Mac and cheese is one of the most classic comfort foods out there. As children, we grow up eating the boxed versions and salivating over alphabet-shaped noodles drenched in a creamy cheese sauce. As adults, we still crave these things — but now we make the macaroni and cheese ourselves.
A homemade macaroni and cheese dish just tastes better, especially because you can customize it to your liking, adding in whatever cheese, seasonings, and toppings you love. But because there are so many ways to make macaroni and cheese your own, it can be quite easy to run into a few mistakes while cooking. As a simple dish, making even a small mistake with might ruin it completely.
For this reason, it is always best to be mindful of the missteps you should avoid. Thankfully, the biggest mistakes people make when cooking a homemade macaroni and cheese dish are also the most common. With a bit of information, you can avoid falling victim to them.
You aren't baking it before serving Baking the mac and cheese is the best way to get crispy corner pieces and a golden top without losing the creaminess on the inside. Thus, one major way to mess up mac and cheese is to not bake it before serving. Because macaroni and cheese is so simple, your method of cooking it has an outsized impact on flavor and texture.
When you throw your mac and cheese in the oven, you are giving it a more complex texture profile. If fully baking the dish feels like too much of a hassle, or you don't have the time, try using.
