Smoked Homemade Mac-n-Cheese

[HK91]

Not sure if this should go here in the cheese section or the side items section, but since it is mostly about the cheese, I will put it here.

My son decided he and I should make some homemade Mac-n-Cheese, so the process started about two weeks before actually making the Mac-n-Cheese. First we smoked one pound blocks of cheddar, pepper jack, farmers and mozzarella cheeses using our new AMNPS and maple pellets.



Then we vacuum packed it and waited almost two weeks. My son made the cheese sauce and used a combination of the above cheeses, I think he used almost two pounds total. Then we partially cooked the macaroni and mixed it all up. Finally, we put it in the smoker for about an hour to finish it. Turned out pretty good.



Good stuff,

HK91

[gracoman]

Turned out pretty good.


Good stuff,

HK91

Turned out pretty good? That is the finest mac 'n' cheese I've ever had the pleasure of laying my eyes on. The AMNPS is a wonder and maple was a great choice . Tell your "partner" the gracoman sez his cheese sauce is dead on!
coming your way.

[Wingman]

Hell yeah.... I likey!

[Fishawn]

Nice job! Looks great & I like your PVC rack stacker too

[Vermin99]

Looks great!!!! I hate to admit it but I have never made mac and cheese from scratch

[HK91]

The racks were two for $1 at dollar tree, I had some extra PVC pipe and I figured that since the temps would be low it would be no big deal, same with the 18 gal plastic storage bin. I made one racks legs longer than the other so I could put my blue ice under it.

No-Frills has their 1/2 pound blocks of cheese for 4 for $5, so I will be smoking some this weekend. I am thinking more double smoked mac-n-cheese soon.

HK91

[barkonbutts]

that looks great!!

[sweet_magnolia]

Nice!!!

[MrZip66]

Love me some homemade mac and cheese!! Hard to beat. That looks goood!

[Hambone1950]

I would love to taste that. It looks so nice. I really want to try this on my WSM. That and a meatloaf.

[ExhaustedSpark]

Great job on the picture taking also
When i saw the bowl of macncheese i honestly could smell the cooking. Must be smellavision

One question do the ice blocks really lower the temp and have you measured the diff.???
Karl

[BBQ Bob]

Looks so good! Son is a mac-aholic... he doesn't get it nearly that good!!!!

[TATONKA3A2]

Another I need to do!! Nicely done.

[sweet_magnolia]

Son is a mac-aholic...

[HK91]

I did measure the temps and the blue ice does lower the temps and helps keep the temps from rising too much. A week or two ago it was 65 outside and the same in the blue tub before I put anything in it. I put everything in it while I was letting the AMNPS get started out of the tub for about 15 minutes. The temp in the blue tube dropped to 55 degrees in those 15 minutes. Then I put the AMNPS is after it was going good and the temp slow rose to about 70 degrees by the end of the two hour smoke session. I pulled the cheese and put in a summer sausage because the AMNPS still had some pellets left. By about 4 hours of total smoking time, the blue ice was no longer cold and the temp rose to about 90 degrees.

So I would say the blue ice helps, but won't last much more than 3 hours. No experience with hot outside temps yet though. My son and I are going to build an insulated wooden box cold smoker to use with the AMNPS in the next month or so.

HK91