Thread 21525132

Is roux a meme?

>>21525132 (OP)
No it's not a meme, it's a required step to make many recipes, are you 12?

>>21525132 (OP)
no, stop being retarded

>>21525136
>>21525137
It literally adds nothing to the flavour of the food

>>21525144
You don't do the Roux for flavor, it's to prevent lumps from forming.
Make a bechamel sauce with roux and without it and report back.

>>21525148
so it is a meme then

try making gumbo without a roux. kek. lmaoing at your life rn btw. get real

>>21525149
You are the meme cooklet for making this thread.

>>21525144
a light roux won't add much flavor, that's kind of the point. a dark roux will definitely add flavor.

>>21525132 (OP)
Totally. People who are into roux voodoo can't cook.

>roux
Does nothing.

>>21525132 (OP)
yes honhonhonhon!

>>21525150
There is a variety of gumbo thickened with okra snot and no roux. I forget what it's called but I made it a couple times and posted pics of it here the first time I made it. It was practice for cooking it for a gluten free ho I was seeing at the time. It still has the filé and everything, it just ups the amount of okra and the okra is soaked in water to make the water snotty. The snotwater is strained, the okra cooked in the gumbo and the snotwater added at the very end of cooking since it will lose its thickening ability upon cooking.
Lemme see if I can find the old post on warosu

>>21525204
Has warosu purged some older posts? I posted https://warosu.org/ck/thread/21009561#p21028819, which was a repost of the pic I used when making the OG GF gumbo but when I clicked «view same» to find the original post, there's was nothing.

food is a meme. just inject nutrients straight into your blood. fuckin faggot.

>>21525132 (OP)
>Is roux a meme?
In the literal sense of the word? Yes.
A meme is to culture what a gene is to biology. It is a unit of information or a step in a process that is passed on to future generations and outlives whoever first thought of it.

Kinda. Powdered starch or xanthan gum wasn't really available before industrial food production so a roux was just the easiest and cheapest way

>>21525204
the flavor of gumbo comes from roux you fucking dipshit. okra is a thickening agent. you made dogshit.

>>21525295
It seems that this anon disappeared up xer own smarmy shitbox

>>21525331
You are not very smart.

>>21525154
Dont respond to the 12 year old.

>>21525512
You are not very smart.

it is annoying having to cook it at the start, when you don't know how thick it will be in the end
you can precook it and save it for later but I haven't tried that way

Only a white roux is a meme when beurre manier exists
Objectively no point in starting something with one compared to finishing it with frozen grated beurre manier

>>21525585
125-150 g roux per liter of sauce.
>>21525590
Roux is always superior as it has no dull flour flavour. At least use arrowroot if you want to thicken the sauce in the end.

>>21525620
i still cook out the flour at the end plus its superior because i can walk away from the pot without it potentially scorching to the bottom depending on what im making