Hi;
I'm looking at one of my favorite backpacking foods - mac & cheese - on my grocery's website. Not wishing to bother with powdered milk, oil, and or butter, I am looking at the deluxe version of Kraft classic or 4 cheese 14oz.
The directions call for 8 cups of water! That seems like a lot - and is 2x what my largest pot will hold.
I recall that, in the past, I took packets of Kraft mac & cheese which used powdered cheese, and didn't require so much water. I never had a pot larger than 1Q.
I would boil the water, pour the macaroni in, boil another 7 minutes, drain, and either add contents of cheese packet and mix, or transfer the pasta into a disposable bowl, then add the cheese mix. Using the disposable - paper - bowl made cleanup a lot easier. I could just wipe and rinse out the pot, stuff the bowl into a baggie and carry out to trash.
But now I find that I will need a lot more water. Is it just that I'm looking at much larger quantities?
I do understand that the product I am looking at now is not the same as in the past - it has a pouch for the cheese - which is not dehydrated - generally, this is much tastier, and provides more protein.
So, do I need to buy a new pot, break up the cooking of the pasta into two stages, or what? I definitely do want the 14oz size. 7oz is not going to do it for me.
As it is, I will be adding tuna from a packet to the mac & cheese to improve taste and provide more protein.
Thanks for your advice
Arden