PSA: Macaroni noodles with shredded cheese is not "macaroni & cheese"

[shortylickens]

MREs are kind of expensive.

yeah they arent cost effective. they are weight effective.

 

[nakedfrog]

I am not paying for papar at cheese prices I don't tend to care how long it takes me to cook something.
I am marinating shredded pork for five days to make Taiwanese sausage.

LOL
I have to imagine the percentage of potato starch is pretty darned small.
But okay, I guess there's... just barely a point in buying block and shredding it yourself.

Japanese - American brand.

Maruchan - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

I wasn't saying Maruchan is Mexican, I was saying referring to all ramen as Maruchan is allegedly a Mexican thing.

 

[nakedfrog]

The benefit is that you can shred real cheese, so if you want shredded Monterey, Pepper Jack, etc. it's not just the typical moz or cheddar or 4-cheese blend with whatever additives they add in to prevent it from sticking together.

Well, that's a better answer than "I don't want a tiny percentage of potato starch in my cheese" at least
I pretty much only use it on tacos, so that's not particularly relevant to my interests.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Has Cheez chimed in?

 

[sdifox]

LOL
I have to imagine the percentage of potato starch is pretty darned small.
But okay, I guess there's... just barely a point in buying block and shredding it yourself.

I wasn't saying Maruchan is Mexican, I was saying referring to all ramen as Maruchan is allegedly a Mexican thing.

That Maruchan thing is kind of bizarre. Not that I would know what Mexicans call instant noodles.

 

[Torn Mind]

That Maruchan thing is kind of bizarre. Not that I would know what Mexicans call instant noodles.

Maruchan probably jives with the cadence of their language more.

I can tell you they phonetically say Ha-why-anna when saying Hawaiian. When they order Dominos for a Hawaiian pizza.....I've heard it at least once.....

 

[JM Aggie08]

You might want to read the ingredients and then get back to us.

I stand corrected. For a box mix ingredients don't look too bad albeit very heavily processed

Organic Pasta (Organic Wheat Flour), Dried Cheddar Cheese (Cultured Pasteurized Milk, Salt, Non-Animal Enzymes), Whey, Butter, Nonfat Milk, Salt, Sodium Phosphate, Silicon Dioxide (For Anticaking).

We buy this for our toddler. Super tasty, with some additional customizations. About as good as you can get, in terms of ingredients, for a boxed mac.

 

[shortylickens]

Some people eat because they have to, some people eat because they enjoy it.

wait, are we talking about pussy or macaroni?

 

[BudAshes]

Its horse shit and you should be ashamed for liking it. You should be humiliated for baking it.

Seriously, we all know the cheese should come in powdered form

 

[lxskllr]

I buy shredded cheese. Like the frog said, who gives a shit when you're putting it on some nuked tortilla chips or something. I used to always shred my own cheese for everything under the fallacy that it was cheaper than paying someone else to do it. It's pretty much exactly the same price, close enough in quality to commodity block cheese(cause why would you pay for superior texture when you're gonna shred it?), and doesn't require work from me.

 

[Kaido]

Some people eat because they have to, some people eat because they enjoy it.

I've only ever met two people who have horrified me:

1. One person who ate because she had to. Just zero interest in food. It was in the pre-Soylent days. She probably would have been 100% fine on the unflavored Soylent for the rest of her life.

2. Another person who didn't like chocolate. At all. How am I supposed to trust a person who doesn't like CHOCOLATE?! hahaha

 

[nakedfrog]

I've only ever met two people who have horrified me:

1. One person who ate because she had to. Just zero interest in food. It was in the pre-Soylent days. She probably would have been 100% fine on the unflavored Soylent for the rest of her life.

2. Another person who didn't like chocolate. At all. How am I supposed to trust a person who doesn't like CHOCOLATE?! hahaha

I've known more than one person that view eating as a chore, time they could be spending doing something else if it weren't for the biological need.

 

[Torn Mind]

I've only ever met two people who have horrified me:

1. One person who ate because she had to. Just zero interest in food. It was in the pre-Soylent days. She probably would have been 100% fine on the unflavored Soylent for the rest of her life.

2. Another person who didn't like chocolate. At all. How am I supposed to trust a person who doesn't like CHOCOLATE?! hahaha

My mom has no love for chocolate.

Actually, without the sugar and milk, chocolate would be a rather nasty tasting thing. I've eaten the 100% dark stuff.

 

[Scarpozzi]

My wife is allergic to Gluten so she can't have real noodles anymore. Shredded cheese sometimes has additives in it that make her sick, so we typically get blocks of cheese and shred it these days.

I used to make the Paula Dean Recipe for macaroni casserole. It's pretty legit and is made with a lot of eggs, sour cream, butter, and shredded cheese. Because it's a baked casserole and has the eggs and cream, the shredded cheese holds up pretty well and mixes in with the heat/time.

I understand you can't compare that to Velveeta. It was designed to be softer with a lower melting point. It's just that the velveeta and similar types of products can have 1 dimensional flavor as a result. I'm fairly certain my wife can eat Velveeta without issues too, but finding a good pasta to go with it is always a challenge. The GF ones are pretty hit or miss on flavor and texture.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

I've known more than one person that view eating as a chore, time they could be spending doing something else if it weren't for the biological need.

Me. It's a function of necessity. A passtime when bored. Not something fun or enjoyable.

And that part I really hate is what it turns into and how it's expelled.

 

[nakedfrog]

I tend take more of a "well, you've got to eat anyway, you might as well enjoy it" approach. The cooking itself doesn't particularly bother me, nor do I specifically enjoy it, but it's work towards an end that I do enjoy, so that helps.
But I also mostly cook things that only need occasional intervention and/or prep.

 

[WelshBloke]

Me. It's a function of necessity. A passtime when bored. Not something fun or enjoyable.

I absolutely can't understand people who eat purely to get full, or drink purely to get drunk.
I mean life is there to be enjoyed, you should try to take as much pleasure out of life as you can because you're only going to get a limited amount of it!

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Life sucks. It's just a biological function. Eat stuff, process it, crap it out where it fertilizes stuff to eat.

The circle of life.

 

[WelshBloke]

Life sucks. It's just a biological function. Eat stuff, process it, crap it out where it fertilizes stuff to eat.

The circle of life.

Life's great! Some of the biological processes are messy and a lot of fun!

I mean its all you're going to get, don't waste it.

 

[lxskllr]

I'm somewhere in between. I'm absolutely not about putting effort into cooking/eating, but I like good simple food. If it's complicated, I probably won't enjoy it anymore(and likely less) than a good bacon cheeseburger.

 

[WelshBloke]

I'm somewhere in between. I'm absolutely not about putting effort into cooking/eating, but I like good simple food. If it's complicated, I probably won't enjoy it anymore(and likely less) than a good bacon cheeseburger.

I can understand that. Good simple food can be great. A good bacon cheeseburger is a thing of wonder.
I'm not saying that everything needs to take 6 hours of prep time, I'm just saying that you should try to make everything in life as enjoyable as possible.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

pre shredded cheese have cellulose mixed in to make it not cake together.

Most of the time not much however when making a cheese sauce the stuff they put on pre shredded cheese makes it melt funny and strangely clump together.
Pre shredded works it just doesn’t work as well.

 

[MrSquished]

I eat more simple than fancy, but whatever I'm eating, the act of ingesting tasty food is a huge pleasure in life to me. I feel somewhat bad for people who see it as just a necessity, it's something we do every day that stimulates multiple of our senses, to not get pleasure out of it seems like a wasted opportunity to find joy.

 

[brianmanahan]

Seriously, we all know the cheese should come in powdered form

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

What I consider cooking.

Butter in a skillet, add two slices of bread, brown on one side, then flip. Add sauce, shredded cheese, and pepperoni. Cover, reduce heat, let cheese melt.

Instant pizzas.