[exmadscientist]

Like many people, I've been making Kraft macaroni and cheese for decades by this point. The recipe is on the box. It's not hard to make.

Or at least, it didn't used to be hard to make. Whatever they've done to the stuff recently, they've actually broken the instructions. It no longer even cooks correctly. Three cooking failures in a row, means I will never buy your product again. Why should I? There's a dozen alternatives. Most are either unhealthy or don't taste right to at least one member of the family, but there's a dozen of them... one worked out.

I'm angry and I'm not going back.

[pimlottc]

Broken how? It’s one of the simplest recipes I can think of. Boil pasta until done, drain, add butter, milk, powder, return to heat, mix.

[explodes]

Whatever the pasta is now, it cooks quite differently. You'll get softer noodles much quicker, and will congeal into a blob unlike the old recipe. Additionally the water gets extra starchy with the new recipe. I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else but the quantity per box has decreased as well. Special shapes came in smaller weights, but now even the regular box does too.

[Zacru]

They changed something about the noodles and now they are way overcooked if you follow the box instructions. And you need way more butter to get a similar flavor to before.