{"id":80,"date":"2009-01-14T21:58:02","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T02:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/?p=80"},"modified":"2013-04-30T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T22:00:00","slug":"kool-aid-disposal-strawberry-kraft-macaroni-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/14\/kool-aid-disposal-strawberry-kraft-macaroni-cheese\/","title":{"rendered":"Kool-Aid Disposal: Strawberry Kraft Macaroni &#038; Cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-81\" title=\"strawberry-kraft-macaroni-and-cheese\" src=\"\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/strawberry-kraft-macaroni-and-cheese.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/strawberry-kraft-macaroni-and-cheese.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/strawberry-kraft-macaroni-and-cheese-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 Kraft Macaroni &amp; Cheese box<\/li>\n<li>1 Strawberry Kool-Aid packet<\/li>\n<li>4 tablespoons Imperial butter<\/li>\n<li>1\/3 cup 2% milk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Preparation<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Adding the strawberry kool-aid at the same time as the dry cheese mix felt like a horrible, horrible idea.\u00a0 So, in order to give this a chance at being edible, I decided to pour the kool-aid in just as the water started to boil.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-82\" title=\"adding-koolaid\" src=\"\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/adding-koolaid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/adding-koolaid.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/adding-koolaid-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With every second, I feared that a police officer would bust down my door and assume I had a nice pot of boiling blood going.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-83\" title=\"boiling-blood\" src=\"\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/boiling-blood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/boiling-blood.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/boiling-blood-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With temporary insanity as my copilot, we started takeoff procedures.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-84\" title=\"adding-macaroni\" src=\"\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/adding-macaroni.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/adding-macaroni.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/adding-macaroni-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yep, the kool-aid seemed to stain the macaroni just fine.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-85\" title=\"stained-macaroni\" src=\"\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/stained-macaroni.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/stained-macaroni.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/stained-macaroni-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was when I started to get that &#8216;what the hell am I doing&#8217; feeling in my kidneys.\u00a0 The fully stained and cooked macaroni certainly looked&#8230; interesting.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86\" title=\"macaroni-result\" src=\"\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/macaroni-result.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/macaroni-result.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/macaroni-result-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With a strange, robotic resolve, my arms poured the strawberry macaroni in with the milk and butter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-87\" title=\"back-in-the-pan\" src=\"\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/back-in-the-pan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/back-in-the-pan.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/back-in-the-pan-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had a brief hope that the red macaroni would be completely covered by neon-orange cheese.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88\" title=\"mixing-cheese\" src=\"\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/mixing-cheese.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/mixing-cheese.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/mixing-cheese-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A brief hope.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-89\" title=\"yummy\" src=\"\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/yummy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/yummy.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/yummy-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verdict<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Weird, very weird.<\/p>\n<p>The cheesy goodness is there, but it cannot fully mask the strange bitterness underneath.<\/p>\n<p>If you ever had one of those &#8220;oh fuck, where&#8217;s the milk?&#8221; moments after you&#8217;ve boiled your macaroni, and you end up skipping the milk entirely, it tastes similar to that.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not nearly that bad, though.<\/p>\n<p>Oddly, I didn&#8217;t taste a hint of strawberry until a few minutes after my last bite.\u00a0 This strawberry hint taunted my tongue for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n<p>I actually thought I had ate it in entirety, but long after the sun fell from the sky I noticed half of the batch remained.\u00a0 This remaining portion sits in my refrigerator.\u00a0 Waiting.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68\" title=\"koolaid-average\" src=\"\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/koolaid-average.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/koolaid-average.png 294w, https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/koolaid-average-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingredients 1 Kraft Macaroni &amp; Cheese box 1 Strawberry Kool-Aid packet 4 tablespoons Imperial butter 1\/3 cup 2% milk Preparation Adding the strawberry kool-aid at the same time as the dry cheese mix felt like a horrible, horrible idea.\u00a0 So, in order to give this a chance at being edible, I decided to pour the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kool-aid-disposal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}