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[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

You mean pasta surrogate and cheese surrogate.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The pasta is real, the seasoning is real, the cheese basically is not real.

For example, regular Cheeseburger Hamburger Helper contains trace amounts of blue cheese, which is absent from the Deluxe Cheeseburger Macaroni Hamburger Helper. The “Deluxe” product also contains parmesan cheese, palm oil, and lactic acid. These can all impact the texture and taste of the dish.

In an email to the Daily Dot, an Eagle Foods representative wrote the following: “The difference between the Double Cheeseburger Mac and the Cheeseburger Mac products are that, for the Double Cheeseburger, the ingredient ratios are slightly different and there is double the amount of cheese powder in the seasoning packet.

https://www.dailydot.com/news/regular-deluxe-cheeseburger-hamburger-helper/

Its only 'real cheese' if you consider a dehydrated powder that you have to add butter or milk / water to, and then prepare with heat as a 'cheese flavored sauce' to be 'real cheese'.

Yep, the tiny trace amounts of '100% Real Cheese!' it contains are indeed tiny denydrated crumblets of real cheese... but I am fairly sure that by that metric, Cheetos are also 'real cheese'.

For most Americans under the age of 40, the idea of making an actual cheese sauce out of... an actual block of actual dairy cheese from their refrigerator... that is literally a foreign concept, nobody has time to be that fancy, or even knows that is a thing you can do.

[-] xorollo@leminal.space 0 points 1 month ago

I'm aware you can, but also cheese is expensive.

[-] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago

And making cheese sauce is like, the easiest thing to fuck up. I'm having trouble with an analogy, but it's not easy. If we're talking about a roux based sauce at least. If there's an easier way I would love to know.

[-] notabot@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago
  • Heat a spoonful of butter in a pan.
  • Once it's melted and just sizzling, add about a spoonful of white flour, and stir until you have a smooth paste.
  • Cook the roux until it's slightly darker to give the sauce a richer flavour.
  • Add a spoonful of milk and stir until smooth. This is the critical step, but it works out fine unless you let it burn.
  • Keep adding milk, a spoonful or two at a time, and mixing, until the sauce is quite liquid and you're not having to stir much.
  • Add the rest of the milk a little faster, still stiring.
  • Cook until the sauce is heated through, and bubbling.
  • Add unhealthy amounts of your prefered cheese, grated, and keep stiring.
  • Cook until the sauce starts to thicken and remove from the heat. It'll thicken more as it cools.

It seems like a lot of steps, but once you get the hang of it, it's quick and reliable. The recipies that add flour to a lot if liquid have a tendency to get lumpy, this one cooks the flour in fat first and adds liquid slowly, which pretty much eliminates the issue.

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