SparklyUnicorn Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 I like Muenster for grilled cheese. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umsami Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 Velveeta + Rotel = Heaven I like good cheese, but Velveeta is great for things that require melting. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KungFuPanda Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 (edited) So, what's the alternative for queso dip? Do people who don't use Velveeta never make it? Does their queso have a different texture? Or have they found something that melts like queso? I don't want my queso to taste like cream cheese and I don't know what else would melt like queso with a similar flavor. I don't think restaurants are doing anything different. I guess people who don't like Velveeta just would never order queso dip. I buy it for queso and generally I use the leftovers to make mac n cheese because my son prefers the box mix to the real stuff. I make amazing homemade mac n cheese, DS is just insane like that. It's certainly easier than shredding different kinds of cheeses and as instant mac n cheese goes, we prefer the Velveeta kind to the kraft. When people declare they won't allow I product in their house, I wonder how they would go about micro-managing the other adult(s) in their house. I have a husband and a college-age daughter who are capable of shopping and cooking. Sometimes I'm away from home for a few days and I'm often teaching classes in the evening. I can't exactly post a guard at the pantry and I certainly don't want to discourage anyone else from shopping or cooking. I don't WANT to be the only one who does these chores. Edited July 21, 2016 by KungFuPanda 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katy Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 Cream cheese helps, but honestly, nothing I've found matches the melted plastic trans-fats that DH loves when he wants Queso. The closest thing was probably spinach dip - made with sour cream, cheddar, cream cheese, and lots of mayo. A mixture of those might do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catz Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 It's totally possible to make queso without velveeta. I don't care if other people like it. I just can't do a bunch of processed stuff due to food sensitivities so I avoid stuff like Velveeta. I like to put it in a small crock pot on warm. If other people in my house bought and cooked it, I wouldn't care at all. But I wouldn't eat it either. It's not a moral issue for me - LOL. http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchens/queso-fundido-con-chorizo-recipe.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawthorne44 Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 There are worse things than Velveeta. I was once in Manchester, England for business. Hotel restaurant food was excellent, but I eventually tired of it, and feeling homesick I walked to a "Tex-Mex" restaurant. It was decorated like a Borders. I ordered the Queso. I was served undiluted Campbell's Nacho Cheese soup. It was even more horrible than it sounds. If you are wondering why I would eat at a Tex-Mex place in England. Except for the hotel restaurant, there were four choices and they were all some variation of American. Chinese-American, American Bistro, Tex-Mex, and I forget the fourth one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie12345 Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 I hate Velveeta and won't buy it. But I won't deny that it's irreplaceable in certain recipes. I'll stick with the not-quite-right texture of real cheese, tyvm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 There are worse things than Velveeta. I was once in Manchester, England for business. Hotel restaurant food was excellent, but I eventually tired of it, and feeling homesick I walked to a "Tex-Mex" restaurant. It was decorated like a Borders. I ordered the Queso. I was served undiluted Campbell's Nacho Cheese soup. It was even more horrible than it sounds. If you are wondering why I would eat at a Tex-Mex place in England. Except for the hotel restaurant, there were four choices and they were all some variation of American. Chinese-American, American Bistro, Tex-Mex, and I forget the fourth one. See, now I would assume that was just veleeta and/or those plastic cheese slices in a can. I've never thought to make that orange 'queso' dip at home. I've never thought of it as a food I would eat. To me it's an edible food like substance, like bottled ranch dressing. Don't get me wrong, I eat a few of those types of items, but I didn't grow up eating most of them so I have no desire to search them out as an adult. That stuff is right up there with gas station hot dogs, it's in a category of things so far from what I would eat that they don't even register in my brain as edible. So I've probably been at a party where it was on a table, I guess? But I just wouldn't think to eat it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparklyUnicorn Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 I like bottled ranch because frankly making it homemade is not very convenient for as often as I eat it (not often). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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