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Why the skepticism about the apple pie? A slice of melted cheddar cheese on apple pie is very much a thing and has been around longer than ice cream on apple pie. I'm guessing 1700s or 1800s?
Hey David! I actually work at the Cheez-It bakery, ordering all the materials, including THE Cheez-It cheese. Fun fact: the cheese comes from Idaho. Also, it takes 24 hours to make a Cheez-It.
to be totally fair to you, even though sweet cheese/cheddar-flavoured desserts are popular in certain countries (the phillipines comes to mind) i could not name a place where they regularly put soggy cheese crackers in thinned ice cream
It used to be common in New England to eat a chunk of cheddar with a slice of apple pie. It's not bad but I ultimately ate the pie and saved the cheese for later.
It's mostly a very northeastern thing, primarily in New England states. The majority of states usually accompany apple pie with a small scoop of vanilla ice cream, aka. pie a la mode.
As an upstate New Yorker I grew up eating a slice or two of sharp white cheddar with apple pie. It is a surprisingly effective combination and very much worth you trying. I expected more out of the recipe honestly. Also, yeah crushed up cheez-its on top make about any Mac n cheese better. I was stuck in a physical rehab facility with horrible food re-learning to walk a while back and that was one of the few self made meals that helped me get through it
So in my state and in Wisconsin you go to the local apple orchards and you can get a slice of warm apple pie with either a scoop of ice cream or a slice of cheddar cheese. Yes it's a thing around here and apple pie with cheddar cheese is awesome.
Dang I was so close to meeting you! This is right down the road from me. I really dug the milkshake personally, but I agree with the Burger, it was pretty nothing. Grilled Cheese and Biscuits were the best. Not sure if you saw too, but they had some free postcards with recipes on the back, so you can recreate some of the items at home!
Hi from the family sitting next to you at the Cheez-In Diner. Glad to have met you. Awesome review. We felt the same about the food. We are going to try your Mac and Cheese Recipe❤❤
my two favorite cheez-it applications are to make nachos with them instead of chips, or dip them in cottage cheese with chives (the snapped regular flavor are really good for that as are the spicy ones)
For the Mac and Cheese. I'd suggest just blending up the steeped cheezits till smooth and use that in the sauce or blend up cheezits finely and sived and used as flour. That would truly amp up the flavors!
Love your channel. Hopefully you can try the NYTimes Mixed Apples Pie recipe sometime. Your instinct to use red and green apples is right on, but if you use 4-5 different kinds of apples you get something entirely off the charts. Thanks for your work!
Cheese in a pie crust reminded me of this recipe from Sally's Baking Addiction - the Apple Cheddar Pie. Tried it once and it proved to be a great idea!
I am SO sad the Cheez-it restaurant happened to be so underwhelming for you! I am glad though that most recipes you've tested (and created) really made up for it! Hoping they take notes of your mac & cheese and make theirs better!
David, ah the memories of my wild misspent youth happily crunching down on Cheez-its and Chicken-in-a-Biscuit, I probably owe to them my undying love for high umami foods...natural cheeses and MSG. I thought you might make a crunchy cheeze it topping with crumbled up crackers sauteed in butter. I think I always thought the original crackers lacked butter. I would often spread a bit of better butter on top. I met a girl from Wisconsin in college (1970) who told me that by LAW apple pie has to have either a slice of cheddar on it or Ice cream. I tried the cheddar apple pie combo ONCE. after years of making apple pies I found the only solution to avoiding soggy crust is to fully prepare and thicken the apple filling first. let it cool. then construct your pie and bake it only to cook the crust. I also paint the bottom crust with egg wash and bake it slightly to 'water proof' it. then add the filling and put on the lid. Always enjoy your content. All the Best Jim Mexico
The pie crust was basically diluted cheez-its when you think about it because you added flour… which they’re already made of. Maybe if you had added cheese or processed the crackers even more to make them into a fine powder essentially making a cheez-it flour the flavor would have come through better.
Recommend using the homemade cheezits as the pie crust for more cheese flavor? Def would recommend rough crushing cheez its to toss with some parm and melted butter for a crust on twice baked mac and cheese to serve w sprinkle of tabasco on top.
Yeah I'm not a snack person. I don't like chips, pretzels, crackers, popcorn, goldfish, etc. But man do I love me some cheez-its. They hit different. So good.
I love chocolate shakes and I love cheezits. In fact, they pair very well as a midnight snack. However, if you put those cheezits in the shake and served it to me I would cry.
A Cheez-it hamburger would be a little difficult to pull off well, but I wonder if using Cheez-its as the soaked bread component of meatballs would work better. Put whole Cheez-its into a bowl, add some milk, wait until they're soggy and add them to meat and seasoning. Oh! Maybe try it as meatloaf, with both soaked and 'dry' Cheez-its mixed in. Make a cheese sauce for either one.
I greatly prefer Better Cheddars, which don't seem to be popular at all. I think Cheez Its have a very strong, weird sour flavor. (Goldfish are also good, but in my opinion Better Cheddars are best.)
Cheese goes with apple pie. Put a slice of extra sharp cheddar on top of a warm slice of apple pie and let it melt just a bit, it is really awesome. Seems like a strange combo but yeah, cheese and apple pie is a good combo so I knew a CHEEZ-IT crust would be fine.
Question: what part of the USA are you in? Mostly because combining a slice of apple pie with a slice of melted cheddar cheese is primarily best-known in the northeastern USA.
I'm sure the milkshake would've been better without the chocolate syrup they seem to have put in there. Just a plain vanilla milkshake with maybe some caramel might have worked well.
You should make southern style baked mac n cheese (like how a lot of black creators make it!) and while i think breadcrumbs on mac n cheese is bad, maybe crushed cheez-its will be good!
A couple of comments: First, on the homemade crackers, maybe a touch of food coloring might've helped with the color? Second, on the mac-and-cheese, I just do NOT understand the fascination for white cheddar, especially in mac-and-cheese. It's literally the most visually boring combination in existence. Using it as one of several cheeses is okay but I still want my mac-and-cheese to have a nice yellow-orange color (even regular cheddar tends to "dull" down colorwise, especially when blended). Finally, on the apple pie, why didn't you taste the crust before baking? I know there's some concern about raw flour consumption (funny how we only used to be concerned about raw eggs and now, there are concerns about raw flour--amazing) but I'd think you'd have been able to get a hint of how much cheese (or Cheez-It) flavor would come out of the oven if you sampled the crust dough before baking. Maybe using one of the "extra" varieties might've imparted more of the flavor you wanted?
Once again I'm struck by how much content david shoves into one video. Other content creators would devote a whole video to the cheez-in restaurant and another to his receeation of the recipe, or at least make the video 45 min long, but here his is at a svelte 13 minutes long instead!
Why were all the main dishes at the Cheez-It restaurant the same price? I mean, I know they are all overly-inflated; but in what world is a small bowl of pasta (which appears to have no vegetables or protein added to make it more satiating) worth the same price as a burger and fries? Insane,
