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The right amount of ketchup on Mac and cheese is zero

Any amount of ketchup on mac and cheese is too much.

Any ketchup on Mac and Cheese is too much if you are older than twelve.

Use Sriracha like an adult.

This is a joke, right? Nobody actually puts ketchup on macaroni and cheese, right? No way. No way.

Zero. The answer to this question is Zero. There is no amount of Ketchup that should be added to Kraft Dinner.

Why would you make your pasta taste like cheese and then make it stop tasting like cheese?

Any amount of ketchup on mac n cheese is too much

We dont defile macaroni and cheese here so zero.

There is NO pasta dish that should have catsup on it. None.

None that’s gross

Nope. I don't like this. No thank you.

Any ketchup on mac and cheese is too much ketchup.

I've never known a Non-Canadian to put any on mac and cheese, which is of course the correct amount. You can make home made mac cheaper and more flavourfully than name brand KD.

The answer is hot sauce

Northern countries should be banned from importing ketchup, they only use it to commit sins and atrocities. Norway has some explaining to do.

Any amount over 0, IMO.

Also: Make sure to fatten up your tapeworms.

Ketchup is like garlic...you don't measure it with your eyes, you measure it with your heart.

Alright, lot of people saying zero here, and I agree, but there is a fancy mac and cheese place that serves barbeque pork mac and cheese that is incredible. Barbeque sauce goes very well with mac and cheese even without the pork.

Your canadian friends only use the right amount if they dont use any ketchup at all.

Ketchup on actual dishes is a sin and the culinary concession that your food tastes like shit and needs to be drowned in the allspice of condiments.

I have no idea how big the bottles are you're using, but I can tell you.... half a bottle is way too fucking much.

That said, I think ketchup on Mac and cheese is absolutely disgusting, but dumping half a bottle of anything into anything is way too much

Any is too much, everyone knows ketchup properly belongs on peanut butter sandwiches.

I've mixed quite a few things into mac & cheese. Ketchup has never been one of them.

Speaking of condiments, mixing about 1 tbsp of mustard (dijon works best, but regular yellow is fine too) into the cheese sauce helps bring out the cheese flavor, but doesn't make it taste like mustard.

Now I need to know what else you put ketchup on

As an American of a certain age, as soon as I saw the post title I heard "Ode oten doten day..." in my head.

I top my mac and cheese up with tonic and finish it with a float of St. Germaine.

Depends. Have you mixed in good stuff? Broccoli? Bacon? Peas? Extra cheese? Mustard?

If yes, then none. Savour the flavour provided by your culinary instigator.

If no, then maybe?

Despite my love and appreciation for the Barenaked Ladies, one should just drink fancy Dijon ketchups and not bother with the Kraft Mac and Cheese to begin with.

Nobody can tell you the right amount for you. If you like the amount you use, great.

Maybe a tsbp so the can stragicially use it as a dip spot for each bite.

None. I use none. Kraft Mac is already bad but if I'm in the mood for something nostalgic there are a dozen other things i would add first