...i don't like mac and cheese bakes. I'm so sorry.
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Same. I might be biased because my mom would get the frozen mac&cheese dinner and bake them, and the macaroni was always over done and grossly mushy. The cheese also tasted weirdly grainy.
"I ate a bad version of a dish, so I know I don't like that dish" is how that sounds
That's exactly how it is. If the first 10 times you have baked macaroni and cheese it's awful, you're not going to want to try it again.
I also don't like baked apples because I was violently ill after eating apple crumble once. Same with grape Smirnoff Ice.
Every single time someone tells me they put their heart and soul into something like the left one full of ingredients that sound magic,I take a bite and it's hella mid.
Dickeys BBQ makes the best version of the one on the right of any chain I've been to. Dip waffle fries in it for majesty.
You can absolutely make baked mac like the left and have it be amazing, but I'm with you that most people don't make "proper home made" mac and cheese nearly as well as they think they do, even if the top looks ll delicious like in the pic. Coincidentally, the best mac and cheese I ever made looked like the right, but that was only because people were getting impatient so I decided to skip the baking part.
Baked Mac and cheese is the only Mac and cheese. I miss my mom's so fucking much it's crazy. I can make it, but nobody made it like her.
For the record I like no1 the best.
But what if I told you that you could make no2 in less than ten minutes with only three ingredients?
https://www.seriouseats.com/ingredient-stovetop-mac-and-cheese-recipe
(if you slightly undercook this you could still bake, just add breadcrumbs, sprinkles of some hard cheese, and herbs on top of it and back for about 10 minutes on 180c/350f)
Not sure what a Juneteenth is, but everything is better when gratinated.
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Either way, I prefer Cavatappi over elbow mac if I had a choice in the matter. It holds on to the cheese soooooo well.