I hate it.
A decent mayonnaise is quite simple in the making. Like 6 Ingredients: 2 egg yolks 250 ml vegetable oil 2 tsp lemon juice salt & pepper ½ tsp mustard
Perfect with chips or for meat. I think it is birthing wrong with it, just a bit tricky on the temperature.
But luckily tastes are different. So, if you don’t like it, just don’t make it.
Wait egg yolks? When I’ve made it, it was with egg whites.
You can do either. Kewpie Mayo uses the yolks
Do they generally use either one or the other? Any use both?
I think just taste. I’ve never made it myself but Kewpie Mayo is very tasty
Four ingredients is enough.
One whole egg, one cup oil, one big pinch salt, one tablespoon vinegar or lemon juice. Stick blend and that’s probably the best mayo you can have.
I find the mustard and pepper make it less versatile and separating the egg whites changes absolutely nothing.
Thought I hated it all until fairly recently. Homemade mayo can be OK. Japanese Kewpi mayo is pretty good. Still, I rarely put it on anything by choice.
I see a few responses on here about “miracle whip”. For those ignoramuses amongst us, what is this thing?
It’s a brand name for a “whipped dressing” product. It’s similar in color and texture to mayonnaise, but it has a different flavor. It’s usually vegetarian ingredients, as opposed to mayo which uses egg
When I was growing up, my mother thought it was healthier, so we never had mayo. So I was used to the flavor of Miracle Whip and generally prefer it.
Thanks, it’s a new one on me
As margirine is to butter…
I always thought it was like a Mr Whippy, but I’m guessing not from this thread! Maybe it’s like salad cream?
It’s “mayonnaise” with “flavor” added to it. And it’s gross as fuck.
It’s so much better than mayo, because a little hit of lemon juice giving it some flavor, some tartness, instead of the congealed snot of mayonnaise
Essentially Americanized mayo. Cheaply produced and processed in massive quantities with lots of added sugar. Personally I find it disgusting (why would you want something savory so sweet?!) But my American grandfather loves it. If you would like to imagine it’s flavor, imagine mixing vanilla ice cream with normal mayo.
It’s one of those American staples that is a cheaper, more readily available, version of European staples that the American public continues to love and eat out of familiarity. American chocolate is similar, though more popular amongst younger Americans. I’d say miracle whip is less popular because quality mayo is now also readily available and very few prefer the cheap imitation. Quality chocolate is still much harder to find thus American chocolate remains popular.
Huh. My experience as an American is never having seen “quality” mayo, but switched to only quality chocolate decades ago
Interesting, thanks!
Japanese mayo is great. Not as sour as regular mayonnaise.
Sour…? Are you getting actual mayonnaise or Miracle Whip? Cuz regular mayo ain’t sour at all. It’s just egg and oil.
Lemon juice or vinegar is a key ingredient of mayo. Its supposed to have a bit of a tang to it. I feel like the fattiness kinda hides the acidity somewhat though
Mayonnaise has lemon juice or similar acid.
Easy to make yourself.
The plant based kind is actually very good.
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After hearing about Kewpie mayo for years I finally got some when I visited Japan and… it’s alright. Not bad, not life changing, just alright. Maybe I’ve just always had good mayo so my standard has been too high.
Remoulade on the other hand, that’s where it’s at. Could drink that shit up with a straw
There’s bad mayonnaise out there, like a lot of bad. I prefer to put it on my fries. It’s very delicious.
Where I used to live a favorite was fries with mayonnaise and cheese powder.
Arctic Circle in Utah gave out fry sauce (aka fancy sauce). It’s just mayo and ketchup, but it was so popular all of the local chains started providing it as well (McDonald’s, Wendy’s, 5 guys). The better ones generally splash a bit of BBQ as well.
I love mayo. Maybe you should try hummus.
Fucking delicious
These 2 opinions are all we need in this thread tbh
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Agreed
It’s what I imagine goblin cum tastes like. Fucking vile.
Why do you spend time imagining what goblin cum tastes like?
This just poses more questions
It’s one of those things that I find good to eat a little bit if it’s with other food, but too much makes it nasty. Same way with pickles, relish, sauerkraut. Great topping to add flavor, terrible as the main flavor of a dish/meal
vinegar is the culprit. its gut rot for me.
Normal mayo (like Hellmann’s or Heinz) is fine and all, but goddamn Kewpie mayo is the shit. It’s easily top 3 readymade condiments in our fridge; we’ve always got a bottle on the go!
Wasabi mayo is my jam. Same kind of squeezie bottle in a bag, but green.
Is it actually different? I thought it was just a different brand. It’s not like miracle whip, right?
nothing like whip, i will never buy another brand of mayo.
they have a citrus flavour too :)
It tastes just like miracle whip to me. I just can’t do it.
I’m a firm believer that Duke’s is the Almighty King of mayonnaise.
It’s absolutely different, a much deeper and more umami flavour! We used to just use it for Asian type dishes that called for it but it’s so good that we’ve essentially replaced normal mayo with it at this point
I have been trying to find a reason to get it and try it. You are that reason.
You’re making a great decision! It’s more expensive than regular mayo but jeez is it worth every penny. We have a Korean shop near us which stocks it at lower prices than regular supermarkets, so we go and stock up occasionally
Kewpie is the reason I’m the mayo monster. I love it in my sandwiches, salads, sushi and ramen. It has an incredibly rich, savory, nutty flavour.
It ruins my Spicy Chicken Sandwich from Wendy’s whenever I forget to specify “no mayo”.
Yeah, I stopped getting it because even when I remembered to say “no mayo”, they’d still pile it on
