HOW TO MAKE BAKED MAC AND CHEESE FROM SCRATCH: No Velveeta!

it's 2020 what we're not gonna do we're not gonna keep disrespecting big macaroni and cheese like that we're not gonna keep playing processed cheese and macaroni cheese we're gonna put bro cheese and macaroni and cheese hey what's up you guys my name is crystal and today I'm gonna be showing you how to make my fire baked macaroni and cheese I'm a private chef here in New York City and I try to make this baked macaroni and cheese for my clients I have two other variations of macaroni and cheese that I tend to go for but I usually only make those for my clients who are trying to spend hold you but today we're gonna be making this version of my macaroni and cheese another reason why I don't want to post to to other variations of macaroni cheese that I have is because I want to someday put those in cookbooks but today we're gonna be making this macaroni and cheese I think it's super easy I mean I could be biased because I'm a chef and it's real bacon and cheese I hate hate I hate when I go to someone's barbecue or somebody's cookout or somebody's house with Velveeta cheese it's 20/20 where we're not gonna do we're not gonna keep disrespecting big macaroni and cheese like that we're not gonna keep playing processed cheese and macaroni and cheese we're gonna put grilled cheese macaroni and cheese you got the huge shut up shut up mom mama calm it down so the first thing you want to do is pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees and then you want to put on a pot of boiling water we're not boiling but you want to put on a pot of water and then it's gonna boil just read this process up just cover the pot with a little help the water boil faster and then while that's going you want to get your museum claws together so get your cheese's your flour your milks and your seasonings so when it's time to throw the sauce together you'll be ready to go for this recipe I'm just using sharp cheddar fontina and Gouda and please stretch your own cheese do not buy that stuff in a bag that's already started the cheese that's already started your mac and cheese is not gonna melt nicely if you do that I'm telling you just grade your own cheese I know it's a little bit more more more work and more dishes but it's really worth it and don't ask me why I got this thick ass sweater on in this hot kitchen I don't know but I know that it was hot and I know I should've never had that's what I want so don't come for me now this is what I want to see I want to see the cheese that you strutted and not the cheese at the store strutted whoo that's a tongue twister not the cheese that the store shredded now that the water is boiled what you want to do is salt your water so your pots can have some flavor so that's what I'm doing right here salt in my water and then you want to go ahead and add your pasta and make sure when you add your pasta you stir it a little bit after because the pasta tends to stick together if you just put it in the in the book in the water you're gonna have like clumps of like macaroni so make sure you make sure you stir it so that it doesn't stick together and cook the pasta tillis al dente which means they don't have like a slight bite to it and then once it's finished cooking you want to take it off the heat strain it and rinse it with cold water so it stops the cooking process so now we're gonna make the roux a roux is pretty much equal parts fat in equal parts flour I have this on a medium heat so we're just gonna melt the butter and then we're gonna add in the flour and make sure you whisk this in so that no lumps form go ahead and whisk this for three minutes so that the flour can suck out so start off by adding a little bit of half-and-half to the room so that you don't get any lumps to keep wasting until it gets to it's coming up so it gets to like this texture and you can go ahead and add in the rest of your half-and-half then I just keep on whisking that whisking that and then I go ahead and add the evaporated milk the proper way to make macaroni cheeses that heat up your milk and then add it to the roof but I do what I want and I'm grown so this is what I'm doing after stirring this mixture on and off for about 10 minutes it should start to look something like this I'm like whisking it slowly so you guys can see it so yeah it should look something like this so for this step you want to make sure that the heat is on low and what we're gonna do is we're gonna add most of the cheese but we're gonna save like three tablespoons of Gouda and one 8-ounce block of cheddar and just add all of the cheese in we're gonna save those two cheese's to top the macaroni and cheese with mines kind of stiffened up on me because I was trying to record cook and make sure the angle was good at the same time so bear with me this is gonna come out watch so just keep whisking the sauce I know it's a lot of whisking in here but it's worth it Hey look at the flick of the wrist look at the flick of the wrist I'm breaking right now like I was really putting muscle into this so this is what your sauce should start to look like this one was a little bit too thick for my liking so I added a little bit more half-and-half you can do whatever you want if you want it like super thin like like Kraft macaroni and cheese like the box you can do that but I like mine like semi Kraft but still holds this shape together at the same time now we're finally at black people's favorite part which is seasoning we're gonna season this cheese sauce it's actually called a mornay sauce if you want to be technical but we're gonna season the cheese sauce get your a salt pepper and make sure when you do this step you turn the heat off add in some garlic powder kind of heavy-handed with the garlic powder I mean who isn't if you don't love garlic I don't know what to tell you add in your onion powder and my favorite thing with my favorite spice to cook with which is paprika add that in and then again stir stir stir it's a lot of starting going on here but yeah just stir into your arm falls off your cheese sauce it looks something like this alright okay okay yes look at that yes now it's time to assemble so what you want to do is add in all of your macaroni noodles into a deep dish pan go ahead oh okay now watch this but don't eat the screen so good yeah look at it dripping oh my oh my I gotta get the outside too go ahead and mix that bad boy up you see what I'm working with over here you see we yo oh here right now you definitely gotta bring this to the cookout and show the lady who make her macaroni and cheese with Velveeta that you know how to do it better cuz everybody gonna love this a little bit of cheese sauce left over so we're just gonna pour that over the top because we now wasting full so I see got mac of cheese we're not wasting mac and cheese would you talk about then after that go ahead and flatten it out now go ahead and top the macaroni and cheese with the extra cheese that I told you to save from earlier we're gonna put some Gouda and some cheddar on there and it's gonna be fired okay it's gonna be fire so now we oven ready yes look at this oh my god and yes this is my oven welcome to New York City where everything is super small everything is super expensive don't live here unless you have 3000 or 4000 dollars a month for rent or this is what you're gonna get go ahead and bake that for 45 minutes to an hour and it should come out looking something like this okay look at that Dan you see the crispy edges - oh my god it's another one it's so good so so so good I forgot to film the part where I cut into the macaroni and cheese I only got the picture so I have a picture coming up right now mmm tell me you can't taste that through the screen cuz I could definitely taste that so what we're gonna do is sit here and savor this moment of this beautiful mac and cheese because it is gorgeous and also because I don't have a video but it's all good because mac and cheese still hitting it's still poppin let me know if you guys try this recipe out and thank you so much for watching [Music]

Channel: Kristal Kay Eats

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Id: l9WlcxhF92c

Length: 12min 52sec (772 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 09 2020