While restaurants around the world trick out macaroni and cheese with truffle oil or dumb it down into, true mac and cheese fanatics know there's no place quite like home. The mac that most people remember fondest came from a rectangle box with a powdered flavor packet that should never be tasted on its own, unless you've always wanted to ingest a neon orange lump of sodium phosphate. Mac and cheese has come a long way since then, as evidenced by the results of this taste-test of eight top national brands. This may shake your macaroni and cheese beliefs to their cheesy core. Quinoa Mac & Cheese Cheesiness: 1 -- It doesn't even taste like cheese, it's more straight up pasta. It's as if the macaroni shampooed itself with cheese sauce and washed it off. All that's left is the smell.

The Best Homemade Mac and Cheese December 21, 2015 The combination of creamy gouda and havarti cheese make a silky, cheesy macaroni and cheese sauce that tastes far better than the boxed kind. Mac and Cheese in a Cheese Waffle Cone Cauliflower Mac-N-Cheese Homemade mac and cheese with cauliflower is a quick and easy dinner to prepare for weeknights that the whole family will love.

Artificial flavor: 5 -- The flavor had hints of paper and sterilizer, but was so neutral that it earned average marks. Pasta: 3 -- The sauce formed to the macaroni, giving it a rough texture that was pretty horrid. It didn't have an aftertaste; it had an aftertexture. Overall flavor: 2 -- This is an embarrassment and shouldn't even be called mac and cheese.

Final score: 2.75 -- DON'T EAT THIS, EVER. 7. Mrs Leeper's Gluten-free Mac & Cheese Cheesiness: 4 -- Creamy and full of flavor up front, but with highly diminishing returns. Each bite tastes less cheesy.

Artificial flavor: 6 -- Turmeric and paprika do a good job of masking the artificial flavors until the stainless steel aftertaste overpowers them. Pasta: 1 -- Definitely the worst. Their slogan 'keeping the taste in and the gluten out' is only technically accurate. It didn't keep consistency at all. Damn you, rice flour! Overall flavor: 2 -- The fakeness of the pasta took center stage, detracting from a decent cheese flavor. Final score: 3.25 -- GLUTEN, LIKE GREED, IS GOOD.

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