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- Hey everyone, my name is Jesse.
And today I'm gonna be testing four famous
celebrity mac and cheese recipes
to see which one is actually the best.
I'll be testing recipes from Patti LaBelle,
Gordon Ramsay, Khloe Kardashian
and I even have one from Rihanna.
I measure everything up, how the recipe stated
and I got three of my friends to taste it
in a blind taste test.
So which one's gon' be best?
It's about to get cheesy.
First up, is Patti LaBelle.
She cooks her pasta in salted water
with a bit of oil, drains it, then returns it to the pot.
In a large bowl, combine shredded muenster,
both mild and sharp cheddars, and monterey jack cheese.
Add some half-and-half to the pasta,
along with a cube Velveeta cheese,
melted butter and mix it in.
Add even more cheese, keep stirring it
and season it with seasoned salt, pepper and kosher salt.
Transfer into a prepared baking casserole dish
and top with more cheese and a few dots of butter.
Bake until nice and bubbly.
And serve.
- We have some browning over here which is exciting.
- We got a nice texture.
- Hmm.
- There's some beautiful pockets of cheese,
like, just creamy, it's actually delicious.
- Very cheesy.
Reminds me of craft mac and cheese.
But I do enjoy it.
It has nothing on top, don't have no pepper flakes,
like nothing is going on to make me say,
this is some real sexy mac and cheese.
This is boring.
- Up next is Khloe Kardashian.
She starts by cooking macaroni in salted water
until al dente and drains it.
Heat some butter until melted,
then whisk in some flour and cook for about two minutes.
Add some milk and whisk until thickened.
And this is where it gets kinda weird.
You're gonna chop up some american cheese.
Add it straight to the sauce.
Then add some shredded cheddar.
Stir until melted.
Add paprika and egg yolk and whisk even more.
Add the pasta back in and stir so it coats.
Grab a mini muffin pan, brush with butter,
and sprinkle with some Parmesan cheese.
Spoon the prepared mac and cheese into it.
Top with even more Parmesan
and you're gonna bake these until sizzling.
Pop 'em out and these little guys are done.
- It looks like I can take this down in one bite.
- Mad and cupcake.
I like this one.
- Presentation-wise, okay, yeah it's cute.
But I feel bamboozled with the amount I'm getting.
This one's alright.
- You got a good macaroni to cheese ratio.
- If I went to the grocery store,
and I walk by one of the little machines
with the toys in it.
And one of the toys was the plastic mac and cheese toy
that I could get for 25 cents.
That's what I'm chewing up right now.
- Next up, is Gordon Ramsay.
He cooks cauliflower in salted water until tender.
He fishes it out, drops them in a bowl of ice water
to prevent it from cooking any further.
Then he adds macaroni straight to that pot
of cauliflower water and cooks it until tender.
He drains and he mixes it with the cooked cauliflower
and a few knobs of butter and lets that melt in.
Put that aside, heat some butter in a pan
and add flour and mustard powder to make a roux.
Gradually add some milk so it thickens up
and keep whisking until it gets nice and thick.
Season with cayenne pepper and salt.
In a bowl, mix three cheeses together,
cheddar, Lincolnshire and Cheshire.
Add those back into the sauce and stir until melted.
Add the cooked macaroni and cauliflower.
Mix it up to coat and spread that into a large baking dish.
And smooth it out on top.
Combine the extra cheese
with some fresh breadcrumbs and thyme
and sprinkle that right on top.
Bake until nice and golden.
And that's about it.
- We got some like, little crusties on here.
- This got a little crunch to it.
- The crunchy stuff is delicious.
I think it could be cheesier.
- Alright, that's good.
It tastes like a fluffy cloud,
and then we get the little slice of heaven.
- I do like the way that this tastes.
I don't know what's on it.
It's got that mac and cheese with a twist.
- It might be cauliflower.
Someone important made this mac and cheese.
- Eating this mac and cheese is like eating a great steak.
- This is like Miss Congeniality mac and cheese.
It help people out but it did not necessarily
give enough to win the crown of the best mac and cheese.
Up next is Rihanna.
She cooks macaroni in boiling water, then drains it.
Place it back on the stove and add grated white onion,
julienne bell pepper and some sliced spring onions.
And mix that all in.
Next, add a quarter cup of both ketchup and mustard
as well as some spicy scotch bonnet pepper sauce.
Then mix that all in.
Add a handful of shredded colby-jack cheese at a time.
Stirring until melted.
And add some water if it gets too thick.
Once it's the right consistency,
garnish with some more spring onions and that's it.
- It looks cheesy as hell.
- This is real festive.
- Some real strong in here.
- The whole pepper, the action that's happening,
they are making it an exciting experience.
- I taste the peppers.
It's actually pretty hot.
- Closing my throat up a little bit.
- There was some love put into making this mac and cheese
stand out from the rest.
- I definitely pass on this one.
- Which celebrity has the best mac and cheese recipe?
Let's find out.
- Out of all the celebrity mac and cheese,
I think my favorite would have to be number three.
Mainly because the addition with the cauliflower
made it just stand out from all the rest.
Wasn't a really cheesy and I'm not kidding
when I say, I can compare it to a great steak.
Gordon Ramsay, always coming in.
Right at the last minute.
- I like number one the best.
It was like the right types of cheese.
It was like, pockets of like, gooey cheese.
Perfect comforting mac and cheese.
Patti LaBelle?
Hell yeah.
- The one that I can say stood out the most to me,
number four, it had some color in there,
a little spicy into it.
It was a different take on it.
That's Rihanna?
Makes sense.
- So I heard I'm the tie breaker
for the celebrity mac and cheese.
Let's go.
This one's colorful.
I don't like this one.
I don't really like peppers, I guess, so.
I feel like you shouldn't put too much
extra shit in mac and cheese.
This one's good, there's different
types of cheeses on this one.
I don't like this one either.
This one is my favorite one.
- There you have it, Gordon Ramsay
has the best mac and cheese.
(triumphant music)