It really depends on the recipe. The most basic is just regular mac and cheese with extra cheese on top and broil to color on top. Don’t want to overdo it.
Some like having extras for toppings aside from cheese such as crackers, cheez-its, bread crumbs, or even hot cheetos.
Often times the mac and cheese mixture is fortified to enhance creaminess or help prevent breaking the sauce from the heat. This can be in the form of additional cheese folded in (grated cheeses or cream cheese chunks folded in, or including some sodium citrate like american cheese, velveeta, or granules to smooth out the cheese. Some recipes even call for addition of eggs before baking. There is a risk of over baking which can lead to noodles soaking up too much sauce which can lose the saucy texture and become dry, or end up breaking the sauce and end with an oily mess.
It really depends on the recipe. The most basic is just regular mac and cheese with extra cheese on top and broil to color on top. Don’t want to overdo it.
Some like having extras for toppings aside from cheese such as crackers, cheez-its, bread crumbs, or even hot cheetos.
Often times the mac and cheese mixture is fortified to enhance creaminess or help prevent breaking the sauce from the heat. This can be in the form of additional cheese folded in (grated cheeses or cream cheese chunks folded in, or including some sodium citrate like american cheese, velveeta, or granules to smooth out the cheese. Some recipes even call for addition of eggs before baking. There is a risk of over baking which can lead to noodles soaking up too much sauce which can lose the saucy texture and become dry, or end up breaking the sauce and end with an oily mess.