How do you make 'proper' gravy?

[johnnymarrsbars]

You can't just blend up a pot of white gravypaste in a mug and add it at the last second for best results. You need to heat and caress a beautiful roux into ecstatic abandon.

WHOOAAAAH stop right there. i said you add the cornflour solution THEN reduce the gravy! that way the flour still cooks, thickens up the gravy you get no lumps AND you cant taste it.


seriously dude, trust me. i've always had compliments on how nice my gravy is

 

[tarannau]

I'm afraid that oxo and boiled cornflour stuff may cut it at Butlin's Minehead gravy talent show, but that just isn't enough to convince the tougher judges of GravyIdol X.

<pulls trousers up and looks increasingly self important>

 

[madzone]

seriously dude, trust me. i've always had compliments on how nice my gravy is

Link!!!

 

[ScallyWag II]

I was watching a Gery Rhodes programme and he floured the meat first and said that would thicken the sauce at the end. Never tried it not being a meat eater like.

 

[moomoo]

I'm so glad I asked.



*head explodes*

 

[johnnymarrsbars]

Link!!!

i mean in the 'real world'



i know..the world, OUTSIDE, like...with REAL people...


i'm scared of it too.

 

[Gromit]

The Marius method:

• Go to mum's house.
• Receive blocks of frozen gravy
• Take home and put in freezer
• Defrost as required.

Its easy peasy folks.

 

[Detroit City]

The Marius method:

I wonder if me mum could send me frozen food from the afterlife

 

[Gromit]

I wonder if me mum could send me frozen food from the afterlife

Well UPS covers most places these days.

Mmmm this gravy is heavenly

 

[felixthecat]

Sorry, but Madzone is completely right on this one. Th only variation is to add a leetle bit of browning (we make our own - better innit, Xanadu?) if it looks a bit pale.

Never use cornflour - makes it kinda gloopy I find. Proper flour all the way baby!

 

[Detroit City]

Well UPS covers most places these days.

Never use cornflour - makes it kinda gloopy I find

when you refer to corn flour do you mean corn starch? white powder that is very fine

 

[Guineveretoo]

when you refer to corn flour do you mean corn starch? white powder that is very fine

It's flour made from corn. I don't know what it is called in Foreign Parts, but it is certainly a fine flour and it is certainly white, and it is certainly a powder, so yeah, maybe you call it corn starch.

 

[Xanadu]

Sorry, but Madzone is completely right on this one. Th only variation is to add a leetle bit of browning (we make our own - better innit, Xanadu?) if it looks a bit pale.

Never use cornflour - makes it kinda gloopy I find. Proper flour all the way baby!

I just use the bottle of gravy browning my mum keeps in the cupboard. I've never used the store bought stuff.

 

[johnnymarrsbars]

Never use cornflour - makes it kinda gloopy I find. Proper flour all the way baby!

like i said, dissolve it in water and add a tiny bit to the gravy, then just add more if it needs it during reduction.

it'll only go gloopy if you add the powder first..


whateva...my gravy is lush, trust me folks

 

[lights.out.london]

Top thread.

 

[FiFi]

Good grief!

I'm glad I'm vegan after reading this lot!

 

[Guineveretoo]

My gravy is vegan!

 

[Orang Utan]

My gravy is vegan!

<throws up>

 

[Orang Utan]

You can't make vegan gravy! You can't even make veggie gravy! You need a roast!

 

[Guineveretoo]

You can't make vegan gravy! You can't even make veggie gravy! You need a roast!

I am aware of this viewpoint, but I have been making vegan gravy for the last 30 years with some success

 

[Orang Utan]

You can't call it gravy then - call it savoury sauce or something

 

[Guineveretoo]

You can't call it gravy then - call it savoury sauce or something

Why?

 

[Orang Utan]

Cos gravy is the fat and juices from a roast

 

[Xanadu]

I am aware of this viewpoint, but I have been making vegan gravy for the last 30 years with some success

By definition, gravy contains drippings from meat.

gra·vy (grā'vē)

n., pl. -vies.

1. 1. The juices that drip from cooking meat.
   2. A sauce made by thickening and seasoning these juices.

Whatever it is you are making, it's not gravy.

 

[Guineveretoo]

Traditionally, it is, but the word is often now used in a vegetarian/vegan context as well.

 

[Orang Utan]

Traditionally, it is, but the word is often now used in a vegetarian/vegan context as well.

well it shouldn't be

 

[johnnymarrsbars]

vegetarians are going to hell


sorry

 

[Guineveretoo]

By definition, gravy contains drippings from meat.

gra·vy (grā'vē)

n., pl. -vies.

1. 1. The juices that drip from cooking meat.
   2. A sauce made by thickening and seasoning these juices.

Whatever it is you are making, it's not gravy.

As I say, that is the traditional definition of gravy, but, these days, the word is commonly used to mean a vegan sauce accompanying, for example, veggie sausages and mash, or a vegetarian roast dinner. It's not my invention!

 

[Guineveretoo]

vegetarians are going to hell


sorry

I certainly feel like I am going to hell, but not because of my diet!

 

[Orang Utan]

I wish they'd get their own words for their bland mush and stop appropriating traditional words