Sauces troubleshooting

Cheese Sauce problems, diagnosed

Grainy, oily, split and lumpy cheese-sauce troubleshooting.

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A grainy cheese sauce can be an overheated protein problem, a broken emulsion, a roux problem, or a reheating problem. First check whether the sauce is also oily and when the graininess appeared.