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Monday, November 7, 2011

Home Made Mayo is easy for a beginner

To go with all this bread I made mayo to make chicken sandwiches. I am not a huge fan of mayo and I have purchased just one tub of miracle whip in my life, none of mayo. Recently I had olive oil mayo on a sandwich and I just loved it! Knowing that everything tastes better made fresh at home I looked up some recipes. I followed Alton Brown's recipe on making mayo, but I made some changes to go along with what I had at home.
I used just regular white vinegar and added just a smidgen less. I also used olive oil, which gave my mayo a nice light green color (the mustard color came out more in the pic though).
When adding the oil I added it a teaspoon at a time while I was whisking quickly the whole time, towards the end I slackened a bit and added the oil a little quicker because the mixture had "emulsified." This is easy to do with just a whisk but I did have to switch arms a few times, because you want to keep the quick movement of the whisk so it the mayo doesn't turn out runny. I used a bit less than a cup of oil also, because others had theirs come out runny. It came out perfectly and although I am not brave enough to try it on its own, I mixed it up into some chicken salad tried a bit on my Amish white bread, died and went to heaven. :)

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