Originally Posted By: zmjezhd
I'd've thought that fresh au jus could distinguished from frozen, powdered, or canned.

That's freshly-prepared au jus which I specifically mentioned was not what I was talking about. I was being playful with the sense of fresh as in (to make up an example) almondine of fresh green beans where fresh doesn't refer to a quality of the finished dish but the state of the ingredient(s) prior to cooking. Arguably, the juice doesn't even exist before the meat is cooked so you could claim au jus is fresh even if the meat was rancid. Roasted mammoth with fresh au jus - the mammoth has been dead for 10,000 years, but I just made the jus. ^^