I've never seen nor used a powdered roux from a jar. The ones I buy are made, no adding water, it's an oily dark mess. Suckas
I've never burnt one so I wouldn't know. I do know that you cant make one any better than the ones I buy already made. You cant. You can talk about bacon grease and if you cook the onions with the roux and all that but end of the day I am right.
I weep for the people who will never know the taste of real roux. It's the same as the difference between a homemade hamburger and a Big Mac.
Oh good grief stop. We aren't talking about an etoufee we are talking about a freaking roux. It has 2 ingredients 2. Flour and oil or if you are some sort of new preppie Cajun you use bacon grease or gluten free almond flour or some other gay shit. Flour and oil. You aren't going to get a lot of variations on taste.
I've used both and I can't tell the difference. When I make a gumbo I use the jar roux. All of the bowls are returned empty.
I agree with you, but I have heard stories about people discovering after they cooked their vegetables that the purchased roux had a burnt taste and were not eatable. I give the purchased roux the "smell taste" and have yet to discover a bad batch.
You are right, absolutely correct in that you prefer the lowest acceptable standard. You can make a hot dog at home and say “damn, some fine dog right there” or you can get one at the park and say nothing. When you set the bar at nothing, pretty easy to conclude that you are right. You go ahead and enjoy your big bowl of nothing if that is what suits you. I won’t say you are wrong, just that you prefer swill over what one who is passionate about their gumbo might insist upon. Bet you Fournette prefers it from his mamma’s pot rather than some GD jar. Might be why his bar is set at infinity…
blah blah blah you sound like Red Look, I don't know what this powdered stuff you keep blabbing about is. The roux in the jar that I am talking about is not a powder. It looks just like roux, it smells just like roux and more importantly it taste just like roux. That is because roux only has TWO ingredients so its pretty much going to taste the same. I agree that I wouldn't use a "powdered" roux, not sure what that is. I'd be glad to have cookoff any day.
Never said the powder shit was in a jar. You are so caught up in your laziness you have the two working together. Pepsi challenge? Game on fugger. To find an impartial judge in this crowd might be impossible. Regardless, prepare for the mop, chump.
