Grammy's Kitchen · Macaroni and Cheese · The Best Crock Pot Mac and Cheese
One of 120 macaroni and cheese recipes we measured
from southernbite.com
101 cooks on southernbite.com rate it 4.5★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 120.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| cheese | 125% | 112% |
| dairy | 231% | 168% |
| fat | 13% | 13% |
| salt | 1% | 1% |
| different cheeses | 2.0 | 1.0 |
| melt idx | 0.7 | 0.6 |
| cheese flavor idx | 0.5 | 0.6 |
| stretch idx | 0.3 | 0.3 |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 454 g | 1 (16-ounce) block sharp cheddar cheese |
| 113 g | 4 ounces American cheese |
| 454 g | 1 (1-pound) box dried elbow macaroni (uncooked) |
| 57 g | 1/4 cup unsalted butter (melted) |
| 680 g | 2 (12-ounce) cans evaporated milk* |
| 366 g | 1 1/2 cups whole milk |
| 2 g | 1/2 teaspoon dry mustard |
| 6 g | 1 teaspoon salt |
Method: 3 steps, published by southernbite.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“My family and I LOVE Mac and cheese, call us the Mac and cheese connoisseurs. We prefer creamy, cheesy texture. But, this was a bit too cheesy/creamy. I did have someone else (hubby) go shopping for me and he only got 1- 8 ounce block of sharp cheddar. (I had ” — a cook, 3.0★
“Hi Stacey! I was truly in the mood for mac and cheese yesterday but oven cooking out of the question with the heat so I tried your recipe. It was AWESOME! I did make a few changes … it’s always been my nature to do this. First of all, you didnt say to rinse th” — a cook, 5.0★