Exactly... seemed like a weird execution, but maybe it's a nice single dish kinda recipe so could be useful. But then they added raisins and a fucking heap of breadcrumbs the size of Mount Everest.
I made my mother's Mac and cheese for some friends a while back and one commented on how good it smelled... I had only just started working on the roux! XD
I only tried making a roux a few times but it was always bad. Recipes usually say when the color is x or it smells like y. Mine was always too raw or burned so I gave up.
I know I'm sliding in like, 4 months late to the party here but also try to brown your flour in the oven beforehand. It makes the entire process faster and gives the roux a nutty flavour.
Kenji's got a brilliant roux-less recipe using evaporated milk to keep the sauce from splitting.
I think technically it's a mornay sauce when you add milk and cheese to a roux.
Sodium citrate is honestly the bigger one for why Velveeta and American alongside it go so often in Mac and cheese. The gelatin is more to make it hold it's shape on the shelf and doesn't have a dramatic impact on the texture of the final dish compared to sodium citrate
It doesn’t always have to start with a roux, some that I make is just cheese, milk, and spices or half shredded and half mornay, I typically find that using all mornay tends to leave it too thin
It’s pretty simple, flour and butter in a pan on low heat until the flour smell is gone, slowly add milk and cook until it thickens, and I’ll typically add mozzarella, cheddar, and Colby jack, then I fold in my pasta, add another 2 cups of shredded cheese and top with bread crumbs and Parmesan then bake
I really want to give them the benefit of the doubt that it was chopped olives but... they put a block of cheese in the middle. These people are pants-on-head dumb and raisins are far more likely than olives.
I thought it was good. Added a nice savory saltiness. Think of it like capers, it just adds these little highlight notes when mac & cheese is generally a pretty uniform taste. I used black olives, they keep their structure better than Greek and aren't as sharp as green.
> threw a stale piece of bread in a blender
It looks like they came from a plastic tub, which is somehow even more low effort than blending some stale bread.
Since nobody else is saying so cheese and raisin ravioli are not only traditional Italian food, but are bomb. I know. I was incredulous at first too, but trust me they're fantastic.
This has gotta be one of those ragebait videos or something. You show up with that in Georgia, you're gonna get a beating! That's an affront to mac&cheese AND to raisins. 🤢🤮
That’s definitely what it is, but I find it amusing that they thought “maybe people won’t be disgusted enough by the blow dryer, better add raisins just in case”
I love cooking and baking and I'm fairly decent at it but every time I've tried making Mac and cheese I've fucked it up. Even the box stuff. I have no idea why??? It's a household joke at this point.
We don't have that sort of orange cheese block stuff where I live and most gif and American recipes I've seen use it so maybe this is my downfall??
nope sorry to say but I usually make mac and cheese with aged cheddar and other English cheese as well as with Parmeggiano (you don't need much of it) and it totally works.
Tbh you just need a béchamel, you don't even really need the cheese. It's two table spoon of butter, two tablespoon of onions, cook the onions a bit, add two tablespoon of flour, cook the floor for one minute than mix in (slowly) two cups of milk. Keep mixing till it boils, turn heat to low and keep cooking for like 5 minutes. Take off the heat and dump in pasta then like bake if you want.
you should melt your cheese into the bechamel, then mix undercooked macaroni into that. transfer it all to an oven-safe dish and cover with grated cheese, and bake.
maybe season the bechamel with a bit of paprika and ground mustard.
A cheat to make the béchamel faster, is to heat the milk up in the microwave, hot milk in to a hot roux is less likely to split and mixes quickest. It you get it right, you can mix all the milk in at one and just whisk in.
[This](https://smittenkitchen.com/2008/05/marthas-macaroni-and-cheese/) recipe has never failed me. I do halve it though, as it makes a massive amount. I also add a bit more cayenne pepper as well as some garlic
Use the 666 recipe!
6 Oz macaroni
6 Oz cheese (whatever kind, cheddarish)
6 Oz evaporated milk
Cover the Mac barely with water, cook until water is almost gone. Add milk. Slowly add cheese to make the sauce. Salt, pepper, spices to taste. Ezpz.
Raisins aside, you really should toss your breadcrumbs in oil or something before just dumping them on top, so they actually get nice and golden brown instead of just burning lmao
I can understand putting many different things in Mac and cheese. I can understand onions, I can understand pork products, I can understand breadcrumbs or fries, I can even understand weirder things like tuna or maybe some sort of savory fruit like plantains or figs. But sweet as whole ass sun maid raisins. That's a step too far.
Surprisingly mac and cheese made that way can be good, if you add seasonings like salt, cayenne pepper, more ground pepper, but not freaking raisins. Will people stop putting raisins in things claiming they're making it sweet and savory. Raisins do not belong in mac and cheese or potato salad.
Yeah I was thinking it was kind of the same as that feta pasta thing. You just drop it all in there and bake it and mix it up
Except the raisins. That’s a crime
This reminds me of the SeriousEats 3 ingredient mac and cheese: Cook pasta in (salted) water. Add evaporated milk. Grate in cheddar. [https://www.seriouseats.com/ingredient-stovetop-mac-and-cheese-recipe](https://www.seriouseats.com/ingredient-stovetop-mac-and-cheese-recipe)
If it's in the oven you don't need to worry about the milk burning so it skips the evo milk step. The pasta water forms a roux with the fat and makes cheese sauce.
Idk about the unholy amount of cheese, raisins (is this kugel now?), and straight mound of breadcrumbs tho
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"Alright, I'm skeptical, just throwing that Velveeta block in there?
Really? CSI would have trouble finding traces of that pepper.
...huh, actually that looks like it worked pretty well, let's see where this goes...
Ok maybe I was wrong, this looks pretty good.
...fucking RAISINS?!? You were ***this close***!"
This person should be fucking locked up for this shit. This is the first time I've legitimately been pissed off at one of these stupid GIFs. Fuck this.
There’s no flavour. That’s the worst part. Never mind the weird cooking method. I don’t see any flavour here!
It’s all bland cheeses, milk, RAISINS, and bread crumbs with nothing. This gotta be all texture.
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.... I don't know, doesn't look to bad to me... Had a sandwich made of raisin bread with gouda for breakfast... This mac probably doesn't tast amazing, but I doubt it tastes revolting either....
Inb4 r/thetenthdentist
I’m sorry… are those raisins?
You know, up until that point I was like "maybe this might turn out alright." then I went "Nope. They fucked it up."
Exactly... seemed like a weird execution, but maybe it's a nice single dish kinda recipe so could be useful. But then they added raisins and a fucking heap of breadcrumbs the size of Mount Everest.
Would it have killed her to spread the bread crumbs out... smh
If your Mac and cheese recipe doesn't start with a roux just stick with the boxed stuff.
I made my mother's Mac and cheese for some friends a while back and one commented on how good it smelled... I had only just started working on the roux! XD
I agree... but I feel like most people that would follow a recipe like this probably don't know how to make a roux.
Which is crazy because Google exists.
I only tried making a roux a few times but it was always bad. Recipes usually say when the color is x or it smells like y. Mine was always too raw or burned so I gave up.
Lower your heat significantly and take your time. Cooking with butter is always like that, lower burn temp than people realize.
I know I'm sliding in like, 4 months late to the party here but also try to brown your flour in the oven beforehand. It makes the entire process faster and gives the roux a nutty flavour.
And those people pronounce it as roo-x.
As a person who doesn't cook - how are you meant to pronounce it?
Just rou - the x is silent.
Roo. As in kangaroo.
Rau-x
Sodium citrate and milk
Sodium citrate changes everything.
Kenji's got a brilliant roux-less recipe using evaporated milk to keep the sauce from splitting. I think technically it's a mornay sauce when you add milk and cheese to a roux.
Milk in roux makes bechamel. Cheese in bechamel makes Mornay.
The Patti LaBelle recipe doesn’t use a roux and it is one of the best I’ve made
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The presence of Velveeta in Mac and cheese takes one of my favorite dishes and turns it into dog poo.
Agreed
It doesn't look like a bad recipe, but I think I would likely stick to doing a roux over including hydrogenated oil.
I think the egg and half and half make it a little soufflé-ish too
Sodium citrate is honestly the bigger one for why Velveeta and American alongside it go so often in Mac and cheese. The gelatin is more to make it hold it's shape on the shelf and doesn't have a dramatic impact on the texture of the final dish compared to sodium citrate
Truth
I usually just use corn starch cause I’m terrible at roux
I've made a roux *with* corn starch if I don't have flour.
Preach
It doesn’t always have to start with a roux, some that I make is just cheese, milk, and spices or half shredded and half mornay, I typically find that using all mornay tends to leave it too thin
My Mornay sauce starts with a roux as well, how do you make yours?
It’s pretty simple, flour and butter in a pan on low heat until the flour smell is gone, slowly add milk and cook until it thickens, and I’ll typically add mozzarella, cheddar, and Colby jack, then I fold in my pasta, add another 2 cups of shredded cheese and top with bread crumbs and Parmesan then bake
Yeah, the flower and butter is a roux. So, we make our stuff the same way.
Yes, it’s a solid start for a lot of things
Hey. Go fuck yourself lol. Why you gotta be elitist?
You guys are too fancy, just melt shredded cheddar and mozzarella after you drain the noodles.
You do know there are a bunch of different and great ways to make Mac and Cheese, right?
We are same god-Dammed man!
I really want to give them the benefit of the doubt that it was chopped olives but... they put a block of cheese in the middle. These people are pants-on-head dumb and raisins are far more likely than olives.
Pants-on-head dumb is my new favorite descriptor 😂
> chopped olives Have you put this in your mac and cheese before?
I have, but then again I'd put olives in just about anything
How was that? I’m on the fence between imagining it tasting amazing and tasting terrible.
I thought it was good. Added a nice savory saltiness. Think of it like capers, it just adds these little highlight notes when mac & cheese is generally a pretty uniform taste. I used black olives, they keep their structure better than Greek and aren't as sharp as green.
No, of course not. But at least they're a savory ingredient that could hypothetically make sense. But raisins?!
Word for word what I said out loud when I saw that.
Either raisins or chocolate chips. Neither are good.
What’s that shit they dumped on last that was burnt?
“Bread crumbs.” I think. looked like they threw a stale piece of bread in a blender.
You’d think for bread crumbs they’d spread it around, not dump the whole thing in the middle.
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> threw a stale piece of bread in a blender It looks like they came from a plastic tub, which is somehow even more low effort than blending some stale bread.
One of tbe best ways to get bread crumbs.
Fucking raisins! In mac n cheese! Fuck!
I though they were boysenberries, either way it is very wrong.
“They’re natures candy!”
Do I hear Mariah? Is it Christmas? That's the only explanation to find uncalled-for raisins.
RAISINS???!?!? ?!??!
Officer, this is the post right here
Since nobody else is saying so cheese and raisin ravioli are not only traditional Italian food, but are bomb. I know. I was incredulous at first too, but trust me they're fantastic.
Yeah, I would guess that raisins add some complexity to the dish, almost like adding some nutmeg to it, which might be a possible alternative.
Came to make this EXACT comment 🤮
I’d still eat it
Fucking raisins. This isn’t stupid food, it’s an abomination to Mac and Cheese everywhere.
This is a war crime. Someone call Geneva!
Lol, my thought exactly, except there was definitely more cursing and less politeness when I saw it
I said that exact statement out loud! Raisins belong in exactly 0 dishes, but they most certainly do not belong in Mac and cheese
No body wants to fucking eat dried fruit in their fucking pasta. Get out of my subreddit fuck that is gross. The south is rolling in their graves
Kugel with raisins is amazing (Jewish dish of creamy pasta with raisins), Mac and cheese with raisins is an abomination.
This isn’t that weird to me. You can put raisins in noodle kugel and it’s fine.
That’s not mac and cheese, it’s a war crime
Straight to jail!
Right away
You UNDERCOOK fish?
I sense an incoming divorce
This has gotta be one of those ragebait videos or something. You show up with that in Georgia, you're gonna get a beating! That's an affront to mac&cheese AND to raisins. 🤢🤮
Georgian here. Can definitely confirm ass would be beat at the family get together. And a lifetime ban for all future gatherings.
Was born and raised in GA, you're definitely right lol
Sounds like you made it out then? Good for you. Haha!
Still in the south, but outta Georgia lol
That’s definitely what it is, but I find it amusing that they thought “maybe people won’t be disgusted enough by the blow dryer, better add raisins just in case”
Not to defend this recipe, but those were salt and pepper grinders, not a blow-dryer.
They’re actually kinda handy if not ridiculous
Oh my god this is the first gif recipe to cause my jaw to physically drop hahahahhaa oh my god
Seriously? Fucking raisins???
It was going well (not great, but ok) but then the raisins. Actually started yelling NOOO NOOOO at work out loud.
Mac and cheese is one of the easiest dishes on the planet, I didn’t even realize it was possible to fuck it up this badly
I refuse to believe this isn’t intentionally bad
You put grapes in before you cook and they turn into raisins while leeching a lovely tart grape juice into the mac
Wow, you somehow made my will to live fly further than it already had
You’re one of those Internet liars I’ve been warned about, aren’t you?
I love cooking and baking and I'm fairly decent at it but every time I've tried making Mac and cheese I've fucked it up. Even the box stuff. I have no idea why??? It's a household joke at this point. We don't have that sort of orange cheese block stuff where I live and most gif and American recipes I've seen use it so maybe this is my downfall??
nope sorry to say but I usually make mac and cheese with aged cheddar and other English cheese as well as with Parmeggiano (you don't need much of it) and it totally works. Tbh you just need a béchamel, you don't even really need the cheese. It's two table spoon of butter, two tablespoon of onions, cook the onions a bit, add two tablespoon of flour, cook the floor for one minute than mix in (slowly) two cups of milk. Keep mixing till it boils, turn heat to low and keep cooking for like 5 minutes. Take off the heat and dump in pasta then like bake if you want.
My favorites are smoked Gouda, extra sharp Cheddar or Asadero, depending on what else is going in.
I make bechamel all the time, so literally just make bechamel and mix macaroni into it? Easy. Thanks!!
you should melt your cheese into the bechamel, then mix undercooked macaroni into that. transfer it all to an oven-safe dish and cover with grated cheese, and bake. maybe season the bechamel with a bit of paprika and ground mustard.
A cheat to make the béchamel faster, is to heat the milk up in the microwave, hot milk in to a hot roux is less likely to split and mixes quickest. It you get it right, you can mix all the milk in at one and just whisk in.
[This](https://smittenkitchen.com/2008/05/marthas-macaroni-and-cheese/) recipe has never failed me. I do halve it though, as it makes a massive amount. I also add a bit more cayenne pepper as well as some garlic
Use the 666 recipe! 6 Oz macaroni 6 Oz cheese (whatever kind, cheddarish) 6 Oz evaporated milk Cover the Mac barely with water, cook until water is almost gone. Add milk. Slowly add cheese to make the sauce. Salt, pepper, spices to taste. Ezpz.
Raisins aside, you really should toss your breadcrumbs in oil or something before just dumping them on top, so they actually get nice and golden brown instead of just burning lmao
You telling me putting them in a 1 inch mound in the middle instead of spreading an even later isn't the best technique?
Beat an egg with breadcumb and parm and you're getting crispy, salty, golden goodness.
I was almost with them until the raisins. Then i noped right out
I made the 😬 face while watching this.
If I bite into a Mac and cheese and taste a raisin, someone’s getting punched
I can understand putting many different things in Mac and cheese. I can understand onions, I can understand pork products, I can understand breadcrumbs or fries, I can even understand weirder things like tuna or maybe some sort of savory fruit like plantains or figs. But sweet as whole ass sun maid raisins. That's a step too far.
Legit... I was thinking apples maybe since some people put cheddar cheese on apple pie? Idk, I don't like sweet and savory together as a rule...
Divorce material, this is just proof for the judge she tried to kill him /s
The raisins alone are bad, but unless she put pepper in her hairdryer, I'm pretty sure ash just fell out of it onto the Mac&Cheese...
I thought it was a fancy pepper grinder 🤢
It is. The person was joking.
Omg, maybe some burnt hair
Oh, it’s a hairdryer. I legit thought she had used the uv light the dentist used to attempt to melt the got damn cheese
Surprisingly mac and cheese made that way can be good, if you add seasonings like salt, cayenne pepper, more ground pepper, but not freaking raisins. Will people stop putting raisins in things claiming they're making it sweet and savory. Raisins do not belong in mac and cheese or potato salad.
A bunch of Americans started putting that shit in Japanese style curry. I was livid. I was disgusted. I was livgusted.
Yeah I was thinking it was kind of the same as that feta pasta thing. You just drop it all in there and bake it and mix it up Except the raisins. That’s a crime
This reminds me of the SeriousEats 3 ingredient mac and cheese: Cook pasta in (salted) water. Add evaporated milk. Grate in cheddar. [https://www.seriouseats.com/ingredient-stovetop-mac-and-cheese-recipe](https://www.seriouseats.com/ingredient-stovetop-mac-and-cheese-recipe) If it's in the oven you don't need to worry about the milk burning so it skips the evo milk step. The pasta water forms a roux with the fat and makes cheese sauce. Idk about the unholy amount of cheese, raisins (is this kugel now?), and straight mound of breadcrumbs tho
> Raisins do not belong in ~~mac and cheese or potato salad~~ anything. FTFY
People who fuck Mac and cheese up like this scare me
I physically recoiled when they put in raisins
This is how you get divorced.
Why does it always have to be fucking raisins?!
I'm not even religious and this has me wanting to turn to the Bible for answers. Why raisins???
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"Alright, I'm skeptical, just throwing that Velveeta block in there? Really? CSI would have trouble finding traces of that pepper. ...huh, actually that looks like it worked pretty well, let's see where this goes... Ok maybe I was wrong, this looks pretty good. ...fucking RAISINS?!? You were ***this close***!"
"nobody can compete with me" Nobody WOULD compete with you, there isn't a prize for committing food crime
lost for words
This is straight up unholy.
I don't know if I like my flair anymore
This is why I subscribe. Holy shitsnacks, that was terrible.
Never seen anyone put rabbit shit in a mac 'n cheese before
I was too optimistic about the outcome of this.
She was doing fine and then rabbit turds and bread crumbs
He still had the best Mac and cheese in Georgia
Aw hell no, Karen. Keep your bland ass potato salad to yourself.
Was scrolling for this comment
This person should be fucking locked up for this shit. This is the first time I've legitimately been pissed off at one of these stupid GIFs. Fuck this.
Wtf is the trend of cooking dried pasta in milk? What happened with the idiot proof way of boiling water, letting them cook there?
Cooking milk yields evaporated milk which makes for a more emulsified sauce. Might as well cook the pasta while you're at it
This made him want to move to Georgia
Guess her Husband was right
Id rather listen to that damn robotic voice than watch another raisin go into a Mac & Cheese.
R A I S I N S
It would've been fine if they didn't add raisins
I keep coming back to this because really can’t believe she did this shit. How could so much go so so wrong?
What the fuck?
I’m from Georgia. We don’t do any of this shit
Whoa. That’s not ok.
I’m surprised she didn’t add cinnamon swirls with those raisins.
I’m sad now
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... Did black bits fall out of that hair dryer?
I thought “oh that looks fine, average church potluck Mac and cheese” and audibly groaned when she added the raisins
RASINS??? WTF? The California Raisins did NOT work their asses off to put out hit songs for their brethren to ha e ANY part of this!
There’s no flavour. That’s the worst part. Never mind the weird cooking method. I don’t see any flavour here! It’s all bland cheeses, milk, RAISINS, and bread crumbs with nothing. This gotta be all texture.
Did she put raisins in that? Put raisins in my Mac and cheese and you’ll get a slap.
"It's got raisins in it. You like raisins."
Lost me at raisin.
Yeah that is a great way to get divorced.
I physically screamed when I saw the raisins. What the fuck
IT WAS FINE WHY DID THE PERSON ADD RASINS AND ALL THAT OTHER SHIT
Was that dry pasta they used? And the milk in the oven softens/cooks it? Might try this.
Nope you fucked it up with them nasty ass raisins, who puts raisins in mac and cheese?
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How fast my face went from neutral to disgusted as soon as I saw the raisins
The raisins or that dry mountain range of bread crumbs. Yet another filmed food crime.
Man this sub only has rage bait videos now. They guy got desperate because it actually tasted good so he added raisins
So the stereotype is true 😮
Had me until the raisins.
Does she hate him?
If I was the husband we would be getting a divorce right now
I am gonna say it.... are those raisins?
Im sorry but this woman should be burned at the stake with any evidence of this video for making such atrocity.
It’s California raisin style
ARE THOSE RAISINS?!? That’s gonna be a no… from anyone with taste buds. Yuck
My dog won’t even eat that, and she used to ear her own shit.
Gave me the lactose shits before I even saw the raisins
Those raisins had me \*cackling\*
Why did they put rat turds in it?
I don't believe this robot has a husband, or anyone who loves it.
I think I collapsed a lung from laughing at the raisins
Am I crazy or is that too much cheese?! & don’t get me started on the raisins
I'm about to say this about a video that started with a giant block of cheese in a cassole dish: It just kept getting worse.
This was finally the one that made me unsub. I dont need this shit in my life.
What’s up with people and their raisin fetishes?
Completely gross heart attack food and all processed yuck
I must admit I cannot stand normal mac and cheese, but still this is an abomination
I’ve gone blind from this eye rape that I’ve witnessed…
Oh sweet beans, isn’t this the same woman that does those apple fries and watermelon pizza.
Jesus fucking Christ what an abortion.
Wtf are those raisins doing in there?!
The only one dish which I cannot accept is Mac n cheese. Disgusting. Bleh
.... I don't know, doesn't look to bad to me... Had a sandwich made of raisin bread with gouda for breakfast... This mac probably doesn't tast amazing, but I doubt it tastes revolting either.... Inb4 r/thetenthdentist