Mexican crema yum!
I’m making fish tacos tonight. Must have my homemade crema!
Do people consider sour cream a sauce?
I have one of those meal delivery kit subscriptions where they send you ingredients and recipes each week for you to make their meals. I am surprised at how many different sauces can be made with sour cream. Add a little bit of water, garlic, salt and pepper, - and you’ve got a delicious white sauce that goes on almost anything.
Well yeah, no question there, but by itself it kind of doesn’t count?
Yeah, some people even consider ketchup, mayonnaise, and mustard sauces.
Language when wielded irresponsibly can be a mysterious and terrible thing.
My son uses ketchup as if it were a sauce …
Ketchup is a sauce.
What else would it be?
A food wig?
Love different coloured food wigs with my chips
Ketchup is called Tomato Sauce in Australia.
It’s a condiment, which is not a sauce.
Its a subsection of sauces. A type of sauce fulfilling a more specific purpose than other sauces.
Careful! You’re heading down a dangerous path!
Good god.
According to my extensive 30 seconds of research, the difference is that a sauce is an integral ingredient, but a condiment is added after the dish is served. In which case, ketchup can be either or both, even in the same dish.
Obviously it’s a sauce. I looked up the definition to try and figure out why they would say it isn’t, and I still don’t see it.
“a liquid or semisolid food mixture used especially as a topping or ingredient for adding to or enhancing the flavor of a dish”
There’s a lot more nuance in the definition in a culinary context: https://www.mashed.com/1338901/difference-between-sauce-condiment-dip/
But ignoring that context, yes, ketchup meets the literal definition of a sauce.
What context needs to be ignored? Ketchup is a sauce, which when added to completed food becomes a condiment, just like all sauces. Plenty of dishes are cooked with ketchup in the cooking process. The conclusion from the article you posted:
when it comes to the question of condiment or sauce, the answer is “both”.
condiment to sauce is a spectrum :)
Anything’s a sauce if you’re brave enough 🎶
Tzatziki!
They already listed cucumber sauce
Yes, please! 🤤
Alfredo’s nut sauce.
Bechamel is kinda mid without something else going on
Pretty banger IMO. Do you include salt, pepper and nutmeg when you make it ?
Salt and pepper usually, the nutmeg not so much actually, but I pretty much only make it when I’m making a lasagne or as a step on the way to cheese sauce.
What’s your best dish where it’s the star?
Béchamel is a mother sauce. It doesn’t star by itself usually. You can take it any direction from the base and make it a star, or use it as a great supporting actor that helps the main dish shine
I’d say some gratins (cauliflower, broccoli, etc) or croque-monsieur would be good candidates for that sauce and the nutmeg really makes the sauce pop (taste it for spiciness btw and adjust).
Regardless though, it is indeed a mother sauce as others have said
Béchamel is one of the mother sauces. It’s meant to be used as a base or carrier sauce, never on its own. You can make an absolutely fire mac and cheese sauce by starting with a béchamel btw. Just don’t skip the flour sifter, that shit’s vital.
Every single white sauce is inferior to its counterparts except country gravy.
Mayo garbage without becoming spicy aioli
Ranch no use something mustard based
Sour cream, go back to Iowa or use habanero crema
Alfredo never beats marinara
Tzatki will never be better than the red sauce
Pussy grool over nut all day every day
Under-represented but absolutely fire is Toum.
Toum is so good. It forever ruined garlic mayo for me.
For anyone who doesn’t know toum is a Lebanese sauce that uses garlic as the emulsifier, rather than eggs. This means that it’s also vegan. Garlic is also a weaker emulsifier than eggs, so it’s insanely garlicky. Any vampire hunters should consider getting Lebanese food before their next hunting trip for this reason
Also the milk sauce for your cereal.
I bought a garlic sauce that is kinda mid
Skill issue.
Toum is the only acceptable garlic sauce
One of these things are not like the others.
Yeah, most wouldn’t consider sour cream a sauce 😉
And looking closer ranch is actually a dressing, not a sauce.
I dunno. I find sourcream and ranch overrated.
I’m more partial to eastern sauces.
I find sourcream and ranch overrated
This can’t be a coincidence
Carbonara.
Is not a sauce. It’s just egg yoke and cheese
Sauce is a sauce is a sauce.
AND CARBONARA IS DELICIOUS
What nut gives white sauce? Can’t imagine.
The kind that comes from a cylinder that must remain unharmed
