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yoonyoon
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Korea (South)1065 Posts
March 16 2011 11:46 GMT
#1
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I get the urge to eat mac n cheese once every few months, buy the boxed kind, eat it, and remember why I don't eat it. So basically, I now have like.. twenty boxes of mac&cheese in my cupboard and I have no idea how to get rid of it.

I've looked up recipes, but I keep on finding recipes that either are about making mac& cheese from scratch or involve baking with an oven(don't have one, not really used with Korean food).

So, yeah.

Anyone have any practical, easy recipes to make boxed mac&cheese actually taste good?
Or should I give up, throw away the cheese sauce, and just use the macaroni 'ㅅ';
daffodil
Profile Joined October 2010
Australia109 Posts
March 16 2011 11:48 GMT
#2
intravenous cheese drips while making macaroni models of all your friends
Mofisto
Profile Joined October 2010
United Kingdom585 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-16 11:52:21
March 16 2011 11:51 GMT
#3
Throw it away and cook some proper pasta?

Add some sauce, shitloads of pepper, maybe some basil. But yeah, i'd just throw the cheese sauce away and add your own
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Maynarde
Profile Joined September 2010
Australia1286 Posts
March 16 2011 11:54 GMT
#4
Make your own cheese sauce by melting down some sharp tasting cheese, then pour beer in it while it's boiling. Don't knock it till you've tried it.
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Jesushooves
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada553 Posts
March 16 2011 11:57 GMT
#5
Kraft Dinner will never be as awesome as proper macaroni and real, grated cheese.

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streetclam
Profile Joined January 2010
Australia92 Posts
March 16 2011 11:58 GMT
#6
Donate it all to the homeless. You can't make it taste good.
Mofisto
Profile Joined October 2010
United Kingdom585 Posts
March 16 2011 11:58 GMT
#7
On March 16 2011 20:54 Maynarde wrote:
Make your own cheese sauce by melting down some sharp tasting cheese, then pour beer in it while it's boiling. Don't knock it till you've tried it.



You crazy australians. In all seriousness though this does taste amazing

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Souma
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts
March 16 2011 12:02 GMT
#8
If you just want to make it taste good without having to make your own recipe, just dice up some spam into little blocks, fry 'em and then toss 'em into the mac'n'cheese right after the mac'n'cheese is done. Tastes great if you like spam. If you don't, then you can do bacon I suppose.

Hell, use both. ^^
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mockturtle
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States220 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-16 12:06:58
March 16 2011 12:05 GMT
#9
-use butter, not margarine or oil
-try fresh ground pepper
-try fried sliced up pieces of hot dog and then mix it in when you add the cheese sauce(can use fancy sausage rather than the hot dog if you're a baller,)
-try bacon
-add some sriracha and stir it up during the cheese sauce face

try diff combinations of this. i wouldn't use black pepper+sriracha for example
badboymav
Profile Joined June 2010
Australia74 Posts
March 16 2011 12:06 GMT
#10
lol Easy Mac in the box is awesome, come home drunk or smashed, nuke it and BAM epic cheese food :D
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Greg_J
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
China4409 Posts
March 16 2011 12:07 GMT
#11
yeah just poor real ingrediants in and it will be fine some meat, some mushrooms, prooper chesse. I really like BBQ sauce with cheesy pasta but I'm fairly certain thats just me. Everyone I've said that to has looked at me with disgust and then not talked to me for a couple of days.
kdgns
Profile Joined May 2009
United States2427 Posts
March 16 2011 12:12 GMT
#12
depends on why you don't like it, if its the cheese you find horrible you can attempt to change the flavor by adding in other cheeses and sauces, if its the texture of the mac I suggest mixing in other pasta and adding in meats of your choice. Either way you're gonna have to work to make it usable, and in the end it boils down to making otherwise tasty food mediocre to make your unappetizing mac and cheese eatable, its your call if you want to do that.
vileChAnCe
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Canada525 Posts
March 16 2011 12:19 GMT
#13
You have 20 boxes of shit you don't like but are willing to spice it up, I would experiment man! If you don't like how it turns out you've wasted nothing!
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trynet
Profile Joined August 2010
United States37 Posts
March 16 2011 12:22 GMT
#14
Pour hot sauce on it after cooking, specifically tobasco. Only way I'm able to eat the stuff anymore.
couches
Profile Joined November 2010
618 Posts
March 16 2011 15:02 GMT
#15
This is oen of those foods that you remember being awesome from your childhood. But upon trying it again you realize how disgusting it is after the first bite. I fall for this trap once in a while and it sucks. Makes you wonder if it was really that bad all along. At least you can salvage the pasta from all those boxes.


On March 16 2011 20:54 Maynarde wrote:
Make your own cheese sauce by melting down some sharp tasting cheese, then pour beer in it while it's boiling. Don't knock it till you've tried it.

This is really damn good with soft pretzels.
staxringold
Profile Joined October 2010
United States173 Posts
March 16 2011 15:23 GMT
#16
Spices make the world go round. Garlic, chili powder, pepper, etc, etc.
Cel.erity
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States4890 Posts
March 16 2011 15:36 GMT
#17
I guess I don't understand why you think it tastes bad, I love the stuff. Honestly though the pasta is low quality, but it's still pasta. Just cook it like you would any other pasta and add red sauce or whatever you like. You don't have to use the cheese powder.
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MangoTango
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States3670 Posts
March 16 2011 15:39 GMT
#18
The real question is why did you buy 20 boxes of Easy Mac?
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Chairman Ray
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States11903 Posts
March 16 2011 15:40 GMT
#19
I like to reduce the cheese and the macaroni by about 100% each, and then add a steak to it. Tastes great!

In other words, you can make mac and cheese less bad, but make it good would be very difficult. Best mac and cheese I made was by baking it after it was done boiling.
yoonyoon
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Korea (South)1065 Posts
March 16 2011 16:32 GMT
#20
On March 17 2011 00:39 MangoTango wrote:
The real question is why did you buy 20 boxes of Easy Mac?

.....I went to Costco...
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