to have just shouted "BISTO IS NOT PROPER GRAVY!" at the TV?

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I may be a little on edge as I am watching last night's One Born Every Minute, and a touch emotional, but an advert just came on that made me shout.....

The new Bisto one, kids promising to behave in return for "one night a week to have a proper dinner with the family, with proper gravy".

It grates on me because once a week seems painfully few meals with the family (even if I'm not eating at the same time as my DD for some reason, I sit with her at the table for company). Also Bisto is not 'proper gravy' - call me a food snob but its granules, and (disclaimer - last time I checked) full of weird stuff. Its easier just to chuck the roasting juices in a pan with a little flour and some potato water/wine etc and simmer for a few mins.

I know some people don't enjoy cooking and I'm lucky that I do, and there is nothing wrong with using Bisto BUT its not 'proper' gravy., is it?

I may be a little irrational, I apologise in advance!

ad makes me laugh - cause BISTO is pretend gravy NOT proper gravy. Proper gravy is made with the juices etc, built by hand.

BISTO has it's place - DH loves it & I don't mind it occasionally, but it would never come near a roast dinner in my house and IT'S NOT PROPER GRAVY!!!

I'm an OXO mum. My gravy is a stock cube or 3, mixed with meat juices & flour.

If I don't have meat juices, I don't have gravy. Unless I'm making onion gravy for my sausages

It is like bumwee.

Trillian - you use leftover gravy from Sunday's roast or you make onion gravy (Nigella's red wine and cumin one is lovely - plus of course you get to finish the bottle)

Mind, I do use stock cubes.

YADNBU.

Bisto instant granules tast far better than the powdered shite.

Agreed. 'tis not 'proper' gravy.

...but loads of it all over a huuuuge pile of mashed potato yum!

I love cooking would never save meat juices,but always use bisto its just the thought of what it is puts me off

YANBU.

But the old-fashioned Bisto powder isn't bad at all. It's just onion powder, salt, caramel, yeast, potato starch and cornflour, none of which is weird as a gravy ingredient. And it does improve the flavour if you don't have nice stock or much meat juice.

To me Bisto is the onion gravy powder as that is always what we had growing up and as such is proper gravy as it's still made with the meat juices, just uses powder that is cornflour plus extras instead of flour on it's own.

Granules of any brand are not proper gravy

It does the job, and aslong as it tastes ok who cares whether it is "proper" or not?!

Oh you can't beat a Fray Bentos pie, tinned tat ties, peas and thick Bisto.

How can they say it's proper gravy? It's foul and vile.

i may sound thick but how do you make 'proper' gravy? i use potato/veg water and meat juices if have any and add oxo and flour to thicken is this right

I love bisto gravy granules ...makes my life easier

I think I just saw the same ad, but I was too busy thinking 'oooh, that child just ordered pizza... pizza sounds good' to even notice the bisto reference!

I would not know.

I have Jus