am i the only person who finds them both appetizing
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Nope. Two different styles of making the same food
So the moral here is get baked on June 19th?
I don't know why I think this way, but the left image looks too hot to eat while the right image looks too cold for it to taste good.
I make it my goal in life to defy the white people can't cook stereotype. My wife's family is the epitome of this, so I'm the designated chef for a lot of our family dinners. My Mac n Cheese is stupid good though.
Freshly grated cheeses (sharp cheddar, gruyere/fontina, smoked gouda, parmigiano reggiano) and a bit of American for that sodium citrate emulsifying power, melted into a piping hot beschemel with Dijon, mustard powder, paprika, a pinch of thyme, and a hit of cayenne. Mix in some drained elbow or penne pasta, cooked to just al dente in well salted water, in a baking dish. Depending on my mood/desire for texture, either top with reserved cheese or some seasoned, buttered, well-crushed Ritz crackers. Bake until browned nicely.
Been making Mac like this for a few years and it is regularly the favorite of the meal. Gotta use a variety of cheeses that give you strong cheesy flavor, creaminess, smokiness and nuttiness. The mustard is also important to cut the richness of the cheese.
Who said that white people can't cook?
French and italian food is generally regarded as good.
The stereotype is usually that the British can't cook.
There's a common stereotype that white Americans don't use seasoning or cook from scratch. And that's not exactly unfounded. I've known plenty that cook this way.
I make it my goal in life to defy the white people can't cook stereotype.
The most delicious way to be a race traitor o7
If there's a race war, I'mma be on the side with the seasoning. Gumbo, bbq, jerk chicken, greens... I'll leave you guys the tuna casseroles and cobb salad.
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White dude here. Growing up, my mom always baked it like the left one. She would drop pieces of bread on top so it would toast up. It’s still the best mac and cheese I’ve had to this day and now I need to make it. RIP mom.
Instead of bread try a layer of grated cheese, and put it under an overhead grill.
Mixture of grated cheese and panko, best of both 🤌
Yes and my Mom would put fried breadcrumbs on top, I think there are these seasoned breadcrumbs from a box and you just fry em up. I really should look into it.
My mom never cooked and my dad didn't either. When I was growing up my oldest sister made Kraft from a box a lot, too bad it sucks nowadays. Kraft use to be so good.
Ugh now I want macaroni and cheese
The left one for sure. If it ain't baked, hit the breaks.
It’s my personal pet peeve when people right breaks when they mean brakes.
I actually didn't know this homophone. Thank you for teaching me something today. I was beginning to think today was a waste but now I am fulfilled.
I’m always here to satisfy you.
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The right one still looks plenty creamy. You could easily just bake it for a bit with some extra cheese and maybe some cracker crumbs on top, and it'd be just as good as the left.
Joke's on you, I prefer cheese soup with noodles.
I fuck with both macs. I will say though, I'm noticing there are no (apparent / obvious) spices/herbs.
Add some raisins, it will be fine.
Just so everyone here knows, these pictures do not need to be mutually exclusive. You can do both.
Huh?
White people can't cook is the joke.
Honestly, seeing what some people call seasoning, they have a point.
It is generally true, due to a bunch of factors. Personally, I've observed 2 factors:
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a lot of culinary tradition was lost by the boomers and their parents due to the advent of mass-produced, packaged food and the Great Depression. A lot of very basic, holistic techniques like making broth, rendering fat, became less common as magazine recipes, refrigeration, and boxed food encouraged discrete "buy x y z for recipe A" instead of having an assortment of preserved veggies/meats, broth, lard from previous days etc, to work with and learn from. I was genuinely confused to find my dad had to teach himself a lot of it in his 20s and my mom never learned.
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Economic/cultural history. A lot of families didn't see making food better as worth sparing any effort or time on. My grandma's boiled veggies and potatoes, no seasoning, and meat fried in a pan, no sesoning, eaten and cleaned up as quickly as possible come to mind.
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