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Frozen mac and cheese divides Epicurious's expert panel

Jack Logue, Adam Jay Moskowitz and Shaw-naé Dixon taste supermarket staples, with Wegmans finding rare agreement.

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Pro Chefs Blind Taste Test Every Frozen Mac & Cheese | The Taste Panel | Epicurious

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0:15The panel judges creamy, cohesive sauce, big cheese flavor and properly cooked pasta.
3:51Amy's earns praise for natural cheese flavor and a smooth sauce made with sweet rice flour.
6:19Trader Joe's divides the panel, with Dixon appreciating its homestyle quality and Moskowitz criticizing mushy pasta.
9:07Wegmans earns praise for curly pasta, balanced sauce and American cheese used as a binding agent.
20:23Strong Roots draws praise for savory richness despite containing no actual cheese.
23:20The favorites discussion brings unanimous praise for Wegmans, with Amy's and Vital Pursuit also receiving top marks.

Penne is already a sticking point. "I hate penne macaroni and cheese, that's not baked ziti," Shaw-naé Dixon says during Epicurious's frozen-food taste test, neatly establishing that cheese expertise doesn't erase personal preference.

The week's most-watched upload puts Dixon alongside chef Jack Logue and cheese specialist Adam Jay Moskowitz for a blind tasting built around creamy sauce, convincing cheese flavor and properly cooked pasta. It has drawn roughly 241,000 views. Amy's earns praise for its smooth sauce, while Trader Joe's splits the panel: Dixon appreciates its homestyle character; Moskowitz finds the pasta mushy. That disagreement also supplies the week's newest standalone clip.

Wegmans provides a patch of common ground, earning praise across the panel for its curly pasta and balanced sauce. Moskowitz singles out the use of American cheese as a binding agent. Meanwhile, viewers have found a second attraction between tastings: the emphatic shots of bowls being tossed into the microwave. Several comments specifically thank the editing team for making reheating a running gag.

Epicurious posted three uploads, with "The Easiest Way to Stop Wasting Food" offering a much smaller intervention: label your food. Frank Proto's earlier meal-prepping guide remains among the channel's most active videos, alongside both mac-and-cheese uploads.

Subscribers were unchanged over the week, and daily views are running at less than half their usual level. Nearby in food, Andy Cooks is drawing above-usual daily views, while Jamie Oliver is also having a slower spell. For Epicurious, the liveliest new conversation is decidedly specific: whether comfort food should come in penne, curls or wagon wheels.

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What viewers say

Always fun to watch experts disagree.
@henke37See it on YouTube
the reckless abandon with which they whipped those bowls into the microwave just delighted me 😂
@ashe1317See it on YouTube
So funny that I paused this video in the middle to do errands, found wagon wheel mac n cheese, thought to myself "Wow I haven't seen this in years I love wagon wheels!" And then resumed the video to have my love of the wheels absolutely dunked on 😂
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An fyi for others: Epicurious did a video before on BOXED mac and cheese. This is an entire new video.
@xfacterm31See it on YouTube
And yet again, I thank the people who chuck the bowls into the microwave with unnecessary aggression
@DodoTheToadSee it on YouTube
I've always enjoyed these Blind Taste Test videos but the b-roll of the aggressive toss into the microwave of each dish was the chef's kiss. Thank you editing team! Well done!
@petedeptulaSee it on YouTube
Respect the wagon wheels!
@PolarVRSee it on YouTube
this proved that mac and cheese is indeed a VERY personal opinion
@lauree8165See it on YouTube
You should do yogurt brands there’s a lot of them next time
@_JessicaHuynhSee it on YouTube
FROZEN CHEESE STICKS NEXT
@StarryMangakaSee it on YouTube