Hi all, this is a quick review/how to for the SE cheese sauce made using the "alka-seltzer" method, specifically for folks in countries where Alka-Seltzer Gold is unavailable.
Living in Australia, the key ingredient used in this recipe is not readily available. However an English product commonly found in Aus, NZ, UK and India is an old-fashioned (early 20th Century) indigestion remedy called "Eno" – it's a powder you mix into water and drink, and it happens to be an almost identical product to Alka-Seltzer Gold, containing sodium bicarbonate, sodium carbonate, and citric acid in roughly the same proportions – and no aspirin!
So having bought a bottle of Eno (regular, not lemon flavoured), I set about testing the recipe using this product instead….
Long story short, it works beautifully! Made a lovely little bowl of gooey cheese sauce in about 3 mins on the stovetop, no hassle at all.
My sauce used margarine in place of butter as I had none around, and tasty cheddar cheese from Aldi, and is delicious! I would not season further with salt, there is a little salty buzz in it already, I assume from the reaction that creates the sodium citrate, but YMMV.
Simply follow the recipe as SE directs, except use 2 teaspoons of Eno powder instead of the Alka-Seltzer tablets, and boom, amazing cheese sauce haha.
My previous go-to for a cheese sauce that isn't bechamel-based was Kenji's 3-ingredient cheese sauce, and I would say this is a better sauce, and doesn't leave me with half a tin of evaporated milk that sits in the back of the fridge and slowly grows mold! Win-win!
by Suup_dorks
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Hey cool, I know Eno, its in supermarkets and pharmacies here in Oz, will defo give this a go for my next batch of nachos for the missus
Canada too.
What’s it do to the sauce?
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