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How to Make Store-Bought Mayonnaise Taste Homemade. Mayo is an almost perfect blank slate for experimentation.
lifehacker ^ | claire lower

Posted on 01/24/2022 8:50:19 AM PST by mylife

If you make your own mayo, you know you can go all out by playing around with vinegars and various fats. Duck fat mayo, for instance, will change your sandwich game. Even something as simple as swapping egg yolks for whole eggs can change the flavor and texture of your spread. But while I love tweaking and tinkering with homemade recipes, I always have a jar of store-bought mayo in the fridge.

While it doesn’t have quite the same kick out of the jar, mass-produced mayo has a much longer shelf life than the homemade stuff, and it’s just so convenient. I don’t just smear it on my sandwiches, I cook with it. Last Thursday evening, I was using it as the base for a chicken thigh marinade.

I started by squeezing half a lemon into approximately 3/4 cup of mayo. I whisked it until smooth, gave it a little taste, and thought “Damn. That tastes good. Perhaps I should make a sandwich instead.” But I continued with my original plan, doctoring the marinade to taste with garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, salt, and sugar. The result was a very flavorful, fancy tasting mayonnaise that worked incredibly well as a marinade, but would have made an equally impressive tuna salad. “Why don’t I tweak all my store-bought mayo like this?” I asked myself. Why not indeed.

Mayo is an almost perfect blank slate for experimentation. Here are some ways to add nuance and class to boring, store-bought jars of my favorite sandwich spread.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: mayo; mayonnaise
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To: perfect_rovian_storm

Thanks!


21 posted on 01/24/2022 9:20:27 AM PST by avenir
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To: mylife

I like Miracle Whip too. Or I’ll take store bought mayo, add some vinegar and sugar, celery seed, pepper, a dab of sour cream. Whip it up until silky smooth, and it makes a great Cole slaw dressing. I wonder what bacon fat would be like in a mayo. Baconnaise?


22 posted on 01/24/2022 9:20:59 AM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: mylife

I’ve never tried Japanese Kewpie Mayonnaise, btw.
So what is Japanese mayo all about? What differentiates it?

... Japanese mayonnaise has a rich egg flavor because only egg yolks are used compared to the American mayo that contains the entire egg. Also, Japanese mayo is typically made with rice vinegar or apple cider vinegar, instead of distilled vinegar.


23 posted on 01/24/2022 9:24:51 AM PST by sockmonkey (Conservative. Not a Neocon.)
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To: virgil

you think like me :)


24 posted on 01/24/2022 9:29:46 AM PST by mylife (France? what can you say? How do you rule a land with 246 kinds of cheese?)
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To: Red Badger

Same here. Nothing wrong with Hellmans. Just finished my tuna salad sandwich made with Hellmans. Yum. Get it in costco in the BIG jars.


25 posted on 01/24/2022 9:31:04 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: sockmonkey
Japanese mayo is typically made with rice vinegar or apple cider vinegar, instead of distilled vinegar.
26 posted on 01/24/2022 9:31:21 AM PST by mylife (France? what can you say? How do you rule a land with 246 kinds of cheese?)
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To: Vaquero

I dropped and busted one of those BIG JARS in the store one time...............


27 posted on 01/24/2022 9:34:17 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Vaquero

Southerners know that Duke’s and Blue Plate are the Dom Perignon of mayo.


28 posted on 01/24/2022 9:36:46 AM PST by NautiNurse (Who will portray Alec Baldwin in the SNL skit? )
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To: mylife

I’m a Miracle Whip guy myself (I grew up on it), but my wife is an Alabama gal and won’t eat anything unless it’s got Duke’s mayo on it. And I admit, Duke’s has a tanginess that is pretty good, so we keep a jar of it handy.


29 posted on 01/24/2022 9:42:09 AM PST by Viking2002 (Whatever.)
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To: mylife

Claire could save time by beginning with homemade instead of jumping through all those hoops.


30 posted on 01/24/2022 9:42:35 AM PST by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: NautiNurse

My immediate reaction to the headline was “Buy Duke’s.”


31 posted on 01/24/2022 9:49:43 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: avenir

I make my mayo with neutral-tasting vegetable oil. As little flavor as possible so I can add whatever other flavors I want at that moment. Olive oil didn’t work for me taste-wise, and neither did coconut oil (hardened when I refrigerated the mayo, so I had solid mayo!).


32 posted on 01/24/2022 9:50:37 AM PST by InGodsTruth
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To: virgil
Baconnaise
33 posted on 01/24/2022 9:51:52 AM PST by real saxophonist (Chuck Todd claps on 1 and 3.)
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To: NautiNurse
I bought 2 bottles of Duke's last Summer while I was in the South. It was good. I never heard of Blue Plate before so I thought I would try it. I ordered 1 jar, it will be here tomorrow.

I refuse to buy Hellmann’s again. I forget exactly why, but I am boycotting a lot of businesses. I see no practical way to boycott a few companies, but I do what I can.

34 posted on 01/24/2022 9:52:41 AM PST by Radix (Politicians; the Law and the Profits)
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To: virgil

You want Baconnaise? I got Baconnaise:

https://www.baconsalt.com/baconnaise


35 posted on 01/24/2022 10:01:42 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Radix

Blue Plate is my first choice recently. When sold out, Duke’s is an easy alternative.


36 posted on 01/24/2022 10:03:05 AM PST by NautiNurse (Who will portray Alec Baldwin in the SNL skit? )
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To: Viking2002

dukes is very good


37 posted on 01/24/2022 10:06:18 AM PST by mylife (France? what can you say? How do you rule a land with 246 kinds of cheese?)
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To: bgill

she is a silly girl...


38 posted on 01/24/2022 10:07:03 AM PST by mylife (France? what can you say? How do you rule a land with 246 kinds of cheese?)
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To: mylife

Almost sounds like she wants to put on a mayo clinic...


39 posted on 01/24/2022 10:27:19 AM PST by Hegemony Cricket (< < Wandering aimfully > >)
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To: carriage_hill; real saxophonist

I didn’t know it was really a thing. :-)


40 posted on 01/24/2022 10:44:42 AM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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