to think that you shouldn't put egg in macaroni cheese

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I just had some lunch which a colleague offered me. She said it was macaroni cheese. It was solid and the cheese sauce was the consistency of scrambled egg. There was no sauce, it was more like a bake.

Aibu to think that this is just wrong. No sauce to soak into the pasta, but dry and eggy.

If she had said it was a pasta bake, now that would have explained it....

Yanbu nothing else to say

bizarre! And yes, there should be no egg in macaroni cheese

Yabu

there should be egg and ham in macaroni cheese.

DH's nan makes something similar and calls it macaroni cheese. More like a macaroni casserole and nothing like the British version I'm used to.

Bloody lovely though.

That sounds gross

Was it some weird diet version where, to avoid using a teaspoon of cornflour to thicken the sauce, it was made with eggs and fat free fromage frais instead to make it 'free' on the diet plan?

Hard boiled eggs and bits of ham would be fine in normal cheese sauce, except that I don't like hardboiled eggs unless mashed up with mayonnaise.

Eurgh cornflour doesn't belong in macaroni cheese either OnIlk unless you are incapable of making a cheese sauce.

I have an aunt who adds an egg to her sauce but just one egg for enough to feed 6. Her macaroni isn't solid but isn't the best either mostly as she uses mild cheddar though.

I have to disagree - but they need to be boiled, and nestled in whole, to provide a nice protein surprise.

Personally I don't like it too runny, but it should definitely be smooth, ideally I can slice it and have it cold with ketchup if any is left the next day. I freely admit I might be a wrongun.

YANBU. Egg has no place in macaroni cheese!

Urgh, what a nightmare! I love macaroni cheese but can't stand eggs, if I found one in any form in my food I would be horrified. This might have come from This Morning - they made macaroni cheese on that last week which included an egg, he cracked it into the cooked pasta and sauce and stirred it in, raw, before whacking it under the grill for 3 minutes. Foul.

YADNBU. Yuck!

This is exactly how my mum makes it - layers of pasta, layer or chese, layer of pasta etc then a mixture of egg and milk poured over then more cheese - served with peas and mccain oven chips - the taste of my childhood!! I have tried introducing this meal to DH and the DC's but they just turn their noses up!!

Honestly its really really yummy, just not a macaroni cheese as you woul expect!

I am Swedish and our version of Macaroni Cheese is more like a macaroni bake as in raw eggs mixed in with the macaronis and baked in the oven and then cheese on top. We tend to have some bacon or meat in it as well though

YABU. Macaroni cheese is a very personal thing. You can put what you want in it and just don't be surprised if someone turns their nose up at it.

Am proposing to make Delia's souffled macaroni cheese this weekend.

YABU, because your question should be AIBU to think my friends mac cheese was fucking awful, instead of trying to encompass everyone elses recipes that could be fabulous with egg in.
Wrong question entirely.

US Southern style macaroni and cheese has a custard base.

If I saw someone cracking a raw egg into an otherwise normal pasta and cheese sauce combo, I'd assume they were having a breakdown.

hmmm that does sound most peculiar.

I actually can see Macaroni Cheese with half boiled eggs nestled in, as ever I'd embellish with MORE cheese and bacon on top, but whipping in some sort of egg into the pasta or sauce is filthy and most definitely not in a good way.

I make mine with boiled pasta, shaken round a dish with lots of grated cheese, a cheesey mustardy sauce over the lot, and lovely thick bacon laid over the top and then more grated cheese, and into the oven until it's all golden and sizzling.

I'm not at all keen on the sort of macaroni cheese that is just boiled pasta and sauce either...that's also an abomination.

Are you sure there was egg, and it wasn't just a baked macaroni cheese?

Boakety Boak.

Y'all need to try this and tell me eggs don't belong in macaroni and cheese. (You can use light cream for the half and half)

www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Southern-Style-Macaroni-and-Cheese

This custard-based style mac and cheese is traditional for Thanksgiving in the South, especially in African American families.

Escoffier has a recipe for a cheese sauce made with eggs. If its good enough for him, pretty sure its an ok thing to do.

YANBU. Macaroni cheese shouldn't be available in slices.

I shouldn't have clicked on this thread, I want macaroni cheese now.

Well.... No to egg in macaroni cheese.

But carbonara is eggs and cheese mixed through the pasta - the heat makes them cook through. So other people ABU