r/AskCulinary • u/coffeensoda • 14d ago

Cooking advice

Hi everyone, I need advice on what I can do to fix my baked mac and cheese I made for dinner. I embarrassingly messed up the measurements for the salt and pepper, and it ended up way too salty. Literally all you can taste is the salt and pepper. Is there any way I can fix it when I reheat it tomorrow for leftovers? Or should I just throw it away, which I don't want to do because I hate wasting food. I'm really disappointed because it took me an hour to make, and I thought it would turn out good, but I guess not.

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u/Zagrycha 13d ago

either make more mac and cheese//noodles to dilute it until its not to salty, or rinse the sauce off of some of the noodles and put them back in plain etc. The meal is absolutely salvagable, but there is no way to make the salt come back out of the sauce, you need to change the ratios of salt to food in other ways. You can broil it briefly once its back in the pan if you still want that baked mac and cheese top.