Reheating Cream Sauces

[AznAnarchy99]

I can make some awesome pesto cream and Gorgonzola cream sauces but when I microwave them they get all nasty and oily. Is there any good method besides a pot?

 

[Nashemon]

Put in it a bag and dip it into hot water. I've done this with a few things. YMMV.

 

[Berliner]

Stirring.

Preferably in a pot.

 

[smackababy]

You just have to stir it. Most cream sauces just cream and some kind of fat. Just heat and whisk it into the proper emulsion every minute or so in the microwave.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Pretty much any cream sauce will break if heated in a microwave. They're not meant to be reheated at all, but if you have to do it the best way is in a double boiler, slowly and with constant whisking.

 

[davmat787]

Wouldn't a double boiler pan be preferable? Those are the pot within a pot things that uses the water and steam in the larger first pot to heat the second pot that sits within it.

The suggestion of using a ziploc and dipping into water is basically the same thing I would imagine, and you could fill and freeze bags ahead of time.

 

[Mixolydian]

You don't reheat food, you throw it away.

 

[UglyCasanova]

Try it on a lower power setting or low on the stovetop. Not sure why you would need to use a double boiler.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Try it on a lower power setting or low on the stovetop. Not sure why you would need to use a double boiler.

Cream sauces will easily break when reheated. By using a double boiler it's impossible to expose a sauce to temps above boiling and gives time to stir without destroying them. Warming with gentle heat is far safer.

 

[MongGrel]

I've used sensor reheat on mine and stirred in a microwave before and kinda gotten away with it almost, but low heat and just stirring in a regular pan probably the best.

Trying to do it in a microwave slowly more a PITA than just doing it low on a stove really.

 

[Rakehellion]

Heat it in the microwave, but way less than you did before and stir it.

 

[phucheneh]

Pot seems like a good solution. The sauce could be made of American cheese and mashed-up Fruit Loops and it would still be goddamn delicious.

 

[UglyCasanova]

Cream sauces will easily break when reheated. By using a double boiler it's impossible to expose a sauce to temps above boiling and gives time to stir without destroying them. Warming with gentle heat is far safer.

Gotcha. Just putting the stove on low I would think would work though.