Appreciation post: My creamy sauce broke during service.

I was rushing and the sauce separated. An old trick with a cold spoon helped blend it again. How do you handle broken sauces?

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3 Comments

oliver_reed2mo ago

What’s the most panicked you’ve ever seen someone over a sauce? My buddy was doing brunch service once and his hollandaise just gave up... he was sweating bullets. He grabbed a cold metal bowl, whisked like a madman with a single new yolk, and slowly drizzled the broken mess back in. It actually worked, but he looked like he’d run a marathon after.

rubywalker2mo ago

Does accidentally making gravy with the texture of wet sand count? I once spent 20 minutes just trying to whisk out the lumps while my potatoes got cold.

fox.casey1mo ago

Broken hollandaise is a full-on kitchen nightmare, that fix sounds like a magic trick. Rubywalker's lumpy gravy story has nothing on that kind of pressure, lmao. Your buddy must have aged five years in five minutes.