I tried it first with today's 8th graders, because I felt they were best able to manage all the steps without burning the milk. They succeeded beautifully, which made me feel even worse that the taste was not that great. If I were 14, I would have preferred processed cheese food.
My fix for this will be to pre-cook the macaroni for the next class (6th graders on Thursday) so that they will just prepare the cheese sauce and can bake the mac and cheese in the oven as it should be. I should have known better than to try to short-cut a great thing!
Many great successes began first as failures, which forced someone to come up with a better way. I am confident I will find the perfect mac and cheese for consumer science class!
If you have prepared no-bake mac and cheese and found it amazing, please share your recipe here!