How the hell do you make mac & cheese?
you take a cheese sauce and put cooked macaroni in it, wa la say fin-knee.
>>7899879
You don't
heat milk and butter. coat grated cheddar in corn starch and wisk in a pot over medium heat until smooth. mix with cooked elbow macaroni.
HEAT EQUAL FLOUR + BUTTER
ADD MILK
ADD CHESE
POUR OVER COOK DRAIND NOODLE
>>7899893
Wtf corn starch
>>7899944
Huh?
>>7899944
because you need something to cause the protein strands in the cheese to unfold gracefully so that it doesn't become a clumpy snot soup.
>>7899944
the flour is for thickening/stabilising the sauce, it's called a roux, very common in white sauces.
the cornstarch thickens a bit but is mostly just a stabiliser preventing the cheese from clumping.
cheese likes to split when you cook it.
Not that hard kiddo. All ya gotta do is:
>Bring water to boil in medium saucepan. Add Macaroni; cook 7 to 8 min. or until tender, stirring occasionally.
>Drain. (Do not rinse.) Return macaroni to pan.
>Add margarine, milk and Cheese Sauce Mix; mix well.
Aaaand wa laaa: Ya got yaself some nice Mac & cheese!
>>7900351
>Cheese Sauce Mix
That's yellow cake uranium.
>>7899995
Yep, that's correct.
However if you use a cheese that melts well and doesn't split then you can leave out the roux.
The roux is common because the only cheese Americans know about is cheddar*, and cheddar doesn't melt very well without splitting. Swap that for a cheese that does melt well like gruyere or gouda and the problem is solved.
* in cause you're autistic, yes that was hyperbole.
What sort of starch would be best for someone in a first world country whose government doesn't subsidise corn and it's not in every second product on the shelf?
Tapioca? Rice flour? Plain wheat flour?
>>7900359
Do you want something grainier like roux or smooth like cream?
>>7900365
Cool, thanks
>>7900369
>grainier like roux
Lol, what? Roux should never be grainy. WTF?
>>7900369
Smooth ya dingus
>>7900372
it's not grainy, it has a thicker, more carby texture. I don't know how to describe it properly here. Doesn't matter, I'm done helping.
>>7899879
Ask this guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhvj2ps-jMk
>>7900388
>I'm done helping.
And yet you didn't help one bit.
>>7900409
you don't know what I posted in here, you snide cunt. jesus. fucking people who just want to be cunty anonymously
>>7899879
Alton Brown's stove top recipe is pretty good:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/stove-top-mac-n-cheese-recipe.html
>>7899893
I was just about to give up on this board. Until this post.
Wtf is up with all these pleb food fags?
>>7899879
Make a Mornay sauce with cheeses of your choice.
Add to pasta of your choice cooked al dente
then eat it
or if you want, put cheese and breadcrumbs on top of it in a dish and put it in the oven. though this makes it too dry unless you fill it with liquid
>>7900550
eggs and milk?
i never thought of it that way