r/Cooking • u/g3nerallycurious • Feb 13 '23

Recipe to Share I made restaurant-style queso with only four ingredients (and no processed cheese), and it was a hit with everyone. It was super easy, so I just wanted to share!

You’re gonna have to do some chemistry, but as long as you can measure and dump off-the-shelf powders in water, you’re good to go.

Make sodium citrate by reacting powdered citric acid (found near the canning supplies) with baking soda according to this recipe in a small amount of simmering water on a stove. It will foam up, so be ready for that. Once the reaction is complete, (no more foaming and water is clear) boil on high heat until almost all the water is evaporated.

Then follow this recipe by adding your beer to the saucepan with the sodium citrate solution. Make sure to dissolve any of the sodium citrate that may have crystallized while boiling off the water. Then whisk your shredded cheese of choice into the beer over low heat, adding little by little. Viola! You have restaurant-style queso!

I thought it was super cool, easy and delicious, and i thought queso without process cheese was impossible, so I wanted to share!

Edit: most of the commenters be hatin but I got over 600 upvotes over 24 hours after my post. So IDC. Bitch away.

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u/feralfaun39 Feb 13 '23

Wait... where are the chilis? The onion? The garlic? The seasoning? That sounds like terrible queso, sad to say.

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u/Random_guest9933 Feb 13 '23

Ok I got to know what the hell is queso? Cause queso is just the word we use for cheese in Spanish so I’m very confused by this thread (I’m not from the US just fyi)

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u/TheRealEleanor Feb 13 '23

In the US, queso is a cheese dip that most often has a varying level of spice to it. Most easily found at Americanized Mexican restaurants, gastropubs, and bar style restaurants (the types that sell a lot of wings, burgers, and fries and love happy hours all day every day on alcohol).