Simple, Easy Nacho Cheese Sauce from Scratch

Justin Warner walks us through an easy, simple recipe breakdown of the classic creamy, smooth nacho cheese sauce for all your tortilla chip dreams.

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[snortonnn]

Im obsessed with nacho cheese. Saving this for later!

[bonuspal]

As a guy who orders the Taco Bell Nacho Bell Grande from time to time I approve this.

[dynguskhan]

You mentioned citric acid as the emulsifier. I don’t have sodium citrate but I do have citric acid. Do I use sodium bicarbonate to convert it into sodium cirtrate or will cirtic acid work?

[thegodofpez]

So glad to see him moving up in the culinary world.

[Crokuz]

The fact that "Nacho” is a perfect mnemonic for trisodium citrate's chemical formula is actually so wild

[egrace]

I’m giving this try and was happy to see this wasn’t another flour and butter roux recipe- I know this is going to be a silly question, but why water and not milk?

[stephaniehowe]

I have made cheese sauce before I uses milk not water.
No extra sodium citrate

[mergall]

Tried making this you never said how much to use it is gross

[PhilippineExpat]

1/2 a cup of water
14 grams of sodium citrate

[UCUZWEBEyTToGrDWGVEpg]

this looks like the taco bell cheese sauce

[HolySoopCoolers]

I mean anybody with even a fraction of kitchen “know-how” can surmise this will suck.

[christianoliver]

By cooking regular cheese with sodium citrate you're basically making Velveeta.
So why not just use that or another 'processed' cheesefood.

[alfredosanchez]

I tried it and it sucked. Why mess with my emotions. Easy good tasting sauce??? Smh

[redstone]

Why make a video and not list the quantity of each ingredient? 👎

[rickwilliams]

Please stop putting Sriracha in everything. It's disgusting and doesn't belong in everything. Same with the excessive use of plastic cheese.