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A "Healthy Amount of Cheese" is always an Unhealthy Amount of Cheese. (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I heard someone say this in a video recipe, followed by way more cheese than you should eat at once. It occurred to me that the phrase means ample, not nutritious.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Processed cheese may or may not be worse, depending on the processing and depending on the cheese you compare it to. There are thousands of kinds of cheese.

And even the healthiest cheese can still be eaten in excess. That was my point, not that cheese is unhealthy, but adding "a healthy amount" is phrase that really means more than one person should eat.

[+] [email protected] -9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Thats true. American cheese is just water(chemicals) down cheddar.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Sodium citrate. If you want the best cheese sauce you'll ever have that doesn't break, use whatever cheese you want for the sauce, and add a teaspoon of sodium citrate. You can refrigerate that cheese sauce and it won't break.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You too watched NileRed?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No. I'm a retired chef.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Nice. I just watch someone make that on a video. So thats why I asked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What's the ratio of cheese to sodium citrate?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

6 cups or a pound and a half of cheese, shredded, half cup of flour, half cup of butter, 2.5 cups of half and half, 1.5 cups of milk. Add a teaspoon of sodium citrate to that much cheese sauce, or about 8 cups of sauce. That will make enough sauce for a pound of macaroni product noodles. I generally do twisty or shells

If you don't have pure sodium citrate, a single slice of American Cheese will do the trick.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I appreciate this tip, I've had lots of trouble trying to make home made cheese sauce. Even if I felt the flour and milk cooked long enough and I added cheese slowly, I had trouble getting everything to come together. It may be that I still wasnt cooking long enough either because I have a bad habit of scorching the milk, so I would pull it off the burner perhaps too soon. I don't know exact I haven't tried it enough, because I don't like wasting food.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Turn your burner down. If you're scorching the milk, your burner is too high. I do all of this at a 3/10 on my stove. You cannot rush this. Patience is key.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Land o Lakes still makes a cultured American actuall f$%kdamn cheese and it is amazing. Nothing like kraft singles.