Cheddar Cheese Powder, 1 lb. by Barry Farm (3 Pack)

This makes a delicious cheese sauce, very similar to kraft. Others who have said it doesn't dissolve well maybe just need to add a little more liquid? I found it dissolves just fine. Also, it DOES reheat much better than the boxed mac n cheese. Really good on popcorn. My main incentive for buying it was that I have recently had to stop eating gluten and the gluten-free mac and cheese kits are so expensive! It has been really convenient to have on hand with some pre cooked noodles I keep in the fridge for my 2 year old also, who asks for Mac n Cheese almost everyday lately! My only complaint is that it does have the artificial coloring...the ones kraft just took out of theirs. Otherwise really happy with this product.

I was looking for a cheese powder, so I would not have to buy and refrigerate solid cheese from the store, and so I would have a quick means of making cheese sauce for pasta. The Cheddar Cheese Powder bags (1lb) from Barry Farm work well for this.The powder is extremely fine, so it does tend to clump together, if pouring the powder from the bag. It is no doubt intended to be this fine, so it can be added as a baking ingredient.I've gone through approximately 1/3 pound of the bag after ~10 days of regular use, making lots of cheese sauce bowl-by-bowl for cooked pasta shells. Usually, the water that remains after boiling pasta in a pot, is enough to reconstitute the cheese from the powder. For specific recipes, it is best to measure the precise amount you would like to use, but I have not used the powder in recipes yet.Taste of the cheese as a sauce is mild, but then again I am not usually adding a strong dose of powder for making the cheese sauce.It might be advisable to have something to scrape the powder out of the pouch, as it tends to clump easily. The pouch is not resealable, so if you don't have a container for the powder, be sure to have some tight bag clips on hand, and press as much air out of the pouch before clipping it, to keep out the moisture.

Bought this for my son who loves macaroni and cheese. Problem is he doesn't think his mac and cheese it's cheesy enough with the little cheese pack that comes in the box. So he uses two cheese packs per batch and ends up with several boxes of leftover noodles. He found this cheese powder online and wanted to give it a try. When it arrived we had to make up a batch. Lo and behold, it does taste just like the Kraft Macaroni and Cheese mix. You can mix it to your own level of cheesyness and not have leftover noodles. He loves it and I'm glad to see the extra noodles used up. Unfortunately at the rate he's going through it, it's not going to last very long.

I bought this cheddar cheese powder to make cheese popcorn, and it doesn't disappoint. My father in law who claims to not like cheese, loves the cheese popcorn I with this. I make my popcorn using Snappy Popcorn coconut oil then flavor it with Gold Medal Flavacol Seasoning Popcorn Salt. Don't skip the salt, if you skip salting the popcorn the cheese will taste flat. After you season the popcorn you can put the cheese on. It works much better if the popcorn is still warm, if it isn't the cheese doesn't stick as well. Lastly you have to toss the popcorn around, the cheese will mix around if you give the popcorn a few good tosses, if you don't toss it, the cheese will just fall to the bottom.This cheese also makes a really good mac and cheese.

I've been looking for this for 30 years. I boldly assert that this is IDENTICAL, flavor-wise, to the Kraft mac-and-cheese powder. I'm pretty sure I've tried every form of boxed mac-and-cheese and can't begin to count the thousands of boxes that I and my family have gone through so I'm pretty confident in the accuracy of the prior sentence. In our house, whenever we make mac-and-cheese, we use extra packets of cheese, leaving orphaned boxes of uncooked noodles for later use. In the last two weeks, we've burned through three pounds of the Barry Farm cheese and a bunch of boxes of unloved pasta. Here's what I've learned:1. As other reviewers have mentioned, you really can't use this exactly like you would the real Kraft powder. It will clump into little chewy cheese nuggets that don't quite work like the Kraft powder. You should mix the powder with a small amount of water/milk, making a paste, prior to adding it to your cooked pasta. As the cheese powder rehydrates, it will thicken a bit. If you plan to use it later, make it slightly runnier than you'd like. It'll firm up.2. You don't NEED salt, milk, or butter. I prefer adding a bit of butter to the cooked pasta, but it's just fine to add the cheese, alone, to the noodles.3. This is fantastic for leftover mac-and-cheese. Kraft veterans know that leftover Kraft dinner is never quite the same as a fresh pot. The Barry Farm powder, however, completely turns that notion on its head. Add some of the paste to day old mac-and-cheese, reheat, and it's as good as when it was first made.4. This is great for independent children. :) My 6-year-old can take some cooked pasta (stored in a zip-top bag), stir in some of the cheese-paste and reheat it for a quick one bowl snack/meal, very much like EasyMac, only significantly better tasting.5. You'll use more of this to flavor your mac-and-cheese than you would if it were the real Kraft powder. Not a lot more, but it doesn't seem to be a 1:1 conversion.Yesterday, I ordered six more pounds of this stuff and will continue to keep it in our pantry for as long as it's available. If it came in 50-lb sacks, I'd buy that, too. It's a fantastic product and I'm thrilled to have found it.