Last night I wanted nachos, so I synthesized some sodium citrate (as you do), and

If you want to make nachos from scratch, first you must synthesize the sodium citrate.
— Carl Sagan, probably

So far my experiments in actually USING it to make nacho sauce haven't been particularly successful though.

okay so according to huffpost.com/entry/nacho-chees the trick is to dissolve it in a little liquid and then stir the grated cheese into the liquid

given that I feel like I didn't need to convert all my citric acid to sodium citrate, I could have just started nacho cheese sauce out by putting a pinch of each into the pot and let it react right before adding the cheese. Oh well.

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