AIBU?
to stop making gravy?
TwoFourSixOhOne · 19/05/2013 18:56
I've always prided myself on making delicious homemade gravy with a roast dinner. Not an oxo cube or bisto granule in sight. Smuggy smug sug.
I love it, DH loves it, I knew the DC thought Grandma's chicken Bisto was nicer but they are hideous bratty fusspots about food so I largely ignore them about it.
I've had a real CBA day today and it was hot and I was tired so I did a one pot roast which meant no room for veg to make gravy. So I bought chicken Bisto.
Well.
Fuck me, you'd have thought it was manna from the heavens. My lot all wolfed it down, proclaimed it glorious and asked for thirds.
That's it. I'm converted. If they all prefer the salty chemical tang of (frankly delicious) shop bought, who am I to stand in their way?
AIBU?
KansasCityOctopus · 19/05/2013 18:59
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TwoFourSixOhOne · 19/05/2013 19:04
My favourite shit meal is oven chips with the red Bisto, so I'm not averse to it on principle.
It's just I was all PROUD of being the sort of mother who makes her own gravy. And they've thrown it back in my face, the ungrateful rotters.
Tchuh.
parakeet · 19/05/2013 21:55
Ah yes... authentic home-made gravy, made from the juices of the meat, onions, garlic, wine, thickened with corn flour, etc....in my experience results in about an egg-cupful of liquid, with the appearance of old dishwater and half as flavoursome.
Do yourself a favour: use all of the above AND help it out with several teaspoons of chicken Bisto.
Hassled · 19/05/2013 22:58
Actually I do have a Worthy Homemade Gravy standby - it's the Jamie Get Ahead Gravy. It is really really nice - and you can make then freeze for Gravy Emergencies. Bit of a faff to make, though.
Toadinthehole · 20/05/2013 06:48
There is no gravy granule to be found in Toad's kitchen - and never will be either - except perhaps for encrustations of home-made gravy down the side of the stove.
I don't care of the children would prefer Bisto. They ain't getting it because it's bad worse for them.
GinOnTwoWheels · 20/05/2013 07:00
OP YANBU
I cook mostly from scratch and am a self confessed snobby food snob about processed food, but proper gravy is just something that I cannot make that is 'nicer' than instant gravy - In the couple of times that I have tried I ended up making a horrendous mess as well with fat everywhere, and it just wasn't nice.
I only buy Bisto Best and always have the chicken and beef flavours in the cupboard (if we're having pork or lamb, I mix half and half of the flavours we have in 
).
But because I can't stand waste I do have about 5 pots of lovingly saved but sadly unidentified 'meat juices' in the freezer, that I keep meaning to try to make into proper gravy but in reality will probably throw away next time I clear out the freezer.
EllaFitzgerald · 20/05/2013 10:05
My MIL is horrified that I can't make 'proper' gravy, so I think if I told her I prefer Bisto, she might actually explode.
I comfort myself with the knowledge that DH prefers my roast dinners to hers and there are no Aunt Bessie's yorkshires in our house
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