OK I’m not going to create a “Drunk, Stoned, Hungry, and Jewish” thread.
But when I saw the manager specials as I was walking by the meat counter I noticed these and thought “I’ve never tried these before. I’m curious.”
Introducing the competitors:
And they’re bargain basement prices:
Interesting enough all three of them take 3 1/2 minutes to make, and all have the same calorie count.
There must be a regulatory Pseudo-Mac-N-NotReallyCheese Council. They also obviously have no objection to them misusing the word nutrition on the label.
First up, Kraft.
As I’m adding the powder, all I can do is revel in the flood of memories, from my youth, of mom cooking, of how this is so eerily similar to the home cooking of my mother and grandmother. Yes, so reminiscent lol. (Sarcasm, people, all we had were home cooked meals).
Yeah, if this is “the cheesiest” I’m in real trouble here. It kind of tastes like cheese. I like that the noodles came out al dente. Those test kitchen chefs really worked overtime to make sure that happened.
NEXT, Chef Karlin Fast Mac.
Firstly, opening up the container there are these little powdery floaties in there. I had to make sure they weren’t some kind of bugs. Reading the label it says not to remove these things that it helps the cooking process. Hmm. There was a very offputting smell. Here’s after the water was added:
Chef Karlin? I think they meant to spell it Carlin as in George Carlin, because this stuff was really a joke.
After mixing in the “cheese” powder, it looked more like soup. But I trust the instructions that it would thicken if I just let it sit for 60 seconds. The man that smell, it smelled like stale cardboard and a splash of vinegar.
Yeah, after waiting the appropriate time, it thickened a little bit, but it was awful. Again however the noodles were al dente.
Lastly is Velveeta.
Theirs is different in that it comes with a pouch filled with their delicious petroleum and mystery ingredient NotCheeseFood-like stuff.
So this was the most Mac-N-Cheese looking of all of the entries.
It was… Edible. Good call on the shells. I think I would’ve preferred it a little less loose. Maybe using a touch less water than they recommend.
FINAL VERDICT:
Surprisingly, the Kraft tasted more like cheese then the other two. So I would have to say, that the Kraft Mac N Cheese sucked the least.
Glad I only took 1-2 bites of each. No telling what it’ll do to my gizzards.
But now I can be sure that after all these years of never having the stuff, I wasn’t missing a thing.
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