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[Eric C]

Shit. Really? The US box says four.

Interesting seeing the cooking instruction differences between the US & Canadian boxes.

In the US:
Classic is 4 tbsp + 1/4 cup of 2% milk
Light is 2 tbsp + 1/4 cup of fat free milk

In Canada:
Classic is 3 tbsp + 1/4 cup of milk
Sensible is 1 tbsp + 1/4 cup of skim milk

 

[ToxicAdam]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8TnWIICkBeE&desktop_uri=/watch?v=8TnWIICkBeE

 

[Log4Girlz]

I just ate a whole box of KD, look at what you made me become GAF, LOOK AT IT

Did you have it with a cold glass of bagged milk?

 

[PigSpeakers]

People follow the instructions? I mean, I guess since it's op's first time and all.

I just wing it whenever I make boxed mac. I barely get the kraft brand though.

 

[malfcn]

My friend called it KDD.
Kraft Dinner Dinner.

 

[Sanjuro]

Reheating mac and cheese is death though. Once that gooeyness is gone, it's shit!

 

[Jado]

My gf makes amazing homemade mac and cheese with bacon and finished in the oven. Anything coming out of a box tastes like shit, including that "healthy" flavorless Annies garbage.

 

[TheExodu5]

1 tablespoon of butter. I just had Kraft Dinner earlier this week...

That's the healthy version. The regular is 3 tablespoons of butter and 1/4 cup of milk.

 

[entremet]

I've always hated boxed mac and cheese, even as a kid.

But my mom worked and was tired, so I don't blame her. I always melted more cheese on it. The cheese powder really sucks.

 

[big_z]

I prefer Deluxe over the powder. Starting to warm up to the cardboard-y taste of Annie's because it's healthier or something, according to Wife.

I've wanted to try Annie's but its almost 3x the price and so many Kraft knock offs taste like shit. Btw its not any healthier, I think it might actually be slightly worse calorie wise.

 

[Sarcasm]

Ok, so. I'm from/living in England, and I've never tried a Kraft dinner but a big supermarket chain here started selling American stuff so I thought fuckit I'll see what the deal is.

1. It's not -bad-, better than most mac 'n' cheeses you can get here.
2. I pumped it with a huge spoon of butter, based on the instructions and the assumption that people in the US might do that..
3. Holy fuck that mix is yellow.
4. Ok, it's not bad but jesus there is a lot of food here.

Serious, let's discuss Kraft Mac 'n' Cheese.

2. I never put that much in mine

Also I grab real cheese and add it in myself heh

 

[Derwind]

As a Canadian

Say no more brother. Say no more.

Isn't KD like our national dish or something. Lol.

 

[Darryl]

I've always hated boxed mac and cheese, even as a kid.

But my mom worked and was tired, so I don't blame her. I always melted more cheese on it. The cheese powder really sucks.

Yea I hated it hardcore as a kid as well. My parents made it too often because it was cheap and they were broke. I actually eat it as a treat or something nowadays, though. Good memories I guess.

 

[Slavik81]

PC Macaroni and Cheese is secretly better.

 

[Valnen]

Mac and Cheese sucks if you follow the directions, always needs a little more milk than what is said on the box.

 

[killer rin]

Kraft Dinner all the way.. Actually I think I might go have some right now.

 

[firehawk12]

I kind of miss the taste of the shitty cheese substitute powder. I wish they just sold that on its own. lol

 

[shadowkat]

We stopped getting Kraft Dinner when I was a kid and got President's Choice Deluxe White Cheddar Macaroni and Cheese because it was cheaper. It's much better.

And holy hell, 3 tablespoons of margarine? I've never, ever used that much. Only 1 tablespoon of margarine (not butter).

 

[Stuggernaut]

Adding a good meaty pasta sauce, no milk, half the butter creates food of the Gods.

 

[TheExodu5]

We stopped getting Kraft Dinner when I was a kid and got President's Choice Deluxe White Cheddar Macaroni and Cheese because it was cheaper. It's much better.

It was quite good. I wouldn't say better...different and equally good. Do they still make it?

 

[Like the hat?]

Kraft Mac and cheese with tuna and frozen peas used to be one of my go-to meals.

 

[Razgriz-Specter]

Interesting seeing the cooking instruction differences between the US & Canadian boxes.

http://i.imgur.com/kn6WPbZ.jpg


In the US:
Classic is 4 tbsp + 1/4 cup of 2% milk
Light is 2 tbsp + 1/4 cup of fat free milk

In Canada:
Classic is 3 tbsp + 1/4 cup of milk
Sensible is 1 tbsp + 1/4 cup of skim milk

Canada doing it wrong again.

Mo butta mo betta

 

[Takuan]

Love me some KD but only have it once in a blue moon.

 

[Kickz]

 

[AutumnRay]

Not sure and do not really care but the US version of this mac has a dye in it linked to cancer that they don't even use in the europe version. I find this hilarious living in the US. I'm about to go make myself some drunk organic whole wheat noodles with fresh melted cheeses from cows not fed fucked up hormones. Yes, I do think this is better.

I mean, the fact they even put in dyes in something in the US just speaks volumes on how they think customers view and buy their food.

 

[IceDoesntHelp]

Did you have it with a cold glass of bagged milk?

:lol I hate the taste of milk, so no.

 

[equippedwithtowel]

Secretly better, white cheddar for life.

 

[Dark Octave]

What's a "Kraft Dinner"? Just Mac and Cheese?

Secretly better, white cheddar for life.

Here we go with people gotta start posting all this snobby mac and cheese. Fool you ain't sophisticated

 

[AutumnRay]

There are so many better macaroni products that it is not even funny let alone just melting your own cheese and mixing with noodles of your choice.

I still don't think the US version advocates mixing the sauce BEFORE you pour it on noodles which is weird.

Seriously will NEVER EVER get why mixing your own better noodles with 10x better cheese is so fucking hard. Seriously, why? This is factory dogcrap. I'd rather eat beer.

 

[Apath]

Kraft Mac n' Cheese is the best thing ever. I am ruined because I honestly prefer it over any macaroni and cheese I've had in my life. It's fucked up.

And never follow the butter/milk instructions. You'll end up having butter with some watery macaroni and cheese. Use like 1tbs max. I use like 3/4 of one. Then drizzle the milk a little at a time as you mix. If you add the amount they say, you're going to end up with some watery Mac n' cheese.

 

[umop_3pisdn]

PC Macaroni and Cheese is secretly better.

Yeah it's true, both White Cheddar and the orange kind.

 

[equippedwithtowel]

Kraft Mac n' Cheese is the best thing ever. I am ruined because I honestly prefer it over any macaroni and cheese I've had in my life. It's fucked up.

And never follow the butter/milk instructions. You'll end up having butter with some watery macaroni and cheese. Use like 1tbs max. I use like 3/4 of one. Then drizzle the milk a little at a time as you mix. If you add the amount they say, you're going to end up with some watery Mac n' cheese.

The drizzle is truly an art. Only the best can come out not grainy and not soupy.

 

[wandering goat]

I never really ate Kraft Dinner until about two years ago - tasty once in a while when you want a quick meal. But I second the people above me, PC White Cheddar is the bomb.

 

[AutumnRay]

The drizzle is truly an art. Only the best can come out not grainy and not soupy.

The secret is NOT to mix your 'packet' directly on the macaroni. It's pretty easy stuff and most european brands seem to say this. Of course your sauce has to be decent.

The US is treated like complete and utter morons with mac and cheese and not only that they get the cancerous dyes too! YUM!

 

[lem0n]

This is the only thing you should buy

 

[AutumnRay]

This is the only thing you should buy

Agreed, or something like this. Or make your own better yet. People need to think of better things. For the price of Annie's we can make shit tons of it by buying the ingredients separate. There is really no reason not to. Fresh cut cheese and organic butters are better than powder cheese plus whatever PERIOD.

 

[vas_a_morir]

I add like a third of what they tell me to add. Otherwise, it is flavorless and watery.

And you guys got me wanting to eat Kraft mac and cheese pretty bad.

 

[Wingfan19]

As long as we all agree that Spirals is the best kind of the regular Mac N Cheese, we're all good here..

 

[vas_a_morir]

As long as we all agree that Spirals is the best kind of the regular Mac N Cheese, we're all good here..

I like the character shapes. It just tastes cheesier. Your science can't explain that.

 

[Wingfan19]

I like the character shapes. It just tastes cheesier. Your science can't explain that.

I use the same science to explain that the spirals taste 100X better than regular mac n cheese even if you use the exact same amount of butter and milk. Can't explain that. Something about the spiral shape makes it taste better than the noodle shape.

 

[Edwardo]

blue box is the best

 

[smokeandmirrors]

Melt the butter with the milk in the microwave and mix in the cheese sauce into the mix before the noodles. You get a better mix and can save some time if you do it whilst simultaneously cooking the noodles.

 

[CF_Fighter]

I love Kraft Mac n Cheese. Always have a couple boxes in my cupboard. Though I do love the Trader Joe's frozen Mac and Cheese as well. I always add some cayenne pepper to the Kraft at the end of making it to give it a nice kick.

 

[Cindres]

Interesting seeing the cooking instruction differences between the US & Canadian boxes.

In the US:
Classic is 4 tbsp + 1/4 cup of 2% milk
Light is 2 tbsp + 1/4 cup of fat free milk

In Canada:
Classic is 3 tbsp + 1/4 cup of milk
Sensible is 1 tbsp + 1/4 cup of skim milk

It's that one on the left that I had, still just used 1 tbsp.

 

[Madness]

Grew up in Canada, called it Mac and Cheese. Who calls it Kraft Dinner? I would never say I'm eating a Kraft Dinner. At most I'd say I had some Kraft Macaroni and Cheese.

 

[vas_a_morir]

Grew up in Canada, called it Mac and Cheese. Who calls it Kraft Dinner? I would never say I'm eating a Kraft Dinner. At most I'd say I had some Kraft Macaroni and Cheese.

You're like the Canadians who say "What the fuck is bagged milk?" You also say "Sorry? Fuck sorry; I ain't sorry for shit."

Canadian stereotypes... my God, they're all lies.

 

[SmokinGunZ1981]

Ok, so. I'm from/living in England, and I've never tried a Kraft dinner but a big supermarket chain here started selling American stuff so I thought fuckit I'll see what the deal is.

1. It's not -bad-, better than most mac 'n' cheeses you can get here.
2. I pumped it with a huge spoon of butter, based on the instructions and the assumption that people in the US might do that..
3. Holy fuck that mix is yellow.
4. Ok, it's not bad but jesus there is a lot of food here.

Serious, let's discuss Kraft Mac 'n' Cheese.

What supermarket did you get this from?

 

[Wazzy]

The only good way to eat KD is with Heinz ketchup.

 

[equippedwithtowel]

Grew up in Canada, called it Mac and Cheese. Who calls it Kraft Dinner? I would never say I'm eating a Kraft Dinner. At most I'd say I had some Kraft Macaroni and Cheese.

Actually you call it KD,

Just saying.

 

[Cindres]

What supermarket did you get this from?

Tesco. Most of them near me seem to have an American stand now, even the expresses.