so I browned the butter for my KD and it tasted and looked exponentially better
is there anything else I can do to it to make it even more good/different without costing much or anything?
it'd be nice if I could make this garbage almost entirely unrecognizable/gourmet so I can feed it to other people for CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP
use real cheese
>>7660232
This. It makes all the difference. I like to melt in some blue cheese, gives it a nice smokiness.
You can't really make box mac and cheese unrecognizeable. Either embrace it and doctor it a little, or don't eat it at all.
>Kraft changed the recipe and it tastes like hot garbage
>Loblaw's had a stash of the old KD and sold it under their store brands but they've long since run out
Just drown it in hotsauce, the burning will distract you from the sadness.
>>7660214
I've browned some onion and ham and added it to it and it makes it delicious
Don't forget the tabasco or whatever kind of hot sauce you got laying around
>>7660214
>KD
is this some new reddit emoticon?
Dry mustard and nutrmeg.
A bit of lemon juice too, or some other acid.
>>7660237
they substituted tartrazine/Yellow #5 with spices such as paprika, turmeric, and annatto
which has seemed to reduced flavor
it makes me wonder if theres something more you can add to substitute for the loss of tartrazine
>>7660255
Does tartrazine have any flavour?
>>7660262
well obviously it would because its the only thing they've changed
>>7660278
That must be another, more recent change because they sure as hell changed the noodle when they changed the cheese.
>>7660282
tartazine is the only part of the orange cheese powder that they've changed
Make taco ground beef white trash way. Like brown half a pound of ground beef, add the taco seasoning, add the water, simmer it until thickened. Mix that with your box of KD. Taco mac n cheese. It's so easy and makes it's way on to the red carpet so hastily after this addition. Just try it. Other wise you will not know what you are missing. Thank you
>>7660577
Here I add the recipe for you all! Enjoy!
http://www.food.com/recipe/tex-mex-kraft-dinner-223588
Add an egg
>>7660214
A bit of sugar or...peanut butter.
>>7660214
>>7660214
>use real cheese
>add meat and vegetables (bacon and onion diced up is always nice
>add sauces/spices/flavours. BBQ sauce, ranch, sriracha anything goes well with KD. mix it through. Takes like 30sec to make your own teriyaki sauce, try that.
>cook on the stove, tastes better than microwave
>dont eat KD as the main dish. box and freeze half of it and make it a sidedish to something, like some meat or vegetables or something
>>7660214
Literaly WHAT.
>Not buying pasta/macaroni/whateverthefuck and buying actual cheese.
>Not throwing pasta/macaroni/whateverthefuck into salted boiling water and putting it on a plate when it's done.
>Not adding butter/oil, spices and herbs to it and shredding actual cheese onto it and mixing it.
>Or actually cooking it in any other way there is.
you're never going to make it unrecognizable because the noodle quality is pretty crappy
I just made a box thanks to this thread and I used browned butter. it was my first time browning butter so I went a bit lighter than what most people probably do, but I went until it smelled nutty
pretty fantastic. the way I've been improving kraft mac is by doing 3 tablespoons of milk rather than 4 and then making up for it by adding a spoonful or two of sour cream. I did both browned butter and added sour cream, and I think that'll be my new go-to for sprucing up mac and cheese
>>7662307
>because the noodle quality is pretty crappy
I weighed the noodles in a box of KD with my kitchen scale, and then used that to measure out Barilla brand. Then I prepared theme exactly like the directions.
A noticeable improvement in quality, but the cheese packet just isn't the same anymore.
>>7660214
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOZYESQVHxs
>>7660214
Use sour cream instead of both milk and butter. Just use sour cream. And real cheese if that's not too costly for you.
>>7661227
It really is actually good tasting for what it is
Bake it
