• @[email protected]
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    68 months ago

    The actual sandwiches that place sells are going to either be shitty (because they don’t care about anything) or amazing (because everything but the sandwiches is an afterthought). There is no in-between.

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    This looks like a joke, a disgruntled employee, or both.

    You can clearly see that there is proper cheese sauce on the macaroni, but then there’s just six nine or ten heat lamp nuked slices of American Cheese* added haphazardly.

    *For anyone lucky enough not to know what that means, imagine cheese whiz solidified and packaged into individually plastic wrapped slices.

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      8 months ago

      Probably a customer not realizing the preparation and complaining that the cheese wasn’t cheesey or as velveeta-ey as they were used to, and malicious compliance ensued.

      Fuck it. Give them more cheese. 👹

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      68 months ago

      American cheese is like when you start making a bechamel from mild cheddar but only soften it some.

      Next step in softness is Velveeta.

      Cheese whiz is three steps.

      The sharpness intensifies each time.

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      48 months ago

      “Oh no! We are almost out of Liquid Cheese Product #3. We don’t even have enough to make this batch of macaroni!”

      “Just make this batch with the rest of the Liquid Cheese Product #3 that we have, then add some slices of Semisolid Cheese Product #2 on top. No one will be able to tell the difference.”

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    The potassium citrate in American cheese helps real cheese melt better. You can achieve the same result with sodium citrate and an immersion blender, but not everyone has easy access to or storage for yet another spice.

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      18 months ago

      makes me wonder if a dash of lemon juice and sea salt might have a tangible effect on meltability

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        Citric acid and sodium citrate are not interchangeable, unfortunately. You could create one from the other with some aqueous baking soda, but it would be best to keep the process seperate from preparing the cheese sauce.

        You can look up the Modernist Cuisine Silky Mac and Cheese recipe for more info.

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          18 months ago

          True, I imagine trying to use cheese as your reaction substrate in that way would result in carbonated cheese sauce :]

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      18 months ago

      I have never had any trouble melting actual cheese though when required. I have no idea what kind of scenario this kind of cheese product would be superior.

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        48 months ago

        Many hard cheeses (think parmesan) and even some cheddar cheese aged for more than 6 months don’t create a silky emulsion without some help.

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    For how small Lemmy is it is incredibly odd to see my “backyard” posted here somewhat often.

    I mean yeah long island has a population in the millions but still…

    (Queens and Brooklyn you’re on long Island, there is no bridge that separates us!!)

    :P

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    18 months ago

    To be fair, it looks like a normal mac and cheese with extra cheese slices melted on top- you can see the sauce when you zoom into the pasta

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    38 months ago

    I don’t know that I’ve ever tried any truly tasty mac & cheese that wasn’t KD. Various restaurants and everyone’s aunt makes this shitty “gourmet” stuff that tastes like cold, soggy noodles and congealed white gravy. People talk about their aunt’s congealed gravy as though it’s a succulent delicacy, but it’s always as terrible as the last batch and is easily upstaged by KD.