- What's up?
- [Both] It doesn't smell like cheese.
- Like a regular cheese.
There's something in it.
- Hi, my name is Yolie and I'm a chef de cuisine.
I've been in this industry for about 15 years now.
- Hi, my name is Diana and I have been cooking
for eight years.
I am a sous chef
and my favorite thing to cook and eat is pasta.
- [Male Interviewer] What's your experience
with mac and cheese?
- Comes in a box.
That was my childhood.
- I like to make my cheese sauce.
One of my favorite ready to make
macaroni and cheese is Kraft's.
- I have a little bit of a higher budget
for my mac and cheese,
so, I go for that white cheddar.
- All right, I like the powdered cheese.
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- All right.
- I didn't know we were going to be blindfolded.
- Yeah, I guess, I think I want to smell it first.
All right, am I going first?
- Yeah. (sniffing)
- Oh, I know this.
(sniffing)
(laughter)
All right. - I recognize that smell.
- The scent is familiar.
A little powdery, perhaps.
- All right, this is very cheesy.
The noodles are small.
- Small enough to fit in a box some would say.
Mushy.
- The noodles are a little mushy
and the cheese is a bit grainy.
- [Diana] I would say even like, artificial.
- The cheese is, I wish I could see the color.
Is it like super orange?
That's how I'm envisioning it in my mind.
- The cheese wasn't like grated, that's for sure,
but it's comforting.
- It tastes like childhood.
Not as smooth as I would like
my macaroni and cheese to be.
Wanna smell it?
- Yeah, I do.
Mmmmm, I smell a little bit of garlic.
- All right.
- You hear that cheese?
- I did.
- That's penne, the pasta.
- Wow, that was whack.
- [Female Interviewer] Do you think different quality
mac and cheeses sound different?
- This one sounded more saucy.
I heard the cheese when I lifted the noodle.
It's a penne noodle.
I would think this one is probably a bit more
expensive than the previous one.
- Yeah.
- And I did smell garlic.
More than just cheese. - I almost like, taste flour.
Like it taste like a cheese sauce that was made
and I taste a lot of the flour.
It's not that cheesy.
It's more like garlicky and buttery.
Yeah, it's less mushy.
- This noodle is better than the previous noodle.
A higher quality noodle.
(laughing)
Got it.
I don't really smell that much stuff.
- Oh my gosh.
What?
I smell it, I smell--
- Let me move it around.
- I smell like a smoky.
I'm hoping it has some bacon in it.
- Something's up.
- Something's up (laughing).
It doesn't smell like cheese.
- It doesn't smell like a regular cheese.
There's something in it.
- [Diana] Bacon.
- You tasted it? - Yeah.
- Without me? - Sorry.
- Mmm, bacon, yes.
Definitely the noodle is,
what is the name of this noodle?
The one that's like.
It's a different noodle.
It's the spiral one.
It's not elbow, but it has bacon in it,
so, that's good.
And the sauce is not grainy.
There's garlic.
- It's more creamy.
- [Yolie] They definitely took their time making this one.
- It has like crunchy things.
I'm guessing it's like baked.
- There's something in there as well.
They put garlic in it.
I can taste garlic along with the bacon
and there's something on it.
Is there like breadcrumbs mixed in it?
Texturally it's a lot different than the other two.
- And the bacon helps, for sure.
I think that the first one we had was the cheapest one.
- Yes.
- I'm willing to bet is was Kraft's.
- [Diana] For sure.
- The third one was the best one.
- Yeah.
- I would say that was probably the most expensive one.
- I wanna say the one right here
is definitely the cheapest.
- I don't know where you're pointing.
- I'm talking to the camera.
The one right here, the Kraft one
is definitely the cheapest.
- The one on this side.
- But between these two,
I feel like maybe this one is more expensive,
so it might be this.
- I don't know what you're doing.
- I'm not talking to you.
I think the one with the bacon might be
the second cheapest and then, I know,
but the one in the middle might be the most.
Cause it was like, trying too hard.
- She thinks you're trying to trick her.
- Yeah.
- I'm gonna go with this is the cheapest one over here.
And then the middle one is the second.
- Yeah, no, I'm gonna agree with you.
- And then the last one by me is the most expensive one.
It is orange!
- Oh geez.
Yeah, that's the stuff though, so orange.
- [Female Interviewer] All right, you guys were right.
- Yay!
- You were more right.
You stuck to your guns, I doubted.
- Man, if I was wrong I was gonna quit my job.
What is this?
It's really good.
- [Female Interviewer] It's a William and Sonoma
and it costs $100.
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- (beep) William and Sonoma.
- (beep) Will--
- That is crazy.
A hundred dollars?
What are they, is there like a 50 under there?
- Under the plate?
- Damn.
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