/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.17424353]

Made Mac and Cheese tonight
- Red Leicester cheese
- Salt, pepper, paprika, and a bit of English mustard in the sauce
- Chorizo and red pepper mixed in
- Spicy cheddar on the top
It turned out very very nice. Perhaps the best pasta dish I have ever made.

[Anonymous No.17424358]

Looks plain but sounds delicious, would try. Fuck jannies.

[Anonymous No.17424378]

>>17424353
What does red leicester cheese taste like? We don't have this in the USA as far as I know.

[Anonymous No.17424389]

>i made food for babies but i used a bunch of nonstandard ingredients

[Anonymous No.17424390]

>>17424378
Bit of a nutty, smoky flavour. My favourite cheese ever. If you can find somewhere that does it I obviously recommend trying it.

[Anonymous No.17424400]

>>17424389
Gay post, funny gif. Stealing.

[Anonymous No.17424470]

>>17424390
I love the taste of nut

[Anonymous No.17424566]

>>17424470
How about you come over and try some then (◠‿◕)

[Anonymous No.17424810]

>>17424566
Promise you aren’t just teasing?

[Anonymous No.17424818]

>>17424353
why the fuck are you eating mac and cheese past the age of 12

[Anonymous No.17424848]

>>17424818
why are you still living with your mother

[Anonymous No.17424924]

>>17424810
You have my word

[Anonymous No.17424928]

>>17424818
>Noooo not the heckin pasta in cheese sauce!!!

[Anonymous No.17424963]

>>17424353
I see a lot of grease, it looks like your cheese split.

[Anonymous No.17424972]

>>17424963
Anything baked with a lot of cheese has grease rise to the top lol. When you get a greasy pizza, did the cheese split there, too?

[Anonymous No.17424986]

>>17424972
Not if you use the right kind of cheese retard.

[Anonymous No.17424994]

>>17424986
Yes it does you fucking moron. Ever baked lasagna? You'll get a lot of grease pooling if you top it with too much cheese.

[Anonymous No.17425009]

>>17424972
A bechamel should not split. Either you didn't cook it long enough on the stove before adding the cheese, you used too little flour, you used low fat milk, you used too much cheese or the wrong type of cheese, like one that's too mature, or you overbaked it or baked it at too high of a temperature.

[Anonymous No.17425015]

>>17424994
Lasagne shouldn't be greasy unless you did something wrong??

[Anonymous No.17425018]

>>17425009
He didn't even say that he made a bechamel in the OP. A lot of people just dump the cheese in milk until it melts.

[Anonymous No.17425023]

>>17425015
Yeah--like add too much cheese to the top as I already said.

[Anonymous No.17425031]

>>17425018
True and if he did that then no wonder, that would be an awful idea.

[Anonymous No.17425035]

>>17425031
How so? I've made it both ways and truth be told, the bechamel doesn't add as much as you think. I'd say the cheese sauce is actually richer when it's thickened entirely with cheese.

[Anonymous No.17425062]

>>17425035
Maybe it works for stovetop mac and cheese, but baked? Look at this, it's swimming in grease. There's pockets of grease down the side even, it looks absolutely disgusting. Even the area the light is shining on, you can tell that's super greasy.

[Anonymous No.17425084]

>>17425062
It looks fine to me but I'm not picky. Most people don't notice the grease when mac and cheese is baked because it's usually topped with breadcrumbs.

[Anonymous No.17425137]

>>17424994
We're not talking about lasagna now are we bitch. You don't use the same cheese for lasagna as you do for mac unless you're an olive garden amerifat. There is never any reason for mac to have greasy separated cheese as long as you use the right kind.

[Anonymous No.17425147]

>>17425137
You can use whatever type of cheese you want for mac and cheese you dummy.

[Anonymous No.17425160]

>>17424378
You should be able to find it if you have some decent cheese shops around.

[Anonymous No.17425167]

>>17425160
I live in a rural shithole in the middle of a cornfield so that's out of the question. I could probably travel to Indy or Chicago or something to find it but is it worth it?

[Anonymous No.17425195]

>>17425084
>it looks fine to me
only plebs like greasy mac

[Anonymous No.17425198]

>>17425147
Yeah you can if you want a bowl of separated grease.

[Anonymous No.17425214]

There's a reason you're supposed to make a cheese sauce with a bechamel base. That shit looks greasy as fuck and some areas look dry.

[Anonymous No.17425220]

>>17425195
OP's stuff looks nothing like that. That pic looks like you dumped half a cup of oil extra in with that slop then took a pic. The more you fags give me (yous) ITT the more it becomes apparent that you guys don't cook much at all if you lose your shit over a bit of grease.

[Anonymous No.17425227]

>>17424353
>only 2 cheeses
It belongs in the trash.

[Anonymous No.17425233]

>>17425062
OP here, the grease is from the chorizo. I know I shouldn't have put it in but it gives it a nice colour.

[Anonymous No.17425238]

>>17425214
I did though.

[Anonymous No.17425247]

>>17425198
Post your mac and cheese recipe autismo.

[Anonymous No.17425252]

>>17425233
>but it gives it a nice colour.
That's why tumeric exists. You aren't very good at this are you OP?

[Anonymous No.17425254]

looks good but you shouldve browned the cheese on the top it makes it so good.

[Anonymous No.17425257]

>>17425238
Then apparently you fucked it up completely.

[Anonymous No.17425264]

>>17425238
You overbaked it at too high a temperature, use the broiling setting and babysit it next time to make sure you get the crust you want without making it so oily.

[Anonymous No.17425274]

>>17425264
He said the oil was from the chorizo.

[Anonymous No.17425284]

>>17425264
>putting a glass dish under the broiler
you bloody saying what

[Anonymous No.17425292]

>>17424924
I’m prepping my bussy

[Anonymous No.17425350]

>>17425257
>>17425264
Did you tards not read what I said?? It was the oil from the chorizo.

[Anonymous No.17425355]

>>17425292
Oh my

[Anonymous No.17425366]

>>17425160
>cheese shops
It's called a cheesemonger. That's like calling a butcher a meat shop.

[Anonymous No.17425378]

>>17425366
I'm sure you prefer to be referred to as a cockmonger instead of the uncouth term dick sucking queer

[Anonymous No.17425382]

>>17424353
That looks disgusting, 3lbs of cheese and grease and 1 lb of macaroni.

[Anonymous No.17425383]

>>17424353
Looks good, could have used a crumb crust to soak up some of that extra oil in the oven.

[Anonymous No.17425500]

>>17425350
Then you should have given it a parmesan crust like any good mac & cheese, would have soaked up the excess oil.

[Anonymous No.17425511]

>>17425035
If you don't want to make a bechamel, then you need to use velveeta. If has emulsifiers in it that holds the sauce together. Plus it adds a lot to the flavor.

[Anonymous No.17425518]

>>17425062
those grease pockets are the best part

[Anonymous No.17425525]

>>17425511
I never said that I didn't. I think it's funny how idiots ITT claim that the cheese broke or some shit when OP specifically said he added meat to his mac.

[Anonymous No.17425537]

>>17425525
It definitely did split though, bechamel is made by mixing fat with flour. The extra fat from his chorizo shouldn't make the sauce greasy since it should emulsify into the sauce if it was done correctly. His problem was clearly that he baked it in the oven and didn't just brown it under the broiler. Baked recipes typically use eggs or evaporated milk to prevent splitting.

[Anonymous No.17425546]

>>17425537
It wouldn't emulsify into the sauce if he added the chorizo after he made the bechamel. He probably browned the meat first, took it out, then added it later. The residual grease from the meat would rise to the top as anyone that has ever baked anything would know especially something as fatty as chorizo.

[Anonymous No.17425599]

>>17425247
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jado2za9g8c

[Anonymous No.17425608]

This entire thread is why very few people post OC to this board.

[Anonymous No.17425613]

>>17425137
red leicester is about as close as you can get to conventional mac and cheese cheese selection as you can get without literally just being them

[Anonymous No.17425640]

>>17425608
only dickfuck kids care about OC. kys

[Anonymous No.17425648]

>>17424378
No in America says "in the USA". We have every cheese in the world and I don't even live anywhere fancy.

[Anonymous No.17425660]

>>17425195
Fuck that’s a lot of oil

[Anonymous No.17425671]

>>17425366
And that was /ck/'s......

FUN FACT

[Anonymous No.17425693]

>>17425546
You can actually if you go heavier on the flour and lighter on the butter to compensate for the extra fat from the meat. Turns out knowing how to cook can be useful when you're cooking stuff.

[Anonymous No.17425699]

>>17425640
Spoken like a true zoomer faggot

[Anonymous No.17425710]

>>17425608
I don't mind that much. If I could convey how well it tasted through the interweb I know all those complaints would go out the window.

[Anonymous No.17425733]

NOOO NOT GREASE IN THE FREAKIN MAC AND CHEESEARINO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous No.17425734]

Looks great, OP. On Saturday, I paid $12 AUD for maybe 100g of a smokehouse's mac and cheese expecting Southern comfort. It was mushy, bland and tasted like starch and water. Kraft would've been cheaper.

[Anonymous No.17425744]

>>17425734
your own fault for being gullible

[Anonymous No.17425749]

>>17425608
It's not our fault OP posted garbage. If the next thing he posts is good, could be a pretty comfy thread.
But he didn't, so it isn't, and he's a fag.

[Anonymous No.17425761]

>>17425744
In their defense, great smoked wings and ranch. Everything else was pretty shit.

[Anonymous No.17425764]

>>17425749
Sorry you're a tastelet but more for me ¯\_༼ •́ ͜ʖ •̀ ༽_/¯

[Anonymous No.17425822]

>>17425764
>¯\_༼ •́ ͜ʖ •̀ ༽_/¯
i made it green lol

[Anonymous No.17425960]

>>17425693
If you think OP broke the cheese by tossing his shit in the oven for like 30 minutes you've never baked anything in your life. It doesn't even look like he baked it for very long.

[Anonymous No.17425963]

>>17425648
Whatever help you cope, kid. I've never seen that cheese and you haven't either.

[Anonymous No.17426064]

>>17425960
And yet it’s full of grease just like when the cheese splits, funny that isn’t it?

[Anonymous No.17426198]

>>17426064
Cheese doesn't split, retard. It melts or browns under high heat.

[Anonymous No.17426238]

>>17425749
what he posted is good, you dumb monkey

[Anonymous No.17426240]

>>17425599
That's not your recipe. This entire thread is filled with seethe from armchair retards that don't actually cook.

[Anonymous No.17426283]

>>17426198
It literally does split though, as this picture shows and OPs greasy mac.

Also, https://blog.thermoworks.com/sides/game-day-nachos-cheese-melting-temps-2/

>When exposed to high heat—especially for extended periods of time—that’s when the proteins seize up and become firm–squeezing out moisture, then separating.

[Anonymous No.17426302]

>>17426198
you clearly don't know what split means in this context and that's ok, there is always time for learning

[Anonymous No.17426303]

>>17426238
No it's not. Oily mess, only 2 cheeses, and no hard cheese crust. It's basic bitch mac that's only a couple steps above kraft. I'm sure it tasted good, in the same way that white castle tastes good, but really it's not something worth bragging about. He might as well have just posted a grilled cheese sandwich with nothing but cheddar. You and OP need to set your standards higher.

[Anonymous No.17426307]

>>17426198
Microwave grated parmesan then say that again.

[Anonymous No.17426452]

>>17425252
>using turmeric for color instead of saffron
Get a load of this poorfag lmao

[Anonymous No.17426468]

>>17424378
Every grocery store I live by in Utah has Red Leicester

[Anonymous No.17427548]

>>17426468
Funny that you can get British cheese in the us, the only American cheese we can get here in the UK is the processed sliced stuff McDonald’s puts on burgers.

[Anonymous No.17428651]

>>17425963
Not everyone lives in your neck of the woods so don't get bent out of shape just because you cant get more exclusive cheese.

[Anonymous No.17428796]

>>17424353
The amount of disgusting grease in that sloppa overcooked paste is just vile. This looks like typical bongfood.

[Anonymous No.17428895]

>grease
That's the whole reason you use breadcrumbs on top you ingrates. The breadcrumbs absorbs the fats and cooks to a nice crispy out texture.

[Anonymous No.17428940]

>>17428895
I don't think breadcrumbs would have helped OPs greasy mess. Just look at it, it's swimming with grease, you can see grease pockets all around the edges and that's only one side, also the pools floating to the top, just imagine what the other sides look like and the inside. Also the sheen the whole thing has, that's from grease. Mac & Cheese should look like this, and have a completely emulsified sauce. There should be zero grease. OPs problem was probably that he baked it, without using a recipe for baked mac, which contains things like egg to stop this happening. He should have just broiled it.

[Anonymous No.17429792]

>>17428796
>>17428895
>>17428940
are you fags still crying over OP having a little bit of grease in his pasta

[Anonymous No.17429849]

>>17424353
looks like mushy shit.

[Anonymous No.17429861]

>>17425035
if you're going to do it without bachemal, why don't you use pasta water instead of milk?
pasta water has starch from the pasta.

[Anonymous No.17429872]

>>17425960
>tossing his shit in the oven for like 30 minutes
do people actually do this?

this is why I only do stove top mac n cheese, I don't want to wait 30 minutes after I already made a creamy fucking sauce. just to turn the sauce into a stringy oily mess and the make my el dente noodles into mushy.

inb4 >muh crust
you don't fucking notice the fuking crust on top when you scoop it into a bowl.

[Anonymous No.17429880]

>>17426198
>Cheese doesn't split
yes, it does. if you heat cheese to long it will break down

[Anonymous No.17429884]

>>17429792
yeah, I wouldn't even feed OP's shitty mac n cheese to my dog.

[Anonymous No.17429895]

>>17429792
I bet you are OP, crying over the fact your disgusting greasy mac got rejected. You came on here so proud, so overzealous, claiming it was the 'best pasta dish I have ever made', well fuck you if this is your best, i can only imagine what your other results looked like, they must have just been an entire dish of oil with pasta floating in it, because what else could be worse than this greasy shit except even an even more greased up pile of disgusting slop?

[Anonymous No.17429898]

>>17429884
Pretty sure that much cheese would kill a dog.

[Anonymous No.17429902]

>>17429895
Holy kek I just noticed he called it the "best pasta dish I have ever made." That's hilarious and sad.

[Anonymous No.17429914]

>>17429902
this, OP doesn't know what good pasta is.
bet he doesn't even know what carbonara is.

[Anonymous No.17429925]

>>17429898
I wouldn't even feed it to my chickens.

[Anonymous No.17429929]

>>17429895
not reading all of that but no i'm not OP, i just hate elitist faggots like you that cry over the most inconsequential thing about people's food because you don't actually have any valid critique of it. how about you post your food you pathetic tranny?

[Anonymous No.17429973]

>>17429929
>elitist faggots like you that cry over the most inconsequential thing
>you don't actually have any valid critique
kek, you must be blind, OPs picture (which he posted himself and claimed to be the best pasta dish he ever made) is literally full of grease, so how is it not a valid critique? OP posted the picture to get peoples opinions and they told him the truth. It looks like disgusting slop and is full of grease, these are undeniable facts. It's you that's getting all pissy about it and acting like some upset tranny.

[Anonymous No.17429994]

>>17429895
keep seething faggot, I like his mac

[Anonymous No.17430028]

>>17429929
>come to a food board
>post shitty food
>surprised that anons rip you for shitty food.
anon if you didn't want people to shit on your food don't post it here.

[Anonymous No.17430033]

>>17429895
Damn, OP just got analated.

[Anonymous No.17430564]

>>17425366
you'd know being the son of a cockmonger

[Anonymous No.17430604]

>>17430564
Says the son of a cock shop owner like you tranny

[Anonymous No.17431629]

>>17429973
>>17430028
post your food then niggerfaggots

[Anonymous No.17431645]

>>17425366
>t. dick cheese monger

[Anonymous No.17431648]

>>17431629
here u go anon i made this dish just for you