Making mayonnaise. Which oil?

[PK99]

Culinary things I've tried, and decided 'life's too short' when it's generally good, and cheap, from local shops:

1) Making mayonnaise (I love mayo,though)
2) Making hummus

Shop bought mayo - even the premium examples - is but a pale imitation of the real thing

Mayo:

Blend :3 egg yolks and teaspoon dijon mustard in magimix, or bowl if using stick blender.

While blending: add 350ml groundnut or grapeseed oil, dropwise at first then, as it emulsifies, in a steady slow stream

when stiff and all oil added, whisk in 35ml white wine vinegar.

season with salt, pepper, pinch of cayenne to taste

Total time? 5 minutes?

 

[Cyclopathic]

Mods, shouldn't this be in technical know how?

 

[Cyclopathic]

As has been pointed out quite often around these parts, grease is grease.

 

[growingvegetables]

Not (ie NOT!) WD40. It's not a lubricant.

 

[Davidc]

Much as PK99 but I use sunflower oil.

Bit of a faff so only make it for special occasions and Waldorf salads. Must be made using eggs from free roaming free range hens.

 

[Beebo]

Culinary things I've tried, and decided 'life's too short' when it's generally good, and cheap, from local shops:

1) Making mayonnaise (I love mayo,though)
2) Making hummus

Does Miss Goodbody like the taste of your special mayo?

 

[slowmotion]

I picked up grapeseed oil, rapeseed oil and EV olive oil on the way home, together with some pricey eggs. I was going to return to my lab to experiment but a plumbing epic involving an iffy duct-mounted ball valve detained me.

 

[summerdays]

Culinary things I've tried, and decided 'life's too short' when it's generally good, and cheap, from local shops:

1) Making mayonnaise (I love mayo,though)
2) Making hummus

Mayo - yuk so no point making it.

But hummous! When you can make lots of varieties! Currently it's a beetroot one in the fridge, and I'm contemplating a courgette version having found a recipe online and having a glut of the things!

And I tend to use Rape Seed Oil, since I now have a large vat of the stuff from the market!

 

[srw]

Culinary things I've tried, and decided 'life's too short' when it's generally good, and cheap, from local shops:

1) Making mayonnaise (I love mayo,though)
2) Making hummus

The point about making your own hummus is that it's very easy (takes about 5 minutes in a blender) and the shop-bought ones are always too smooth and never have enough garlic.

 

[Sturmey_Hub]

Half sunflower oil and half rapeseed, and the juice from half a lemon

 

[slowmotion]

I have just emerged, boggle-eyed from the lab....

To start with:

2 yolks from pricey fresh Waitrose eggs (at room temperature)
Salt
Black pepper
Juice of half a lemon and a dash of white wine vinegar
A heaped teaspoon of Dijon mustard

Put all this stuff in deep bowl and blend it with a hand held blender (Argos do some electric stick blenders for about six quid)

The oil mixture:

100ml rapeseed oil
100ml grapeseed oil
50ml extra virgin olive oil

Put the oil in a small jug and add it to the eggs etc very, very slowly while you blend away. To begin with, add the oil drop by drop. Don't rush it. It helps if you move the blender up and down so that mixing is more uniform.. The mixture will start to thicken. When it does, you can add the oil more quickly. When you have added all the oil, you should have a lovely thick yellow mayonnaise.. I added half a dozen mashed capers and a crushed garlic clove at the very end.

IMHO, it's quite good. Alas, my food photography leaves a lot to be desired.

All that remains to be done is to invite @threebikesmcginty round to sample it.

EDIT: The yellow colour comes from two ingredients
1) Waitrose's Clarence Court Burford Brown egg yolks
2) Farringdon's Mellow Yellow Cold Pressed Rapeseed Oil

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Sweet Jesus, that looks like baby shíte!

 

[slowmotion]

Sweet Jesus, that looks like baby shíte!

I believe that the polite response would be " TBM thanks SM for the kind invitation but very much regrets he cannot attend".




farking nobber!