Originally Posted by
JBord
I've made different cheese sauces before using real cheese. The problem with them is that as soon as I add that liquid, it seems to dilute the cheese flavor, even when you use milk or cream. I like beer or white wine cheese sauce, but it's not for nachos or queso dip IMO.
That said, I didn't know about sodium citrate. Is it available in grocery stores...in other words any way I can try it without committing to "a tub of it from Amazon"?
You might be able to find it at the grocery store. Another name for it is "sour salt". The "
" I got was $15 and is about a pound. It's not gigantic. And the advantage is that sodium citrate only requires a little bit of liquid so you really just get melty cheese. You want the kind that is granular and looks like salt/sugar, not the liquid type. It's also good for fixing a sauce that's cracked.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nacho...rate_n_6108794
https://modernistcuisine.com/recipes/melty-queso-dip/