
Remember that for a box of mac to sell at your grocer for $1.75, it has to wholesale at around $0.88. It can’t have a bunch of mess-ups in the name of cost.That’s the goal, to hit the salivary glands like a proper sharp cheddar. Good mac and cheese can have a similar effect - it sounds crazy, but it’s true. Those “flavor crystals” ignite your salivary glands in a way that few foods can.

Aged, sharp cheddar should have pieces of calcium lactate in it. Cheese that hits you in the sharp cheddar pleasure centers.And they occasionally opt for slightly-cheaper-but-trash. I have no idea how much money a brand can save by ditching cheap-but-good noodles for slightly-cheaper-but-trash noodles but I guarantee that the purchasing agents at some of these brands know. Sometimes that means that the noodles are terrible.

Because I have some serious thoughts about what makes a good boxed mac & cheese: I’ll be relying on myself as a resource and you should be damned glad to have me. Who the hell else would do that? What a dork! But I stand by my dorky brag.Īnyway, don’t expect any expert quotes here.
