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It will seem a bit soupy, but it will thicken up nicely.Turn the crockpot to the "keep warm" setting, cover, and leave it alone for 45 minutes. The heat of the noodles should finish melting the cheese.

When the noodles are cooked, drain them ad add them to the crockpot, and stir to combine. While the noodles are cooking, put the evaporated milk, creme fraiche, cheeses, salt, pepper, and mustard into the crockpot on high heat, stirring occasionally. Elbow macaroni is traditional for mac and cheese, but you can use other shapes, if you prefer.Ĥ ounces gruyere or emmentaler cheese, shreddedĬook the noodles in salted boiling water until barely cooked through. The super-cheap ones can get mushy too fast. One key to getting this to work is to use good-quality noodles. It had good flavor, good texture, and it worked in the crock pot. It took some tweaking, but finally I got a recipe I liked. You want to be able to cover it and walk away from it - at least for a little while. But all that stirring defeats the purpose of using a crockpot.

If you're cooking in a pot on the stove, the stirring you do distributes the heat and you can adjust the heat. The first few times I tried making mac and cheese in the crockpot, it was fine for a short time, but it wasn't long before it was overheating along the sides, and that was the end of smooth sauce. Slow cookers are supposed to cook slowly, but they can still get warmer that you need them to be for mac and cheese. Velveeta melts smoothly, but aged cheddar can get grainy if you overheat it. And the better the cheese is, the more likely it is to go wrong.

Mac and cheese - if you're not using a box with powdered cheese or a block of Velveeta - can go horribly wrong if you aren't careful. I decided on cheddar and Swiss.įinally, I decided that I had to throw out all of the existing recipes and start from scratch. That also eliminated Velveeta and American cheese. The person who asked for the recipe specified that he wanted a recipe that used real cheese. I ignored all the recipes that used soup. Even if you're starting with dry noodles, like for a lasagna recipe, it's only a couple hours - not eight - before those things are cooked through. I tossed out most of the recipes.There's no reason to want to cook noodles for 8 hours, unless the whole point is to put the ingredients into the crock pot before you go to work. I've never considered the crock pot for making mac and cheese, but there were plenty or recipes online, so I figured it would be simple enough. So when my husband came home and said that someone at work had asked him if I had a good recipe for macaroni and cheese that could be made in a crock pot, I decided that I could certainly find or modify an existing recipe.