Demi-glace does not taste exactly like gravy, although both gravy and demi-glace are rich and savory brown sauces that have similar meaty flavors and can also have similar textures.
Gravy is often a thinner sauce made with meat drippings and often thickened with flour and demi-glace is a concentrated, intensely flavorful and syrupy base that is made from espagnole sauce and stock.
Demi-glace sauce is good and has an exceptional taste as a result of it's rich, deep umami packed flavor and also luxurious texture, elevating dishes from simple to gourmet.
Demi-glace sauce also acts as a versatile flavor enhancer and a foundational ingredient for other classic sauces, such as Bordelaise sauce and Mushroom sauce, which makes Demi-glace sauce a valuable staple in both professional and home kitchens.
Demi-glace is time consuming to make from scratch although the effort to make demi-glace is worth it for the intense flavor it provides and you can also buy demi-glace sauce in many stores.
Demi-glace is a complex French sauce that is made by combing Espagnole sauce, "a roux thickened brown sauce", with brown stock, then reducing the mixture by half, which creates a concentrated, gelatinous and flavorful sauce.
A very reduced stock can be called a "glace", but a demi-glace specifically incorporates Espagnole for a richer and more nuanced flavor.
The mother sauce that is typically used as a base for making a demi-glace is Espagnole sauce or brown sauce.
Demi-glace is a reduce of equal parts of Espagnole sauce and brown stock, that is simmered until it becomes a thick and intensely flavorful sauce,
Demi glace is often served with meats like duck meat, lamb meat or steak.
Espagnole sauce is a rich and dark brown sauce that is made from veal stock or brown beef, a dark brown roux of butter and flour cooked until very dark and mirepoix, "diced carrots, celery and onions", and tomato puree.
Espagnole sauce provides a deep and rich flavor base for other sauces.
And it's a foundation for demi-glace and several other classic French sauces, like Chasseur and Bordelaise.
To make Demi-Glace you mix Espagnole sauce with equal parts of brown beef or veal stock.
Then simmer the mixture uncovered, allowing it to reduce and also intensify in flavor until it is a thick and velvety consistency.
Once done the final product of demi-glace is a highly concentrated and flavorful sauce.
Demi-glace sauce is a basically a highly reduced brown stock, that is traditionally made from roasted beef or veal bones, mirepoix (onions, carrots, and celery), tomato paste, flour for the roux, and aromatics like garlic, bay leaves, thyme, and peppercorns.
Demi-glace sauce can also be made by combining a premade brown stock (like Espagnole sauce), which contains mirepoix, tomato, and roux, with more beef or veal stock and wine.