Hi all– I don't come around here often dropping a lot of superlatives, but we just published this recipe today from Swetha Sivakumar, one of our great contributors. In what I think is fair to call a game-changing discovery, she realized that all you need to make perfect nacho or mac and cheese-type cheese sauce is non-aspirin Alka-Seltzer. No need to buy sodium citrate or lean on the usual starches. A realization like this is a once-in-a-very-rare-while event. Get ready to blow the minds of everyone you know:
https://www.seriouseats.com/alka-seltzer-cheese-sauce-recipe-8643844
Have fun with it!
Daniel Gritzer from SE
by dgritzer
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Wow that’s easy!
Definitely trying this next time.
Alka Seltzer IS just bicarb and sodium citrate (plus aspirin) so it’s a pretty handy trick.
Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit. I had no idea the legendary Daniel Gritzer was kicking it around here. Thanks for sharing /u/dgritzer and I might have to just start keeping some Alka Seltzers handy for whenever my stash of sodium citrate runs out…
So, do we use cherry or citrus flavored alka-seltzee?
Yo this might be a game changer for nacho night
Hot damn, I can’t wait to give this a whirl. Liquid aged swiss cheese sauce is right up my alley.
That’s pretty cool, but I never have Alka seltzer in my medicine cabinet, if I did, it would probably be the aspirin version, and sodium citrate is fairly cheap and easy to get with Amazon being a thing, and lasts like forever.
So, I’ll just keep going with that.
Super cool home science experiment too to demonstrate a neutralization reaction!
Just plain bulk sodium citrate is going to be much cheaper, easier to scale and you’ll never have to worry about accidentally making aspirin cheese sauce.