How do you make actually good mac n cheese?

And when do they come back from military school?... Kids now want the quick easy packets, hell they'll eat candy over something savory every day of the week.

I was cooking some rib steaks for friends, and some petite sirloins for their kids(8-10) and they literally drank the salad dressing during the 10 minutes it took to cook everything. Insane.

Newsflash: Children are cunts.

Consider a crumb topping before baking, too.

Add sweet sriracha and garlic

Explain vegan cheese to me

Nutritional yeast tastes and feels like cheese when pan cooked with almond/soy milk.

minimalistbaker.com/best-vegan-gluten-free-mac-n-cheese/

Add cinnamon to sriracha or make your own and add garlic and you have yourself the destroyer-of-vagina-tier cooking vegan mac.

>like cheese
Which one?

>>Add cinnamon to sriracha
Sounds like some kind of disgusting slop dreamt up by an intoxicated student with little cooking skill.

Thanks for the explanation
Not a fan of cinnamon but sounds decent

soimilk

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make a roux for the cheese with soft cheese bake it with sharp cheese on top

Nudelauflau^^
Noodle casserole for you yankies :D

of course it is, if you make it properly, from scratch.
the waifu makes a great mac n cheese.
she'll often use end pieces of cheese we have bought, so once it had 7 different cheeses in it.

if you're buying mac and cheese in a box at least buy the Cracker Barrel stuff.

If you're willing to go the whole 9
Make your mac from scratch, don't skimp on the flour (has to be 00, ideally Italian durum)
Make a proper bechamel (infuse milk with a studded onion, nutmeg, and bay) into which you add choice cheeses (one that works wonders is cheddar:comte:scaramorza:roquefort in a ratio of 3:3:2:1) and finish in the oven with a little breadcrumbs and a whole lotta love
Most importantly use good cheese and do as much as possible from scratch

Fgts, listen very well, make your white sauce with half and half instead of milk. Thank me later.

Stop saying waifu, it makes people disregard your opinion.

I have some sodium citrate to try the modernist mac and cheese. Has anyone tried it? I'm worried it will add a shitty sour flavor

It works great.
It doesn't add a sour taste at all--very little of it is needed so you can't taste it.

it's fine. the tiny amount of sourness is balanced by the sugars in the cheese and pasta

sodium citrate is the non-bullshit way to make creamy mac and cheese out of anything. everything else involves carefully blending melting cheeses together to maintain the balance

4 tbl spoon unsalted butter. sweet cream or cultured.

4 tbl spoon all purpose unbleached flour

1 nutmeg nut

black peper

salt

400 ml warm milk

2 cups rotini

1 lb of extra sharp cheddar.

olive oil

salt and olive oil in a pot. fill with water and bring to a roiling boil. put in pasta.

butter in a pan melt over low heat. then add the flour. keep the heat low and dont' stop whisking. you want the roux you are making to have the flour flavor cooked out, but don't let it brown.

then start adding warm milk. cold milk will ruin the texture of the sauce. add it a little at a time and whisk until incorporated. then you add a little more and repeat.

once the milk is incorporated you grind in half or a third of the nutmeg nut. depending on the size of the nut.

throw in the black pepper to taste.

throw in freshly grated extra sharp cheddar. little bits at a time and making sure to fully incorporate the cheese before adding more. keep whisking, or using a silicone spatula. don't let the sauce burn on the bottom. keep that heat low. keep adding cheese until you reach the taste you want. throw in a teaspoon of salt upon sauce completion.

drain your al dente pasta and immediately into the saute pan with the sauce. incorporate.

serve.

>salt and olive oil in a pot. fill with water and bring to a roiling boil. put in pasta.
bait. nobody should put olive oil in a pot with pasta, under any circumstances

youtube.com/watch?v=UYhKDweME3A

Gordon Ramsay thinks you should.

a little oil in the boiling water prevents it from boiling over.

Teriyaki sauce
Hot sauce
Ranch
Maple syrup

Mix in meat of veges as you see fit

Put it in a casserole dish, sprinkle cheese and bread crumbs on top and bake it.

Just think of it as a blank canvas and go from there.

Gordon Ramsay has not yet graduated to tongueing my testicles. He's still on the level of sweeping my dirt trail. Do you really want to take advice from a guy with gnarly old pubes stuck in their nose?

Follow the directions on the box. Top with black pepper.

>Gordon Ramsay thinks you should

That retard thinks you should add binders to hamburger patties as well. Tbf, he probably thought he was making bangers, a british sausage with rusk as a binder, the fucking spoog.

As a non vegan who enjoys his mac and cheese, one of the best ive ever had was with nutritional yeast and pistachio breadcrumbs. Didnt add cinnamon or anything though

don't knock it until you've tried it. I've made it and it was one of the best mac & cheeses I've ever had. ludicrously gooey and cheesy.

>box of kraft mac and cheese
>cook it all and mix the powder in
>shred some real cheese of your choice with it

Nutritional yeast is also amazing on popcorn.