Need Help: Mac & Cheese

CharlestonGriller

I love this BGE!!!! Have had great success with pork shoulder, burgers, chicken breast, wings and London broil. Now, I need to prove to my wife that I can handle food that she normally cooks. Can anyone give me some suggestions on how to do it on the egg? Do you ever add any smoke to the Mac and cheese?

Chubbs

If you have your wife's recipe and it goes into a pyrex or something like that, it is easy. Just set up egg for indirect heat and put the pyrex on the grid. Make sure you dont go to high on the heat. I usually keep it around 350 or so. The egg will naturally add a little smoke flavor to the dish. My suggestion would be to try without smoke first and then add later if feel inclined to do so. The last thing you want to do is add it and it overpower the dish and you start off 0-1 cooking your wife's dishes on the egg. Good luck.

 

CharlestonGriller

@chubbs, thanks and a very good point!! Need to be 1 for 1!!

brycos

Chubbs said:

If you have your wife's recipe and it goes into a pyrex or something like that, it is easy. Just set up egg for indirect heat and put the pyrex on the grid. Make sure you dont go to high on the heat. I usually keep it around 350 or so. The egg will naturally add a little smoke flavor to the dish. My suggestion would be to try without smoke first and then add later if feel inclined to do so. The last thing you want to do is add it and it overpower the dish and you start off 0-1 cooking your wife's dishes on the egg. Good luck.

 

Good advice!

TexanOfTheNorth

I agree with @Chubbs. Also, try doing vegetables on the egg. I did some cedar plank salmon last night and put some asparagus and yellow zuchinni on as well. A simple, delicious, complete meal.

Chubbs

@CharlestonGriller, try this for her:

http://eggheadforum.com/discussion/1153842/egg-baked-spaghetti-lotsa-pics#latest

My wife thought it was killer.

twelvebeer

Pioneer Woman mac n cheese. http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2009/04/macaroni-cheese/

I dont really like mac n cheese but that is a great recipe!

fishlessman

i would just cook it over well burning lump and not add smoke for the first cook. also definately use your wifes recipe, you will be graded on that comparison. i went on a mac and cheese binge a few years ago trying to improve or make it better, found out after lots of experimentation that i like the simple velveeta mac the best
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CharlestonGriller

@fishlessman: thanks!!!

U_tarded

I got a smoked Mac and cheese that is awesome here it is:

http://eggheadforum.com/discussion/1142142/smoked-mac-and-cheese#latest

Started with a tried and true recipe modified it for the egg

CharlestonGriller

@u_tarded: thanks!!!

BigGreenBamaGriller

I did a mac n cheese with a little hickory and cherry (I was doing ribs at the same time) and we felt that the smoke flavor made it disgusting.