How to Master Gravy Making

[@jamesmurphy1480]

I love it when you show the basics because a lot of people don’t know the basics. You know how to open a package or open a can, but they don’t know how to make the basics like gravy.

[@dgoodman1484]

I know I didn’t. 👍🏼

[@jensandersen8270]

My Mom learned from her mom...and as the only child but being a boy I had to be the student! But after cooking the flour and butter, margarine fat from the meat you are cooking, I was taught to add the water that you cooked the potatoes in! No sense in wasting the vitamins and starch! Then add milk if making white gravy then the seasoning. By itself for breakfast... Try something new and put a lot of parsley pour over the potatoes and serve with ham, Spam etc.!

[@Valterius87]

Because making a roux, while not "advanced", isn't something that's taught outside of restaurants or culinary schools. A good roux is the base for most sauces which is simply a rendered protein fat and flour of equal parts.

[@jamesmurphy1480]

@ I learned how to make it from my grandma when I was seven

[@Vicki-v7e]

Detest canned biscuits? You?

[@billiep4338]

North Carolina here👋🏻 If you get the gravy too thick I add a little coffee. The acid from the coffee breaks down the thickness of the flour without overpowering the taste. You can’t taste the coffee. I always have coffee cooking.

[@zoltanurmosi1143]

Interesting 🤔

[@billiep4338]

@ I don’t know exactly how it works but my grandmother showed me.

[@purpleheart3000]

Learning to make gravy was a cooking game changer. It was the first thing I mastered making without a recipe and gave me so much confidence. And extra calories, but it's so worth it 🤤

[@joreighjewell9908]

The very first time I made gravy, it was so awful that I put it outside for the dog and he wouldn't eat it either. lol I'm proud to say that I can now make a mean gravy.

[@robertjackson5555]

That looks amazing, Yum I want gravy with dinner.😊😊

[@truepatriots3860]

And back straps 😊

[@karensweet6530]

I learned to make Gravy from my Momma about 55 yrs ago! She made hers with Cream and I still do that today! I use can Cream in my Mashed Taters, Gravies, Pot Pies, Dumplins, and anything that calls for milk! Love that good rich flavor! So good! Thank you Cowboy Kent! God Bless.... 🙏🙏❤❤🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@COMMANDER-ONE]

Evaporated milk?

[@marvinbone1379]

​@@COMMANDER-ONEI'm glad you asked that.

[@karensweet6530]

@@COMMANDER-ONE Yes, it's Evaporated Milk! Sorry, I'm from the south and that's what we always called it. I'm an elderly woman and we just always called it Cream or Canned Milk! God Bless. 🙏❤

[@COMMANDER-ONE]

@@karensweet6530 I’m from eastern Ky. But I couldn’t remember what my mom called it. I make some really good sausage gravy already, but I’m always hoping to try new things.

[@karensweet6530]

@COMMANDER-ONE Just mix same amount of Water as you do Cream to make the amount of Milk you need for Gravy! If used in Mashed Taters just use the Cream without Water! Just pour straight from the can the amount you need for your taters! It's so good! Good Luck and Enjoy! 🙏❤

[@bingus8864]

People would be surprised how easy it is to make gravy. And it tastes so damn good 🤤

[@StonewallJackson-n8w]

Better than the junk gravy mix with all the junk in it.

[@trishaporte]

Gravy on a piece of bread was supper more than once!!

[@RichardCranium321]

I've been cooking for 20+ years, worked as a cook on charter boats and in several restaurants as well as knowing how to bake. Gravy has always been my weakness. I absolutely cannot figure out my mother's milk based country sausage gravy and I've ruined more flour (and sausage grease) than I care to admit. Luckily, Libby's makes a really good canned gravy that comes in soup sized cans or the big 1 gallon cans for food service. I keep a can on hand at all times, it's the closest to what mom used to make. 😢 Mr. Rollins, if you happen to see this, you should try Libby's at least once. You won't be disappointed. It's not "good for a canned shelf-stable product" .... It's just good.

[@trishaporte]

@ I have tried many times to make the sausage gravy that I remember from being a youngster. I am throughly convinced that the sausage is just “different”. Yes I agree with you that Libby’s Sausage Gravy is pretty close to what I was raised on.

[@133rip]

​@@trishaporteAdd some bacon grease. Pork doesn't have the fat content that we enjoyed years ago.

[@leonardpaciora5039]

Thanks for sharing your secrets Kent!!!

[@scottshort3718]

Can’t get full on fancy! Everything you make looks delicious!!!

[@winstonbartlett8612]

Kent! You disappeared from my algorithm for some reason. Glad you popped back up. Subscribed so I never lose you again!

[@roz7575]

Love his cooking and showing what ingredients he uses

[@KandAadvenrurs2]

I learned how to make gravy with ken and it brings back so many memories of the way my late mamaw used to do it for my birthday. Thanks Mr. Rollins

[@JusBidniss]

My Maw-maw used to make this back in KY by toasting the flour in the grease to a dark, almost coffee color, really bringing out some flavor complexity in the flour, before adding the canned milk. This gave the gravy a tan color, and a rich taste not present in normal white or sawmill gravy. And over her buttermilk biscuits? Heavenly!

[@elijah4606]

Maw-maw was making a roux. Rest for some gumbo

[@grahamlindsay1263]

The dark roux

[@nuuuuuuuut]

That's a dark roux. It works but it's a different flavor profile than normal milk gravy. Dark rouxes are used in cajun a lot

[@forrestleach1934]

My parents always did the same called it burnt flour gravy

[@rizzgy7486]

Just the other day I was making a cheese sauce and had accidently darkened the roux a little. I used it anyways and it tasted great!

[@ninababy8]

Kent nothing like a crunchy steak or chicken with that saw mill gravy. The taste and the smooth gravy with the crunch. What dreams are made of!! Thank you!!!!

[@paulsmock7439]

Gravy is one thing that can be made to be great with enough seasoning, sage, garlic, fennel seeds, etc.. I find the most neglected is enough salt and pepper. A few drops of Tabasco sauce will balance it out the cream.

[@CowboyKentRollins]

All sounds good to me

[@milesbliss3256]

Thank you Kent and Sharon ❤

[@williebowser6641]

Homemade gravy is so much better than the package crap... but never used can milk was told a long time ago that can milk would give you the squirts ... now I got to try your way!

[@inmamata]

You Sir have ben my cooking teacher and I appreciate you! Keep up the good work and God bless you and your family!

[@MrTrool323]

It cannot get simpler than that Such gravy would even make a slice of bread or a bun taste like heaven on the road

[@mlindholm]

Or a biscuit, perhaps? 😉 Add a good amount of crumbled cooked sausage and it makes a delectable biscuit topper. But yes, over toast is a classic one, especially if you've mixed in chopped dried beef.

[@cynthiataylor3761]

I always make my gravy like you do!! Prayers for you and yours!!! Hopefully things are going well after the fire! Thank you for your videos!!!❤😊

[@mdube391]

Gravy needs to be its own food group is the best intro to this video ❤ much love and respect from Atlantic Canada 🇨🇦❤️🇨🇦

[@saburomontfort8566]

I’ve never used milk! I’ll try it. Thank you for your wonderful recipes and advice. Gravy has to be one of the things I make that is not consistent

[@logansomething]

If you're accustomed to making British style gravy, this will be quite different, and the consistency is meant to be thicker, like a bechamel.

[@CWSteam32]

Mr. Kent Rollins, As a serious devotee of Gravy, Yours would work on any entrée or side dish, Heck I could use it as a soup also!!

[@johnbroadwell2603]

I watched my grandparents make this and it was awesome. Using a well seasoned cast iron pan is best.

[@alfonsomontes8829]

Man that looks soo good. I'm ready for super right about now.❤

[@at0micwerew0lf]

Look at that finished gravy!! Perfect!!

[@thomespinos4148]

Thanks Kent!

[@bethfreeman9543]

Gravy is DEFINITELY it's own food group! In my family, I am known as the gravy queen, because I love to eat it and am a pro at making it ! Go Kent!

[@patdough7515]

I tried to reach thru my iPad screen … cracked it! 😱😱😱 Just kidding, but gravy looks amazing and I’m a subscriber!!! Best to you and Shannon, and the pups!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@xidkid]

Gravy is not only a food group, it’s an entire cuisine… There are so many variations!

[@MarcusAlvarez-t4s]

Wow, that looks good. Real good thank you for sharing, sir.

[@CowboyKentRollins]

You're so welcome

[@bpennreddogmom3355]

Made your steak fingers and gravy for supper tonight 😋 thank you for sharing your recipes

[@archieself4945]

WOW! Looks great. I'm sure it tastes better than it looks, AND IT LOOKS GREAT!

[@NicholasX.]

That looks delicious. I never used canned milk before, but I like to thin my gravy with chicken broth. The sodium from that is usually sufficient enough for taste.

[@pwilson6439]

GREAT to see you again, Cowboy Kent. That GRAVY looks SMOOTH AS SILK.

[@johnkenny2210]

Morning Mr Rollins thank you for sharing your gravy recipe 😀 Johno Australia 🇦🇺

[@perkins1439]

My mama makes pork backbone gravy best gravy I ever ate

[@RhondaKimzey]

Your CFS looks amazing! My gravy never looked like that, but it will now!

[@jamesmiddleton8128]

Best thong I ever learned was making gravy from scratch. So simple and will blow away any store bought out there😮

[@Crossrock7777]

Milk work as well, but is more watery and will take a bit longer for it to thicken.

[@iamsecond3625]

And more flour. I wished I had thought of canned milk before now.

[@msbigdog1460]

If it's sold in your area, try Half and Half. It's a mixture of whole milk and heavy cream. It is great for gravy. I get it at Walmart, Great Value brand. 👍

[@charlesmoore5840]

Thank sir you are doing a fine job and I’m 71 and still learning to make gravy my wife always cooked

[@sachem31]

Another great recipe to try in the future, from the ingredients alone I bet it almost taste like béchamel sauce

[@guitarplayer30001]

i would suppose it is essentially bechamel, interesting that he mentioned corn starch and water, i think i may have heard of that before, one could possibly add flour straight up, just have to make sure to keep it cooking

[@PatrickC63]

Can milk rules when it comes to the gravy 👍🏻

[@ronbloomberg]

Can Milk: do you mean Evaporated Milk when you say can milk?

[@wethreebees]

I am so glad ya picked ME, what an honor!❤🎉

[@I-C-Y-U-N-V]

I never buy gravy. My Southern Bell momma taught me this recipe and i make my own every time. Great video! 👍🏼

[@PeaceJourney...]

First thing I learned to cook, was about 3, my favorite elder put a wooden dining room chair up to the stove, right in front of a cast iron skillet with hot drippings from frying up venison, and taught me by dropping flour by the handful and having me stir it until it was the right color and consistency, then adding milk a splash at a time, all while I stirred, and learned how to season it. I made the gravy from that time on, would drag over the chair myself and learned how to cook everything the old time way long before I could look down at the stove top without a chair or stool. Been making gravy more than half a century now, and still would make a meal out of gravy on a pile of torn bread if biscuits aren't handy.

[@paintedwarrior516]

Texas toast does the trick

[@Dallas-Rife-UDX-347-Tennessee]

That finished product looks delicious 😋

[@mydobie130]

Gravy is an art form. I had fabulous teachers!!!

[@kenolsen208]

Makes me homesick!❤

[@cjcoleman7372]

I believe you and I are somehow related! That looked like some of the best country fried dinner I've seen in a long ass time!!

[@epimetheaus1214]

If you want to keep your flour from being all clumpy, you slowly add cold water to the flour as you stir it in to create a slurry.

[@phonix3017]

Looks delicious my friend

[@Jen-wo6on]

Crazy this video popped up ,just went to the store ,and bought my ingredients ,to make chipped beef gravy ,in the morning ,for my son lol

[@tadpetrie3464]

That gravy looks absolutely amazing Kent! Especially on that fried steak and mashed potatoes! I could live on that if I could make sure my doctor didn't find out! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@mathewepperson6687]

Good man! Same applies for sausage gravy! I don't ever measure anything. I just put in as much flour as it takes to soak up the fat. I do it slowly and a spoonful at a time. Same with the milk.

[@lucasblanchard47]

I hope I wasn’t the only one who actually helped you keep stirring haha! My mom taught me how to make gravy. I love cooking with her and learning all of her recipes!

[@stacymorris8693]

Gravy is something I learned to make a long time ago. I guess I do alright at it. When the kids come home to visit they demand I make biscuits and gravy.

[@societydweller9485]

Great clip for his video on chicken fried chicken....don't forget the baking powder, corn starch, and canned milk as always.

[@lestrada1351]

My grandmother always made sawmill gravy. The meat grease (maybe a little butter added in) and flour and brown it real good. Then use water instead of milk

[@swissarmyknight4306]

Gotta send this to all the Brits who are suddenly trying biscuits and gravy and chicken fried steak, so they have a good time instead of a bad time.

[@noahb2393]

That looks divine ❤️

[@astarcalledsun]

This is great

[@WiltonakaBearJeter111]

That looks delicious,a meal fit for a king.

[@thomasmalone6654]

Love the gravy Kent!

[@ArtsyJustin]

Aunt Meg's gravy is famous. It's practically a food group.

[@LelandTheBarbarian]

A little bullion powder and wosteshire are nice additions too

[@KIMWOOD-uv9oo]

Looks fantastic!

[@mariahm.7199]

I love your videos ❤️

[@joechilson5790]

Man love ya Kent. Keep it up👍

[@RicksOutdoors29127]

Always use milk. I will try can milk. Love your videos

[@jamesbrownjr.5074]

I agree with having gravy being its own food group. ❤

[@southron1861]

My favorite is some brown onion gravy, especially when we're fixing it with some deer tenderloin or backstrap. We fry up the deer meat then use the leftover cooking oil, mixed with some flour and water, and cook it till it gets a nice brownness to it 😋

[@ditackett]

I make mine just like this. When I first started making mommas recipes, SOTS AKA chopped dried beef and gravy over toast or biscuits, I would make the gravy either equal parts butter or oil or fat to equal pets flour and milk. But what I don’t know was that this was the actual way to start and make any kind of gravy like from a roe or beef juice left over from a roast or baked chicken. But I’ve never tried it with canned milk. I’m gonna have to try it.

[@MissLotti007]

I was sooo excited when my kiddo was old enough to stir the gravy!!! 😆

[@DonnieSmithj-m2v]

And old family tradition my grandparents always use bacon grease

[@scottbatson8721]

Oh my, my mouth is watering!

[@davidanglin5495]

Made this for breakfast and poured it over my Momma Salmon patties and biscuits. YUMMY

[@CHADnFREUD]

Looks devine Kent. I never would've thought about using condensed milk, that's genius!

[@SeanNewhouse-mv9ez]

Canned milk is so very good and for its texture too but I only use so much also a portion of whole milk and just some cream all together I also like to make it custard style! Add some sliced mushrooms Also, a little curry powder, a tad white pepper, coarse ground pepper, some garlic parsley salt Military cooks say the flour breaks down when simmered on its own long enough, mainly not sure how that'd work Also, love on mashed! I love that restaurant grade dried mashed!

[@grahamlindsay1263]

When you wrote mushrooms, boom there, I go roasting shiitakes, slicing, adding them into my spiced up tallow gravy.

[@DonnaLane-pw4rg]

No truer words spoken here ❤❤❤ My good friend Vince is always hollering at me " My gravy meter is busted and it's pinned past Empty!"😂😂😂😂 Whenever he visits us he's always hollering" I want you to make me your pork chops and mashed potatoes and gravy ❤❤❤😂😂😂

[@sheilaminer609]

He’s right about the canned milk. Makes gravy go much better.

[@unknowndrummer3229]

If you’re using milk, don’t use it straight from the refrigerator. Let it warm up a little bit and you will avoid lumps. Your gravy looks just like my grandfather gravy. He put sugar in everything and never left anything on his plate. Died of a stroke at 72. He did love his gravy.😊

[@stevearchuleta3640]

My friend… that looks so good…. Thanks….

[@CowboyKentRollins]

Thanks so much for watching

[@stevearchuleta3640]

@ Mr. Rollins.. thank you for answering me…. I love your video with the chicken fried steak…. Now that video made me so hungry…. 😂🤣😅 Thank you sir for taking the time to respond… much love and respect

[@ursaltydog]

When it wrinkles on the top, you know it's perfect!

[@msbigdog1460]

You can also use Half and half, it's a mixture of whole milk and heavy cream. Makes a delicious gravy. 😋

[@LoisChisholm]

"Gravy needs to be its own food group." Can I hear an Amen? I may not be a great cook, but I have been the Family Gravy Maker for generations, with no complaints from anyone. 😂

[@tonythedonluciano]

Cowboy Kent is always whipping up something good to eat. 😊

[@renaissancepoet]

You say my gravy is lumpy, I say my gravy has dumplings.

[@Turtletails90]

Gravy is the best. Thanks Cowboy Chef 🔥

[@robertaustin7757]

Thats how my mom made it ! Delicious.

[@Scoobers-fj6jk]

I like using the can milk too 😋

[@joshs8344]

Glad to help you with those spices... I love holding the ladder

[@EdRoberts-rz1kk]

I make sausage gravy and sourdough biscuits every 2 weeks. That's my newyear resolution since I used to do it every week and it last me 5 days.

[@codexmagic]

Is the canned milk the evaporated milk? Just making sure.

[@CowboyKentRollins]

Yep

[@johnhicks692]

It took me awhile to finally get the knack of making gravy. One rule though, DO NOT walk away for a second. That's when it gets burnt.

[@wheeler71]

Looks so good🫙🍴👍🤠🙏🗽🇺🇸

[@AxcelGamer97]

I dropped the spatula on the ground. Sorry, Kent!

[@scottdaughtry6740]

This man is a national treasure

[@martykitson3442]

Can also take flour and butter or bacon grease cook til the flour browns a little then save it in the fridge to thicken thin gravy or soup or anything needing thickened really but Kent knows that

[@laurastarbrook1308]

I do love some biscuits and gravy

[@steverundus2878]

Please clarify what canned milk is. Evaporated milk?

[@CowboyKentRollins]

Yep

[@rosalindalay4499]

Delicious 😊