![]() ![]() If you need to stretch the cook to match the cook on a protein or main dish, you can add a bit of milk or half and half to keep the sauce from thickening too much. Smoking mac and cheese at a lower temperature like 225✯ gives you a bit of flexibility on cook time. We smoked this mac and cheese on a Traeger Ironwood with Traeger Signature Pellets (a blend of hickory, maple, and cherry). I’ll say, it’s hard to beat the creaminess of melted processed cheese! One of the popular recipes we tested called for Velveeta and cream of mushroom, similar to the queso blanco and cream of poblano in our smoked hash brown casserole. As long as you’re using freshly grated cheese, you should be fine. You can also add a bit of seasoning to your topping, if you’d like.Ĭheese selection is important, but we had great smoked mac n cheese with all kinds of cheese. This was probably the most impactful takeaway from our cook-off. While it’s possible to get a crispy topping for macaroni and cheese on a smoker at higher temperatures, toasting bread crumbs in a skillet takes things to another level. We felt these things made a creamy and flavorful mac and cheese with minimal effort (making a roux and cheese sauce is for the birds). Cheese Sauce Seasoning – A tablespoon of your favorite BBQ rub likely provides more flavor than dry mustard, pepper, and other commonly used seasonings for mac and cheese.Most of the popular recipes we tested were a bit too thick, resembling more macaroni casserole than mac and cheese. Liquid Ingredients – Using both whole milk and half and half provides enough liquid to cook the pasta and keep the sauce creamy.Cheese Selection – Cream Cheese, Colby Jack or Sharp Cheddar, and Gouda or Gruyere.Cook Method – We found cooking the macaroni on its own was an unnecessary step, and that cooking low and slow at 225✯ edged out cooking at a higher temperature like 350✯.Topping – Panko breadcrumbs > Traditional Breadcrumbs (both are better pre-toasted in a skillet with butter and olive oil before adding to the mac and cheese).Here are our top five components of an “ultimate” mac and cheese on a pellet grill (in order of importance): ![]() Our mac and cheese cook-off gave us a pretty clear vision for the must-have ingredients and methods. You’ll have to let us know if we’re on the money or if there are other recipes we need to test! What Makes This the Ultimate Smoked Mac and Cheese? This recipe is our “ultimate” version, combining our favorite things from each to create the best smoked macaroni and cheese we’ve ever tasted. We recently tested five of the most popular smoked mac and cheese recipes from all over the internet in our first ever Smoker Showdown video. ![]()
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