Satchboogie3
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Southern-style mac n cheese is gross. It's a train wreck. First off, macaroni is a garbage pasta. Worse, they always seem to go for the lowest quality and cook the hell out of it so you have this limp rubbery little pathetic tube. Get some real quality short pasta like cavatappi or treccine.
Then the cheese. A quality cheddar is likely the best you'll get with a southern-style or traditional mac n cheese. If there isn't a mix of quality soft and aged cheeses, throw it in the dumpster. Lastly, it needs to be baked to a nice crispy top with some bread topping (my preference is lightly toasted bits of bread, or soft homemade croutons). The worst thing is a limp water mac n cheese with no texture. There's a special place in hell for people who like mac n cheese out of a box.
But even for the well executed pasta and cheese... get it off the Thanksgiving table, it doesn't belong!
Then the cheese. A quality cheddar is likely the best you'll get with a southern-style or traditional mac n cheese. If there isn't a mix of quality soft and aged cheeses, throw it in the dumpster. Lastly, it needs to be baked to a nice crispy top with some bread topping (my preference is lightly toasted bits of bread, or soft homemade croutons). The worst thing is a limp water mac n cheese with no texture. There's a special place in hell for people who like mac n cheese out of a box.
But even for the well executed pasta and cheese... get it off the Thanksgiving table, it doesn't belong!