Make your own mayonnaise it’s super easy.
The input from last week was that tips about art, food, and travel were all of interest, so this week’s is about cooking.
We have not bought any mayonnaise for many years, making your own is so quick and easy, no whisking or drizzling of oil required. All it takes is a good hand blender. I made this video for Alexis, our daughter, while we were living in France. Tricia took the video, thanks so much. BTW this is unedited and in real time, this is a quick process.
We prefer canola oil over olive oil, but both work equally well, it is simply a taste preference. In the video I stress that the order you add the ingredients makes a difference. The egg goes in first, the whole egg works fine, though I know traditionally they say just use the yolk. Then you fill the container up to the 200cl mark. That is not the same as adding 200ml of oil. I have made this in other shapes of containers, but the tall container that comes with the blender works the best.
We find the mayo keeps just fine refrigerated for up to a week. I have added some chopped garlic to make aioli, or you could add truffle powder, etc.
Let me know how it works, I hope you find you never have to buy jarred mayo again, we like that we know just what goes into our mayo, none of those big words on the ingredient list – and a lot less money.
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I had no idea there were so few ingredients in mayo! I’ll try this, thanks for the recipe. Maggie
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I fear the store bought do have a few unwanted extra ingredients. Let me know how it goes, and if I can help should it not go well.
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I had always been put off making mayonnaise at home thinking you had to drip things in slowly and it being such a complicated process but this is doable and definitely something I am going to try. Thanks for showing us this very useful tip!
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Yeah! I always thought the same thing until I learned this a few years ago. Let me know how it goes, and if you have any problems.
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I’m definitely going to give it a go and will let you know how it goes.
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I love the divergence to tackle home made mayo. It is interesting that, in popular culture, mayo is a white person condiment. Naturally, like all stereotypes, that one breaks down rather quickly but it does make for some great humor in movies.
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No “tackling “ at all, this is the easiest thing I do, I never thought about it being a white person thing; Mayo is used in aioli, remoulade in France, Japan, and is big in Southern cooking. And other than the movie about the drill Sargent using it as a nickname I don’t remember it in movies, and I think that was more a play on the cadets name. Hmm, you make me ponder…
Looking into it more, thanks for stimulating my research as you do, I find that emulsion type of sauces are used a lot. Interesting.
What I do know is that making it yourself is so easy, cheap, and so much better than anything I have ever bought, so glad I discovered the blender technique.
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I have just tried it and it worked perfectly! I need to put a picture on my next blog post.
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Great, I can’t wait to see the photo.
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I honestly had no idea how easy it is to make your own mayonnaise. The ingredients are so simple and all things we already have at home. I’m sure it’s much healthier than the stuff you buy in a grocery store. And it looks delicious.
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You are so right. We have not bought May for many years, hope it works for you as well.
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Wow, thank you so much, so glad it worked.
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