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My Dad's Christmas Eve rant about gravy still echoes 5 years later
It was 3 years ago at my sister's place in Denver, and my dad lost it because my uncle used cornstarch instead of flour for the turkey gravy. He went on for a solid 10 minutes about how his mother would roll over in her grave, and then my mom shot back that his mother's gravy was always lumpy anyway. By the time the pie came out, my cousin was hiding in the bathroom on his phone because nobody could agree on whether dark meat is actually better. Has anyone else had a holiday meal fall apart over something as simple as a thickener?
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hart.cora1d ago
My cousin actually sent me a TikTok the other day about some chef who swears cornstarch makes gravy clearer. Guess that guy never met my grandma's flour roux either.
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xena3731d ago
My grandma always said cornstarch is for thickening Chinese food, not gravy. She used flour and a hot pan with drippings, and her gravy was never cloudy.
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