/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>16926571
in this year, I've had it maybe 6 times. that's a fairly common dish that I make.

>>16926571
Really

>>16926571
It is and it's excellent but most brands are extremely unhealthy. Hell, even making it with healthier cheese is still unhealthy.

>>16926571
Yea, it's pretty common, and yea, it is delicious.
It's easy to make.
If it's not common where you are you could just make some yourself.

>>16926571
>Is this really a staple in America?
no

Why the fuck are eating mac and cheese past the age of 12?

>>16926589
>>16926595
a simple mornay sauce is something all should be able to make with just a quick reading. and you can have the exact taste you want, without the garbage added such as chemicals that are added to preserve or to cover up the taste of said chemicals

>>16926606
you have the mind of a 12 year old if you think it's a main dish

>>16926606
as an adult I can eat what I want.

>>16926571
Sometimes I heat up a single serving cup and stir it in with sautéed veggies and meat. Pic related is leftover diced sirloin and various vegetables.

>>16926571
Not a staple, but an occasional side. My mom always made it paired with pork chops and broccoli, things that are kind of plain and need a rich, carb laden side dish.
I've eaten it as a meal many times, but that's not a habit you want to get into. Americans grew up eating this at home and school, so you can say its culture I guess.

>>16926629
This anon brings up a good point.
You don't have to eat it plain.
You can use it as a base for making a whole bunch of neat stuff.

I make a home made baked Mac and cheese about bi monthly. It's an easy comfort food that's delicious. So I guess sort of common.

>>16926606
>implying food has age categories
it all turns into poop.

>>16926571
For poor people, unironically. It's meant to exist as a filler/stretch side for meals that are generally underproportioned.

>>16926642
Exactly. Easy substitute for any starch base and seasonings. Plus I usually add spices/herbs or a tsp of another condiment to mix it up. Pic related was chile/southwest style with a little added cayenne, paprika, worcestershire, etc.

>>16926648
>meant to exist as a filler
how do you think like this?
all food is filler, anon.
you use it to fill your stomach.

>>16926698
You know what, that's a good point. I meant it in more of the sense that it's strictly for filling your gut, versus foods we explicitly enjoy to eat or see as desirable.

>>16926720
why do brits hate cheese?

>>16926629
i'd eat that. it's just pasta with a cheese sauce at that point

>>16926606
>what are side dishes
box of mac = 3-5 meals' worth of a decent carb side dish

>>16926571
Mac and cheese casserole is one of the 'babbys first kitchen creation' North Americans will probably make when they move out from mom and dad's house. Delicious? Yes. Cheap and filling? Yes. Unhealthy? Oh yeah.

>>16926648
>just pulling shit out of your ass and hoping people believe it

>>16926571
I eat Mac and cheese many times a month

t. Midwest boy

>>16926663
>>16926589
>>16926571
i don't get it, please explain
op pic is mac and cheese right - so some elbow/fusilli made with a milk and grated cheese sauce right?
but then one anon is talking about brands (brands of what? the pasta?) and then another one posted a pic of what looks like regular non macaroni and cheese pasta and vegetables. how is that related to op?

>>16927292
the brands they are talking about, are something packaged with either powdered cheese, or you add a Velveeta liquid cheese type thing to it that comes with the noodles. how unhealthy are these chemicals, I don't know. I personally choose to just make my own sauce.

>>16926571
yeah, it's kind of a kid's food, not something I would order as a main dish in a restaurant but I'll eat it as a side during holidays.

American food always looks so terrible

>>16927003
>carb side dish
>for a bowl full of carbs
Do Americans really?

>>16926571
Mac and cheese is the most pleb food imaginable
Even shit like beans on toast is better

>>16928940
>carb bad!
retard

>>16926571
Keep you awake at night thinking about America, does it?

>>16926571
Nah man that's mac and cheese. Might be able to hold some papers together for a little while in a pinch but I wouldn't really recommend it. Works great for shoving up your ass though.

Canadians eat it more often

>>16927094

Give me good mac and cheese recipes /ck/. I fucking love the mac and I'm kind of sick of the box kind.

>>16926571
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbF6uS_zTNA

>>16929187
i love kraf dinner

>>16929051
Kraft Dinner is its own kind of food separate from mac and cheese.

>>16926598
It's a southern staple

>>16926606
>being so desperate for approval you change what you eat
This is why women don't think of you as a man.

>>16929060
Based fry’s turkish delight enjoyer

>>16926571
Yeah it's great, and the ONLY food that bacon simply compliments, not smothers with it's flavor.

>>16927312
oh, i see, thanks, so it's some prepackaged mac and cheese "mix". seems like a waste since it's so stupidly easy to make (and i've only made it 2-3 times). but i guess if cheese is expensive where you are, it might makes sense. here in my cunt the premade/instant stuff is usually is more expensive, even if marginally so.

>>16926589
>most brands
Are you implying that you purchase your macaroni and cheese premade? That’s gross.

>>16926616
>i-it's n-not my main so it's okay!
cope

>Kraft dinner
>mix in can of chili (with beans of course)
Yes, I am based, nice of you to notice.

>>16926571
Common American side dish, but in Canada, they consider it an entire dinner.

>>16926571
That shit is delicious. But it's so loaded with carbs, we only feed it to children.

>>16929396
?????
It is literally the exact same product as "Kraft Macaroni and Cheese", just with a different label.

>>16926571
I think so. I am not white so I don't know for sure but I think mac and cheese is amazing if you don't get it store bought. I like it with a bit of paprika, chilli powder, and crushed cayenne for spice. I make my own cheese sauce which is pretty simple to do and then add blanched broccoli and bacon bits and pan fry it all together in a wok until the cheese sticks and kind of browns just a tiny bit. I assume it's ok if you have it once a week and have reduced fat meals for the day.

>>16930909
I might be wrong but I think they were saying regular home made Mac and cheese is different from a box mix such as Kraft

>>16930919
Unless you're a child, no one is going to serve that to you. The only adults eating macaroni with cheese are the kids who refuse to grow up - or women. Which are you?

>>16930923
I'm not white so this doesn't affect me. I hear mac and cheese is "soul" food for blacks so it's not Minecraft amogus sussy imposter cringe in their culture and Americans worship blacks so they eat their food.

For me tho mac and cheese is exotic. I like eating it while I fuck your mom.

>>/int/

>>16926571
>is this really a staple in america
Of course not. It's a thing that kids eat, and then adults eat fancier versions of at pubs when they're drunk.

>>16930933
Lol - you foreigners fall for propaganda. America absolutely despises joggers. And that's 90% of Americans. Jiggaboo Lou, is not a favorite in this white dominated country.

>>16930960
Be quiet you slack jawed hillbilly and eat your Travis Scott burger

>>16930968
Merry Christmas, my bru!

>>16930868
>cOpE

>>16926571
It's more of a side dish, more of a comfort food/southern cuisine kind of thing

>>16926606
you drink hard seltzers

>>16926610
You suck hard cock.

>>16931132
You suck hard cock.

>>16926647
>Poop
Excuse me. The proper term is "Used Food"

>>16927292
Lol. Americans don't cook mac and cheese from scratch. They buy a box, which they microwave and then eat. Thus the different "brands" of mac and cheese.

>>16929175
Look up Martha Stewarts baked mac and cheese

>>16931310
>all

I grew up with mac and cheese which wasn't pasta plus sauce it was literally just melted cheese mix into pasta.
Now it's the only way I enjoy it.

>>16926571
>literally can’t stop obsessing
/ck/ really needs flags.

>>16932183
same. I can't get into the roux thing, it's no good. I just cube some cheese and throw it on the hot noodles and it melts.

>>16926606
t. insecure manchild that copes by avoiding certain dishes.

>>16927312
>>16927292
Mac & Cheese is better as just pasta.
Dairy is a culinary crutch.

Not sure why mac and cheese brings the snobs and autists out of the woodwork. A roux or citrate-based Mac and cheese with quality pasta, a blend of strong cheeses, and some wine or beer for additional complexity can be an absolutely delicious dish worthy of 'adultness', whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean. Make that cheese sauce out of starchy pasta water and pecorino romano, or melt it in a pot with wine for dipping bread into and suddenly you're eating a 'sophisticated' dish for adults. Absolutely arbitrary bullshit.

Yeah it's a common dish anywhere i've lived in the US. Delicious and really easy to make, and a lot of the box varieties are good too.

>>16933119
>snobs
it's children and manchildren trying to convince people they are refined and adult because they are absolutely gagging for approval

>>16930921
>>16930909
I was indeed saying that. You don't eat kraft dinner because you want mac and cheese, you eat kraft dinner because you want to eat Orange.

non sloppa version is called pasta ai quattro formaggi

>>16926642
for me it's cubed and fried spam. i call it spamaroni and cheese.

>>16926606
Same. When I turned 12 I gave up pepperonis and mac. I dropped out, got a job. Ain’t gonna be one of those losers eating food they like and enjoying life. No sir, I’m gonna be be a fuckin douchebag to people online.

Black people make mac and cheese better and I'm tired of pretending they don't.
If your mac and cheese doesn't have a golden crust at the top I'm not fucking touching it.

>>16934889
Melanin is required for bread crumbs on top of a casserole? I must have hacked reality by doing it without being a BIPOC™.

>>16926571
I'm not a fan of it straight but add some garlic powder and toasted panko to a white cheddar blend...it's a completely different game

>>16934889
Based

>>16934889
>put mac and cheese in oven
>become negro
Sheeeit. I must be the whitest black man in Canada.

>>16930900
Only kids need carbs? What? It’s the staple of every diet of every animal on the planet. Everything becomes sugar to be used as energy. You are disingenuous or do not truly know anything about nutrition. I weep for the dumb shit kids you’re gonna raise on YouTube and public education.

>>16930900
>that 30 year old ketolard

>>16934889
Breadcrumbs are fucking nasty dude. Stop putting crunchy shit on creamy foods. It makes unpleasant textures.

>>16930919
>homemade cheese sauce
>custom spices
>broccoli and bacon
Nobody cares if you are white when you're making amazing homemade food like this. You're whiter than any amerimutt buying kraft shite.

>>16931310
Guess I'm not American then.

>>16934947
That’s like your opinion man.

>>16934947

>>16934947
Crunch is the peak of food. I swear to god, hearing a crunch when you bite into something literally amplifies the flavor.
Maybe it's placebo, but it's fucking real.

>>16934881
peak reddit

>>16935181
>he typed, fascistically

>make mac n cheese
>just pasta and cheese sauce
>get shitted on for having babby palate
>make cacio e pepe
>just pasta and cheese sauce
>respectable home chef

>>16935265
or just put some parsley on top and you dont have to pretend to know a foreign language

fancy

I just bake shredded cheese and cooked pasta

post partum depression hit mom hard. she stayed cooped in her room for most of the day. dad couldn't help because he was working long hours to keep us all afloat. so on weekends and school breaks, 2nd grade me, and my older brother, were on our own. too young to cook for ourselves. But we had a microwave, and a can opener, and that meant we had chef boyardee. i remember afternoons of dragging a heavy chair to the kitchen, standing on it to reach the overhead microwave. the scent of that red sauce, the stains it left. was it healthy? Probably not. did it taste good? not consistently. but it was cheap and accessible, it was grain and salt and protein that kept me from childhold malnutrition. So, Thank you, Hector.

italians really judging people just by the shape of their pasta and not by the way it tastes fucking mussolini losers

>>16935265
pecorino romano with homemade pasta is not the same as american “cheese” with some mass produced bullshit

>>16926571
no. there are no "staples" in america, everyone eats different stuff

i've had mac and cheese once this year

>>16926571
No it's a kids food or a guilty pleasure, sometimes a side dish

>>16935530
The English actually are judging people by their abuses of syntax and punctuation.

In the south it's a vegetable

>>16935530
Why would Italians be judging a six hundred year old English dish
>>16936424
Macaroni cheese does not use American cheese. It's based on a white sauce.

>>16934889
What does using breadcrumbs have to do with blackness
Jesus why do Americans make literally everything about race
You can't even put breadcrumbs on your fucking macaroni cheese without becoming black

>>16937121
>You can't even put breadcrumbs on your fucking macaroni cheese without becoming black
Truer words were never spoken. I was borderline albino before I put a panko topping on macaroni and cheese for the first time. Now I'm as dark as the night, and twice as long.

>>16935178
I love crunch. That’s not my complaint. Combining crunch in to everything I hate. And yeah it’s totally my opinion, just don’t want crunchy in my creamy. I’ll have crunchy bread on the side but I don’t want it all combined.

>>16926642
Same with frozen pizzas

Don't pretend like your home cuisine doesn't have some form of melted cheese on carbs, because I bet it does.

>>16926571
Yes, but it's poverty food. I only eat it when it's homemade to pair with some BBQ.

>>16930842
for me the boxed mac is for days when I just don't have the time or energy to make proper mac and cheese.

Stovetap mac is superior to any of your shitty baked mac atrocious shit. I hate fucking zoomers "on you gotta try my mac n' cheese it's not orange cheese" Bullshit it tastes like crap.

>>16938181
>not oven baked
ngmi

>>16926642
What do you mean he brings up a good point
That's the whole point of macaroni cheese, you're not supposed to eat it plain
I always mix in lardons and chopped mushrooms at least, usually some chillies and gherkins if I want to make it taste like a cheeseburger.

>>16926571
Today's lunch

>>16938181
This dude calls us all zoomers for liking our macaroni cheese cooked traditionally

>>16938266
>kraft cheese and macaroni
>1937
Can't get any better than a greater than an over 75 year tradition.

>>16938270
Macaroni cheese is from the 18th century, anon. It's not even possible to buy kraft macaroni cheese here.

>>16926642
Steak mac n cheese

>>16938274
>Macaroni cheese is from the 18th century
Learn that on youtube didja Zoomer?

>>16938277
No, I studied historic recipe books as part of a module in my history degree.

>>16938274
>It's not even possible to buy kraft macaroni cheese here.
3rd worlders begone.

>>16938282
>wooow you can't even buy borderline toxic junk food? fucking third worlder
the way americans cope with their declining relevance on the world stage is truly illuminating
i bet his response to this post will reference how they could bomb my country and kill civillians indiscriminately

>>16938409
which... I mean... North and Central Africa seems to be pretty good at that too.

>>16926589
If you buy it from a fucking brand, then it's not much of a staple. Staple is something you cook traditionally at home for generations. This on the other hand is just some shit you buy regularly because you're too lazy to cook.

>>16938458
>Staple is something you cook traditionally at home for generations
how many generations are in 85 years? 5?

>>16926606
THIS US ADULTS ONLY EAT UNFLAVORED NUTRITIONAL PASTE AND DRINK ROOM TEMP TAP WATER

>>16938508
Maybe if you're Catholic or African or one of the bad kinds of Asian. What you should be pointing out is that a fuckload of brands sell various staples worldwide because there's consistent money in it.

>>16938555
no, dumbass; A generation is typically 20 years. I'll leave the math to your handler.

>>16938422
i don't get it. did you reply to the wrong post?

>>16938563
Generations are ill defined and using a timeline that's convenient to you while ignoring the actual point of my post is faggotry. Brand A selling staple X doesn't make staple X not a staple.

>>16926606
taste good

>>16926589
>healthier cheese
>healthy
>cheese

>>16938572
Bombing and killing civilians indiscriminately... also referencing your post.

>t. Ahmed Mohammed

>>16926606
If I want to eat it, I do

>>16926571
not a staple, just comfort food

>>16932230
if you're eating mac and cheese you have no business calling anyone a manchild

>>16939507
Are you okay dude? It's not mentally healthy to refuse to eat certain foods because you percieve them as being for children.

>>16939544

>>16939579
lmao guess no adult can ever eat a quesadilla again it's on this kid's menu

>>16926642
hot sauce + tuna + bacon bits + a small handful of shredded sharp cheddar
haven't had it in years but when i was younger that could keep me going for a full day

>>16939589
I've always found it childish. It's a dish for women and children.

>>16939589
you can since you're a manchild

>>16931310
we always had homemade mac and cheese one night and broccoli/cauliflower and cheese sauce the next night with the leftovers as the less fun meal