/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>8125378

I have never actually seen anyone prepare nachos at home.

Do white people do that?

That being said, Frito Pie is superior in almost every way, and is a lot more hearty and convenient, generally.

I don't fucking understand nachos. When I make them at home it's always shit. I've tried in the oven, in the microwave, seasoned beef, different cheeses, etc.

Then when I go to a nice tex-mex place and order nachos they're awesome!

>>8125608

It's all in the quality of cheese and the chips.

Most Tex-Mex places are making fresh chips out of fresh corn tortillas, and the difference between the kind of chips you get in bags, andn the kinds of chips you see in restaurants is vast, due to the lack of care about oil going rancid.

The key to most Tex-Mex is liberal use of oil in foods and a refusal to drain or pat dry the oils.

Chuck a packet of Doritos on a fucking tray and put mozzarella cheese on it with sour cream and salsa and some shredded fucking meat if you wanna be a connosur type cunt

I've had nachos at fancy Mexican restaurants and shit, but my favorite are always the kind you get at fast food/convenience stores.

Processed nacho cheese sauce is like crack to me.

>>8125378
I do my 'chos ball park style with extra 'peños

>>8125378
beans and cheese and your peps and w/e over chips in the broiler for a little

>>8125830
I don't even understand why it's so good. I can make a mac n' cheese that'll blow minds, but alone I'll just go for Kraft. It's criminal.

I hate traditional nachos and only enjoy them in the ballgame-type cheese sauce. So sometimes I'll whip up some cheese sauce and ladle it onto some nacho chips if I'm in the mood, but that's usually for rare occasions.

Always heat the sauce individual

>>8126504
No Homo!

>>8126504

>>8125863
What cheese do you use?

>>8126511
NO HOMO !

>>8125863
Thats like a jalapeno salad. Shit man.

I do layers in a baking dish - tortilla chips, salsa, sour cream, grated cheese (sometimes guac and jalapenos) layered as you would a lasagne.

Bake for about 10 minutes at gas 4, delicious every time. They do get a bit soggy though, so if you wanted really crispy nachos, it's not the best method.

>>8125378
I'm a sucker for nacho cheese sauce, so I use that rather than grated cheese. I'm sure there'll be nacho purists that'll shit on the idea, but hey, that's me.

1) Brown your ground beef. Don't crowd the pan and cook on a nice high temp so you actually get it browned (not just grayed which is what happens when you cook too low or crowd the pan). I buy pretty lean ground beef if it's nachos so I don't have to worry about draining the beef.
2) Add some water and taco seasoning to your ground beef and cook according to the directions. All the meat should be evenly coated and the water and seasoning should thicken into a bit of a sauce.
3) Add a layer of tortilla chips to your plate or dish. Opt for a decent brand here that tastes good on its own, and personally I go for a brand that has the least salt. Between taco seasoning and cheese sauce, there's plenty of salt already.
4) Sprinkle some of your seasoned ground beef over your chips.
5) Heat up your nacho cheese and spoon liberally over your meat and chips. If you're using shredded cheese, you'd still add it here but you'd probably want to pop it into the oven for a few so it gets nice and melty and your other toppings will stick to the cheese. With cheese sauce it's already sticky and drips down into the meat and onto the chips.
6) This is where I go nuts. I add finely diced onion, some diced seeded tomato, sliced black olives, and sliced jalapenos over the whole thing. I like a lot of veg over mine as it helps contrast the heavy cheese and the saltiness of the rest.

It's a little more time consuming than just microwaving chips and cheese, but it tastes a damn sight better than that junk anyway. I normally do it just a couple of times of year, but damn if it isn't a satisfying weekend snack with a couple of beers.