mayo: the devil's condiment

i prefer aioli without egg

og aioli apparently uses garlic as emulsifier (so a lot of it is needed since it's not a v good agent for emulsification) which is pounded with olive oil in a mortar. and salt. in culinary school i recall being told aioli starts with cooked potato being mashed first then garlic and oil added - the tater in this case keeping the mess together. i dunno the derivation of modern day a-holey.

vegan mayo is super easy to make, anyways, this recipe is awesome fwiw: http://veganepicurean.blogspot.com/2009/05/homemade-veganaise.html

og aioli apparently uses garlic as emulsifier (so a lot of it is needed since it's not a v good agent for emulsification) which is pounded with olive oil in a mortar. and salt

this is how i like it best.

need to get a new mortar and pestle

I have never been able to whisk mayonnaise into being.

i have never had real mayonnaise because peasant intuition tells me: eating raw egg yolk will make u die faster than industrially processed 5% pasteurised egg yolk mixed with a load of chemical gack will! In Asda right now they are selling shrink-wrapped duo packs of heinz ketchup/mayo for £2.50. Talk about the fucking Swiss army knife of condiment packages!

from that article upthread: and Red Robin launched a vegan burger. You don’t put mayo on a vegan burger.

Wheres this person been? "accidentally vegan" mayo has been a thing forever, thanks to cheapass food processing meaning a lot of cheaper brand mayos having no eggs in em to begin with.

I recently ordered a steak and cheese from a local sandwich shop

They gave me a steak and mayo

IT WAS REPULSIVE

I've been hearing about this midwest thing called "fry sauce" which is a mix of mayonnaise and ketchup, is this good?

pink-orange mayo is generally good stuff

just ftr

The Utah-based Arctic Circle restaurant chain claims to have invented fry sauce around 1948.

It's also a Puerto Rican thing that's served with tostones

it tastes like mayo combined with ketchup

I didn't anticipate typing this today, but I have only grown to appreciate the flavor and sophistication of mayonnaise over the course of my life

I "invented" mixing ketchup with mayo when I was 7 or so

I would like to reiterate that I was served a steak and mayo sandwich when I was expecting a steak and cheese

There was so much mayo on this thing that I thought it was a steak and cheese until I bit into it

lol xp

Meatloaf? Meh.

Cold meatloaf sandwich with a bunch of mayo and black pepper? Delish.

DJP, that is an actual nightmare

i mean how much mayo are we talking about on this mayo and steak sandwich? if it's a smear then i can't relate but if it's a layer or like a blanket of mayo then yeah that's gross.

I'm picturing visible cords of mayo

ropey strands

Oozing out the sides on each bite. (Though I presume there was just one.)

I'd like to present the worst bakery food I ever found in China, this is from a little bakery on a university campus in an obscure fourth-tier regional capital.

https://i.imgur.com/6gecaIW.png

Pictured: sweet bun, pork floss, eggs(???), frankfurter, congealed mayonnaise

jesus

omg just looking at that 🤢

absolutely vile

I "invented" mixing ketchup with mayo when I was 7 or so

― rascal clobber (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, September 16, 2020 5:27 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Mayo and ketchup seems like a pretty innocuous and predictable mixture but an absolutely disgusting idea for a 7 year old to have

we only had salad cream, but I was mixing that with ketchup from a similar age.
How do mayonnaise-haters feel about salad cream? Think it's probably less offensive.

same damn thing

Chinese cuisine is among the world's most diverse. The high levels of invention and creativity evidenced in CAL's photo are sure to lead someday to new and revelatory dishes such as we cannot yet imagine. But the path to that bright future is not all strewn with rose petals and glory. The path will be strewn also with the wreckage of many failures and mayo may be involved. Charles Darwin would understand.

eating a tuna melt with some kewpie mayo in the tuna and spread on outside of bread before grilling, A+

The worst food in China - by far - is the "Western Food"

British people: is there something working-class about salad cream or am I crazy?

The Chinese are only just getting their toes wet in the exciting world of Chinese-American food. Perhaps if Panda Express were to open some cooking schools there...

Nothing at all wrong with mayo, people with food issues go find a shrink to pat your hand and say "there there, did the bad emulsion scare you"

Just kidding but nah, mayo is a good thing.

― The Jesus and Mary Lizard (WmC), Sunday, 23 September 2012 14:15 (seven years ago) link

Life's too short to not eat, basically, everything.

British people: is there something working-class about salad cream or am I crazy?

― rascal clobber (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, September 16, 2020 11:11 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah, i feel like mayonnaise was too posh for my family when i was growing up

miracle whip was the working class mayo in my area (western us)

i can't even remember the taste tho

I tried miracle whip, it was nasty, and I like mayo and salad cream.

more like disaster whip

Ah, back when I was playing around with rudeness as an online style. (Glad I got over it.)

you were right though, mayo haters are snowflakes

j/k

what's odd about mayo haters isn't that they hate mayo, but that they feel it necessary to argue that mayo hate is a fundamental value of all right-thinking humans and eating mayo is ipso facto evidence of depravity.

it’s a humor thing

ok. now do carrots.

carrots are better than mayo

that's all you've got?

http://www.flooby.com/images/fcorigin4b.jpg

it’s not too hard to make mayonnaise, it just requires an egg, a neutral flavored oil, and a little mustard, wine vinegar, salt, and lemon juice, and a food processor

i think i bought some bad mayo, even though the date implies it should be good? wasn't right.

mayo is probably ruined for a few years now.

I can relate to that. it will hopefully not be for that long. I couldn’t eat a lot of foods for a while after my college organic chemistry lab experience