What's the difference between spaghetti gravy and spaghetti sauce?
NY Times food editor Craig Claiborne wrote in 1979 that there was no difference, but the word sauce had a “more sophisticated ring to it.” Some people think only New Yorkers or pre-WWII immigrants say gravy and that more recent immigrants say sauce. Both camps insist only “real” Italians say the word they use.May 17, 2020
My personal categorization between sauce and gravy is If it has a thickening agent added - corn starch, roux , etc. it is a gravy, if it is simply reduced by heat it is a sauce.
In my family it's gravy or "red sauce". It's gravy if it's slow cooked with various meats in it. Can be meatballs, sausage links, pork chops, chicken or whatever combination. Generally whatever is leftover or needs to be cooked. That'll simmer in a pot all day and you can just pick something out whenever you walk by and the rest is for dinner. Just watch out for the bones. Red sauce can be cooked fast or slow or incorporate bones but doesn't have the big chunks of meat in it. I've got no problem with sugar in my sauce, it depends on how acidic the tomatoes are
Ding ding ding winner winner chicken dinner lol.
That's usually the big argument around here.
It's a riot just bring it up in a bar/pub step back.and watch the fireworks it's too funny