to put the pasta back in the pot and then turn the heat on either.

>>16308216
step 2: drain
>take it off heat
step 3: add shit

>>16308232
thanks. i'll try that with soups too

>>16308241
>>16308251
i've always kept it on the lowest setting after returning it to the pot. idk if that's enough for the butter to separate but i'll try doing it this way now

>>16308258
the pan is still warm enough to melt butter (along with heat of macaroni) but not hot enough to scorch milk. keeping it on low should be fine, especially if you are doing other stuff and did not immediately finish the mac & cheese

>>16307157
>zoomer
ngmi

>>16307035
So you're a manchild, got it.

>>16306917
>Imagine being a grown man who eats mac n' cheese.
lol what?
what's wrong with macaroni and cheese? I haven't had it in a few years myself of course, but that's just coincidence but someone who considers himself sophisticated and maybe has a high income is still going to enjoy something super simple and extremely delicious like crumbled up fried ground beef mixed in with kraft dinner, just depending on how insecure he is he may have to do it all in secret.

>>16306979
>why the fuck are you eating mac and cheese over the age of 12
why are you so worried about what other people enjoy?

>>16306913
buy two boxes and throw out the noodles in one. they're like a dollar. I've been doing this since I was like 9

>>16306913
>There's never enough of the powder cheese when I cook mac and cheese. Is there some way to make or buy more? Are there any substitutes out there?
Look on Amazon, they have a surprisingly robust selection of powdered cheese you can buy

>>16306913
Why do you need powder cheese, why can't you just add grated cheese?

>>16308389
gross, not the same at all. Real cheese flavor just ruins it. boxed mac and cheese > homemade mac and cheese

>>16308389
>>16308394
also makes it too 'gooey'

I add slices of American cheese to my Kraft box stuff.

>>16308394
>Real cheese flavor just ruins it.
you can use a mild cheese if you don't like stronger flavors i guess but boxed stuff seems bland by comparison to me now after making it from scratch for so long

>>16306913
https://www.amazon.com/Hoosier-Hill-Farm-Daddy-Pound/dp/B00X1LJZUG/ref=asc_df_B00X1LJZUG/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312112196778&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=5330916530018886602&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9032815&hvtargid=pla-569019061842&psc=1

>>16306917
it's a mutt thing

>>16308521
I make Mac from scratch regularly, but still enjoy a quick box of Annie's white cheddar shells from time to time.

>>16306913
Hello.

>>16308977
It's actually more a canuck thing.

>>16306917
Imagine being an adult and eating Italian food.

>>16309861
nah

>>16306913
Use less milk, or preferably, none at all

>>16311420
>not enough cheese
>solution is to use LESS milk

shiggy diggy anon

>>16307002
For me it's the 4-cheese penne in the red box
The shells always clump together and remain hard on the inside, no matter how much I stir them

>>16308352
*kraft dinner*
Canadian detected.

>>16311741
Its white cheese or nothing you faggot.
Repent.

>>16312720

>>16306939
THIS NIGGA LACK TOES IN TOLL RANTS LOL >>16306917

>>16312750

PROALLY BIRTHED WRONG ON THE UM BILL UNCLE CORD

If you want the texture/flavor of Kraft or the other boxed stuff, you want sodium citrate. It basically allows you to water down cheese, which is in large part fat. So instead of roux/Mornay/etc you are boiling water (or another liquid, like milk/beer/whatever) and adding sodium citrate, then throwing in shedded cheese of whatever variety. It's the origin of Kraft as a company. Cheap on Amazon.

It's homemade Velveeta, but with whatever cheese you want.

>>16306917
Imagine being an adult and NOT doing whatever the fuck you want. You simped for society and look where it got you? Being a judgmental condescending cunt on a food forum.

>>16307424
Good for you lad, live that dream. My mothers my sister so I just can’t bring myself to do it.

>>16306913
>Not enough powdered cheese
Ok fatass. Buy powdered cheese separately then.

>>16306917
Imagine not being able to appreciate Kraft dinner. Cheesy, fatty, salty pasta: a product that can be enjoyed at any age (assuming that you aren't a joyless cunt).

>>16312915
Kraft Mac is nothing like Velveeta, retard. Commit sudoku.

>>16308934
This stuff is great. Please learn to clip urls though

>>16312971
here you go
http://www.amzn.com/dp/B00X1LJZUG

>>16312982

damn thinking about getting this

>>16313010
I went ahead and ordered the no color added version. Says it'll be here by 11am tomorrow with overnight delivery.

>>16312982
>http://www.amzn.com/dp/B00X1LJZUG
Way to fuck up a shortened URL.

Use this address next time: http://amzn.com/B00X1LJZUG

https://youtu.be/ON8Q9HSanOo

Try some powders you can buy them off amazon in bulk

>>16308934
You have changed my life. Thank you.

Imagine being an adult and NOT doing whatever the fuck you want.

>>16313254
>I can't do that someone will make fun of me!

>>16313041
wow that was pretty quick.

Ordered at around 23:50, delivered at 08:23

>>16314198
based

>>16312956
OP explicitly asked where he can buy powdered cheese

>>16314198
it doesn't taste right without the food coloring :^)

>BIG DADDY MAC MIX

>>16306913
People eat this shit? wtf

>>16306917
Seriously. Manchildren disgust me.

>>16306917
adults eat ramen

>>16308934
This shit is great

>>16306964
same, and I still make it, only now I use and add sriracha to it, learned that back in grade 7. My mom makes a mean homemade mac and cheese too. Life is good.
>>16307002
This is my go-to now. I'm a grown man and I haven't mastered the best way to make the cheese sauce, it never gets fully mixed in.

>>16308363
>buy two boxes and throw out the noodles in one. they're like a dollar. I've been doing this since I was like 9
This guy fucks.

>>16307002
Not even the best white cheddar.

>>16306913
I usually throw in some of that shitty powdered Kraft "parmesan " stuff

>>16316770
never seen or heard of it

I can get annies almost anywhere in the country.

>>16316852
>cooking with muttoids

>>16317073
>"cooking"

just butter + some flour in a pan, mix up til it browns just a lil, then milk. Heat and stir, then cheeses. Top with some fresh herbs and mix some al dente pasta in

>>16308175
mounted your mother with my fat cock lmao

>>16316770
Based af. I used to think annies was the best until I had this. This stuff is criminally slept on.

>>16306936
Mac and cheese is the most "fartherless with an overworked single mom" depression food though
>>16308352
>>16312956
Liking boxed kraft is honestly super sad. I love real mac and cheese even if it is low brow and a great example of what's wrong with mutt cuisine but when you're not even going to the trouble of making your own bechamel and putting a decent cheese blend + breadcrumbs you should honestly just order fast food

>>16306917
it’s easy to imagine because it’s me

>>16316770
>>16317577
$4-7/box
Has to be imported from canada

Yeah no wonder it's criminally underrated, it's criminally expensive and would be retarded to buy for 90% of the posters here.

>>16306917
Found the black toads in toddler pants

>>16306913
you could make a roux, add some milk, and stir in some sharp orange cheddar to get a similar consistency with better tasting ingredients

>>16306917
Pfft. Bullshit to you mate. I'm a chef and I love that stuff.

>>16319281
This isn't true. A béchamel really isn't the same and doesn't produce as good of a velvety smooth sauce. If you really want to make a great sauce/dip then you have to use emulsifiers like sodium phosphate or sodium citrate. The cheese flavor will be much stronger as well.

>>16319358
Forgot pic

>>16308934
This is about as good as most boxed mac powder, but after about a year it will start clumping together and become unusable.

>>16319399
then eat it before a year, what are you a woman ?

>>16319417
I'M TRYING BUT I JUST CAN'T DILATE ENOUGH
WHY CAN'T I BE A WOMAN
WHY CAN'T I SNEED
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>16319399
> but after about a year
the dates printed on the side of mine confirm, it's only usable for a year.


Mine was manufactured in late Jan 2021, says it needs to be used by Jan 2022.

So yeah, 1 year shelf life.

>>16319425
Cringe

Non americano here, this thread got me craving some mac'n cheese.

Do you guys add butter to your mac n cheese? I do it when adding the powder and milk. Is there any other way to make it creamier?

>>16319761
use heavy cream instead of milk

>>16319761
>Do you guys add butter to your mac n cheese?
One tablespoon if I'm making it for myself, four tablespoons if I'm making it for "others".

>>16308934
Im going to add this to my ramen

>>16319300
Well yeah, you're a manchild. It would be surprising if you didn't.

>>16319761
Powdered instant mashed potato

>>16310623
Canadians on average eat 2x as much dairy as Americans, and macaroni cheese is frequently cited as Canada’s national dish.
Go be a retard antiamerican euroseethe on plebbit where saying ‘durr murrikkka’ earns you a gold star or whatever they call it

>>16306913
use less milk and butter

>>16321222
That just concentrates the cheese flavor, which does NOTHING to provide more cheese.

>>16319247
>weight listed in grammes
100% canuck import

Just less milk

>>16321240
How are you people this retarded?

OP is not looking for cheesier tasting cheese sauce, he wants MORE cheese sauce.

Saying use less liquids just concentrates the flavor of the cheese, you get LESS cheese sauce by doing that though, not more like the OP wants.

If he is willing to lose some of the cheese flavor he can stretch it out with more butter/milk and maybe use heavy cream instead of milk to make it creamier. But otherwise the only option is to get cheese powder like >>16308934

>>16306913
I got u senpai