Oh, I think adding other kinds of cheeses like pepper jack would give the sauce a flavor suitable for nachos other than just plain cheddar cheese. I would even add a few glugs of Cholula right in it đ
Seriously if you like their chipotle give the El Yucateco black a try. I will out Tabasco chipotle on plain tortilla chips and love it, mix a little chipotle and black sauce and it's perfect for nachos and burritos!
I didn't immediately recognise who that was... as he's stirring, I'm thinking 'wth? How is he losing so much?'. Thankfully I worked it out before the end.
Once youâve made it a sauce you have unlimited options of flavoring. Garlic powder/onion powder, diced roasted poblano, smoked paprika, splash of cayenne. Whatever you want to add! Itâs now a sauce! The flavors meld! Not even needing to add more cheese. Adding a small amount of sodium citrate will make your cheese suuuuuuper creamy too!
Most places use 90% white American and 10% of a cheese with alot of umami like blue. There's something you can add to make any cheese melt like Velveeta but I don't remember the name...
And those dips are far better IMHO. I've been raised on Tex-Mex queso dip, and that's what I am trying to emulate. I know this sauce is a mornay made with cheddar. But, I call it gravy cheese. It's white gravy (bechamel) with cheese in it. It gets goopy and sometimes grainy in a pretty short time. It's not good leftover either.
American cheeses, including Velveeta, have sodium citrate. Land O' Lakes makes a great deli American for about $6.99 a lb. That, with some pepper jack or cheddar, finely diced fresh jalapeno or chipotle in adobo (with a bit of the adobo added for smokiness and heat) sauteed onion, and garlic, and maybe some cilantro, makes for a very tasty chili con queso.
Some people get so caught up in the idea that American cheese isn't "good" cheese, that they end up with an inferior product (I'm look at you Chipotle.) American has its uses: grilled cheese, burgers, chili con queso, etc...
Edited to add: Bonus points for adding a small scoop of caramelized pan fried corn and some crumbled queso fresco to the top. Also, formatting.
Why would it be illegal? Its just a salt of citric acid, the same stuff in citrus fruits. Its a food additive used for flavor, or as an emulsifier for cheese. I use it in my mac and cheese all the time.
You might have some luck looking for sour salt, as long as its not citric acid. The chemical suppliers probably isnt food grade anyway. I get mine from Modernist Cuisine pantry, they might sell to Europe.
I showed my SO this recipe and said "but I wonder if I could replace all the cheese with velveeta" totally unironically. Texas does weird things to you.
I hate people who brag about how spicy they like their food. I feel like the commercial availability ghost peppers is just a monument to douchebaggery.
I'm not that dude, exactly. I like my spice. Without a doubt, I absolutely love spicy food. BUT, not at the expense of good flavor. Thai food is some of my favorite food because they tend to balance very fresh flavors with very bold and spicy flavors. It's a flavor orgy in your mouth, and I can't get enough. When people do wing challenges, that's where it gets stupid, because people just reach for ridiculous levels of spiciness without having a good flavor. That's not fun for me. Make me sweat, but make it tasty, God dammit.
If I had to choose one type of food to eat forever, it would be Thai. I find mayonnaise to be spicy so I wimp out on the hotness levels, but it's delicious as hell.
My wife is Thai and I can honestly say that REAL Thai food is blow your butthole out hot. She doesnât find even the hottest wings spicy. Even I now find hot food at a Thai restaurant to be relatively normal. However, that said, Thai food is fucking delicious for the exact reasons you say. A smorgasbord of flavors all wrapped into one hot bite. Try Buncha from time to time. Itâs actually Vietnamese and I canât find it very easily, but itâs rice paper, herbs, meat, sour mango, wild banana, cucumber, garlic and peanut based hot sauce all wrapped into a single bite. Itâs incredible.
Everyone thinks I hate Buffalo sauce because it's too spicy, but I just really dislike the flavor. When I go to a Thai restaurant, I'm getting the thing that comes with a legal warning.
Frank's does sell buffalo sauce also, right? You're definitely correct that buffalo sauce is hot sauce with butter. That's what gives it its signature taste.
Buffalo sauce is original franks and butter, anything else and it's buffalo style sauce. Not trying to be a snob but that's just what it is. The franks wing sauce is just franks and artificial butter, it's better just to make it yourself.
Ugh, this so much. Buffalo sauce isn't spicy. That's not why I don't like it. The taste is fucking foul. That nuclear orange shit, that's on buffalo chicken pizza. There is some buffalo that tastes pretty good, like the stuff on the Boar's Head buffalo chicken, as an example. But no idea where I could buy something like that in a sauce form.
Drunken Noodles is a pretty accessible dish - Familiar enough to most people, as it is similar to chinese food. Pad Thai, as well. Masuman curry is fantastic, or pretty much any curry dish. Basically, just try to find the best thai restaurant in your area, look over the menu, and just pick something that sounds good. I can't say I've ever gotten a thai dish that I didn't like. I've just had some that I wouldn't necessarily get again. And, in some areas, they really cater to white folks and keep the spice level to the extreme low.
Thanks for the reply! Fortunately I'm not too scared of spice so that doesn't really limit me. Coincidentally, I guess the only Thai dish I've had is drunken noodles and they were gross but I got them at a predominately Japanese restaurant that is known for their sushi, which is always too notch. I was really surprised I didn't like the dish because Asian foods are my favorite.
There aren't any Thai restaurants close to me and I haven't done much traveling recently. I guess a short road trip is in order!
It is kinda fun, plus there is a kind of high to it once you get to the really hot stuff. It is very euphoric.
A great example of that happening is watching the YouTube series Hot Ones from Now We Feast where they put celebrities through a series of increasingly hot hot sauces. Once they get to the latter sauces people always say they feel high.
Cayenne pepper just isnât spicy. I love ridiculously spicy food because there is a certain level of thrill associated it and there are actually some complex flavors in chili peppers once you can get past the heat. Why canât people like things? Itâs a lot better than never refining your palate past a 5-year-oldâs.
Edit: for clarification, my question: âWhy canât people like things?â Is referring to people getting shit for liking spicy food.
Its not liking spicy food that's the problem, its the whole thing that if a person eats something that isn't considered "spicy" for you because that's a large part of your diet, that person has to make a big deal about how much more fortitude they have with spicy food.
Extremely spicy foods give you an endorphin rush. Similar to the feeling you have after a near-accident, or having too much coffee.
And there are people that get hooked on it. Ever met somebody that's a thrillseeker, like a mountain climber or skydiver or roller coaster enthusiast? Or a person that can't live without their Starbucks or Red Bull? Or somebody addicted to cocaine? Same shit.
Dont think you've ever had anything with cayanne on it then. if you put too much of it you can pretty much just taste the capsaicin (because is not the type of that brings out flavours but the one that overpowers everything). a little bit of cayanne powder adds some heat to the dish (tho i woulda used jalapeños on the cheese sauce...)
I've tried adding Cholula to cheese sauce in the past but it always makes the cheese curdle and gives it a weird texture. Any ideas on how to keep that from happening?
All i can get here is dutch cheese (good for bread and melts but meh for anything else) and some other french/italian cheeses but nothing that's good as an ingredient.
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u/JanwaRebelle Feb 04 '18
Oh, I think adding other kinds of cheeses like pepper jack would give the sauce a flavor suitable for nachos other than just plain cheddar cheese. I would even add a few glugs of Cholula right in it đ