Keep Gravy Warm and Smooth for Hours in a Thermos

Whether you're traveling and bringing the gravy with you, or you want to keep it fresh for your Thanksgiving leftovers, your secret weapon is a simple thermos of coffee carafe. It'll keep the gravy warm and keep it from thickening for hours, until it's ready to serve.

Pre-warm the carafe or thermos with some hot water, then ladle your gravy, once it's hot and smooth, into a thermos or an insulated coffee carafe. If it works for your coffee, it'll work for the gravy—let it do its job, and when you get back to it, the gravy will still be warm and smooth, even if that's hours later. After all, any sauce or dish that's more liquid than not and is thickened with starch like flour or corn starch will tighten up over time, especially as the temperature drops. With gravy, this leads inevitably to a gelatinous gross consistency that you can try to sort out by putting it back on the heat, but nobody's got time for that when you're trying to finish everything else for the big meal.

The video above from America's Test Kitchen explains why this works, but I have to give credit to Alton Brown, whom I learned the tip from (he also mentions it—along with his gravy recipe—here.)

What Smart Cooks Do on Thanksgiving: How to Keep Gravy Warm for Hours (Without a Gravy Warmer) | America's Test Kitchen (YouTube)

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