How To Cook Macaroni and Cheese [Video]

hey kids so today i’m gonna actually

show you how to how to make macaroni and

cheese

uh and i’m just using the box that you

can buy in the store fairly inexpensive

fairly easy and quick uh you know i’m

not telling you to eat this every night

for dinner but if you need to make a

quick meal this is a pretty good uh way

to do it doesn’t cost a whole lot and

there’s not

not a whole lot of ingredients i have

have added bratwurst to mine um and then

i’ve also added you know in the past

about it olives i’ve added

uh zucchini i’ve added beans i’ve added

peas uh so

you know it’s kind of endless it all

depends on your imagination what you

want to add to it or what you like maybe

you don’t like olives but i do

so anyway um i’m just going to walk you

through that so that uh that you have

some familiarity with it if you’ve never

done it before and if you’re a college

student maybe and you’re just trying to

make a quick meal i’ve made this ever

since i was in in college so

anyway before we do that i do have a dad

joke for you

so

actually you know i did have a dad joke

about macaroni but it was a little

cheesy ah so anyway let’s get started

all right i’m gonna start off by just

chopping up some these are bratwurst you

could use hot dogs it all depends on how

fancy you want to get but it’s a nice

way to turn mac and cheese into a little

bit of more of a fancier meal

so i kind of cut them at an angle

because it

i think it looks cooler

no special reason you could do it you

could do them straight on if you wanted

to

but we’re gonna go ahead and put these

in the pot that we’re gonna cook the

mac and cheese in okay

okay

this is the pot and we’re just going to

start off with this okay

all right so now i’m just going to bring

these over to the

go over to the stove and we’ll start

frying them

okay i’m just going to go ahead and turn

these on

i’m probably going to turn it on

about medium

okay

all right so and then i’m going to go

ahead and add a little olive oil because

i want to fry these

okay

okay and i’m just going to use boxed

macaroni and cheese because i’m trying

to keep this as simple as possible if

you’re a college student and you haven’t

really cooked before

or you just haven’t

you know if you need something quick um

you know there’s fancy mac and cheese

from scratch

but if you’ve never made mac and cheese

before i’m gonna show you um there’s

because there’s a little bit to it okay

uh because if you

add too much milk

it’s awful

you don’t want that right so if anything

be conservative on the milk okay so i’m

going to go ahead and get that ready

while we’re waiting for that to cook so

my

i just got a regular i’m not going to

advertise any brand necessarily but you

could use any kind of macro mac and

cheese you can use an off brand too okay

so just a box of mac and cheese

and it says to i need

fork or six cups of water

four tablespoons margarine or butter and

a quarter cup of milk

okay

so after i fry this

i just keep this all together you could

if you wanted to pull this out

uh

before you add the water and just set

this aside

um but i’m trying to keep it as

you know i’m using as few dishes as

possible because if you’re a college

student again you might not have a whole

lot of dishes so you can do it all in

one okay

so we’re going to get this

i want to put it get get these a little

bit brown if i can okay

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keep checking on it you don’t want it to

stick okay

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okay that looks pretty good now i’m

gonna go ahead and add water to this it

says to add six cups you can eyeball

this you don’t need exactly six cups

they’re just giving you a rough idea so

i’m gonna go out go over to the sink and

add some water

okay so i just added six cups of water

roughly might be a little bit light but

it’s pretty close right so because

you’re gonna cook the pasta the macaroni

noodles in this along with with these uh

these are actually look bratwurst is

what they call them

again you could use hot dogs or what

have you so we’re just going to wait for

that to come to a boil

okay now once that comes to a boil we’re

going to add our

our macaroni

okay which comes in this box

that i’m having a tough time opening

okay

and inside these boxes

you have a cheese packet okay so don’t

open this and just dump it in you need

to save this cheese packet that’s just

powdered cheese and then you got the

macaroni noodles down inside there okay

so we just want that to

this to boil

okay

and then once that boils we’ll add our

noodles

and one thing i think that helps the

noodles from sticking together is that

oil that i’ve added uh as well as the

oil from the from the bratwurst or the

hot dogs whatever you have so that will

probably help uh

keep the

the pasta from sticking together because

normally when you cook pasta you add a

little bit of oil to keep it from

sticking okay

and then once this

boils

we are actually gonna need a a colander

right

uh let’s see i gotta find my colander

too so

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so this is a colander right something

with holes in it like that because we’re

gonna have to drain it so we’re gonna

put this in our sink

and we’re gonna wait for this to boil

and then we’re gonna dump this dump

these into here

okay once this

i’m getting ahead of myself just showing

you what a colander is this is called a

colander okay and there’s different

sizes of these

um i’ve had here i’ll show you

the colander i’ve had i think even from

my college days

it’s a little bit beat up but it’s still

around

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we don’t use it much anymore but um

it shows you they can last for a long

time

because i used to make macaroni and

cheese when i was in college because

it’s a fairly inexpensive uh decent meal

and doesn’t take a whole lot of time

okay so let’s get this thing i’m gonna

trap the heat just a little bit

okay it’s starting to boil

just starting to so we’re gonna go ahead

and put in our pasta

once you put in the pasta it’s going to

kind of slow down the boiling a little

bit

because that’s a little bit cool it

won’t slow it down for long i’m going to

go ahead and cut this heat down to about

six five you know five or six on my on

my stove

okay

and then i’m gonna go ahead and

put my timer on it’s supposed to be

cooked for around seven to eight minutes

so i’m gonna do seven minutes

okay and just let that boil for seven

minutes

okay so

i’ve been stirring this occasionally you

don’t have to stir it much

it kind of takes care of itself but you

just want to make sure it doesn’t stick

to the bottom okay

so we’ve done that and you can see

there’s uh 32 seconds left on my timer

so we’ll just let this continue to boil

until we get there and then we’re going

to bring it over to the sink and we’re

going to dump it in that

colander okay

we’re just about done

okay

okay i’m gonna go ahead and turn off the

heat for now and then i’m going to go

over and put this in the in the colander

okay we just take it here and we just

dump this straight in here

and just let it

leave it sit for now i’m just gonna

leave it sit the instructions on the box

says to put it back in the pan we’re not

gonna do that okay you’ll see why

okay uh

i’m gonna go ahead and turn on my

turn on my stove again and then i’m

gonna go ahead and throw in my you gotta

use a half a stick of butter okay

okay and then

uh a quarter cup of milk again be very

careful with the milk because if you put

in too much milk it’s soupy mac and

cheese and that’s awful

you don’t want that so

all right so i’m just going to let this

melt for a little bit you could even

chop that butter up a little bit so it

melts a little faster but i didn’t so

we’re just gonna go with it

we’re just gonna let that

melt

once that gets melted then we’re gonna

add our cheese sauce into here okay

so let’s just let that melt

okay so the butter is just about melted

all right

and

so i do this like this rather than add

those noodles back in because i can make

sure everything gets mixed good if i do

it this way i think this is a much

better way to do it rather than

add the

add the noodles back in okay so now we

just got our cheese packet we’re gonna

add that

okay

we can cut the heat down a little bit

too

probably down to like a

low i got it on like a two okay so now

see that so you can mix this cheese

sauce because otherwise you get cheese

chunks

cheese sauce chunks cheese chunks aren’t

so bad cheese sauce chunks aren’t so

good so i think you can mix it much

better this way

before you add the

the macaroni back in okay

so now

that looks pretty good

fairly well mixed

okay

now we can turn off the

heat and i’m going to put this over in

the sink and i’m going to dump that

other one back in here back to dump the

pasta back in

okay so now i’m just going to go ahead

and dump this back in i didn’t rinse

this or anything all i did was just let

that sit while i was making that sauce

okay so now

go ahead and dump this in

this this colander is just such a big

colander that’s why i’m doing this in my

sink you know since i have a metal sink

i can do that if you have a different

sink then

maybe you gotta check to see

whether that’s okay to do that but

that’s why i did that

i normally just keep this on the stove

and then i bring my colander over and

dump it in

okay see that see it’s mixing up nice

and good and i’m gonna add one last

little touch here for you

and bring it back over to the

to the stove top okay

okay so one last little thing here

a little touch um you could transfer

this to another bowl that has a lid

i’m trying to use as few bowls as

possible trying to use a few dishes so

you don’t clean up as much right we’re

just gonna go ahead and do that

get all the excess off

set that aside and then i’m gonna put a

little cheese on the top okay

when i lived with my brother and his

wife

uh karen used to do this and it kind of

ties the whole thing all together at the

end with the with that coating of cheese

on the top okay so then we’re just gonna

take this

put the lid on and let it sit for about

10 minutes so that cheese can melt so

all the

the stove is off it’s just sitting here

by itself taking the heat from inside

the pan

okay let’s take a look

nice look at that pretty gourmet

right

okay so i hope that was helpful for you

um

yeah fairly quick easy meal you can buy

that box usually for about a dollar in

the store um you can even get it cheaper

than that if you go

uh with a generic brand uh

and

you know most of them are decent you

kind of get what you pay for so um but

if you’re on the cheap you know you can

you can make a meal fairly cheap you

obviously don’t need to add the

hot dogs or the bratwurst um

but you can and then i’ve also added

olives

i’ve added

zucchini before so you can kind of dress

up something without spending a whole

lot of money you can dress up that

macaroni macaroni and cheese uh

yeah without without breaking the bank

so

i hope this was helpful for you thanks

for watching and god bless you