Mayonnaise!

Step 6 Et voila!

... and you should have a jar full of delicious, ready to use mayonnaise. Taste, and adjust the seasoning to your own preference.

On the left is the red-pepper flavored aioli we just made; on the right, a mustard flavored version. Both will keep in the fridge.

The hot peppered on in particular is great with seafood- that's what the French serve on the side with Boullibaise. Try it with fried fish, mussles, sardines, anything. The other is great with tuna, burgers, just experiment.

A note on food safety: Since this uses a raw egg, I only buy organic, vegetable fed eggs to help insure against salmonella.

Comments

[bcnr33skyline187]

how long before it goes bad

[EveMarie]

1 week

[komodo 3000]

well, im not TOO concerned about getting salmonella. You always have to take risks like that.

[userman]

"Organic vegetable fed eggs" are no guarantee against salmonella. In fact salmonella is more likely to be found in organic flocks. Pasteurized eggs are the way to go if you're concerned about salmonella.

[not2far2drive]

Totally false, salmonella is much worse and thrives in cramped inhumane conditions, like major corporate chicken farms where the chickens are kept in a tiny box crammed next to one another for their whole lives. They are way better off outside in the sunshine where they can free roam on organic farms.

http://www.deliciousorganic.com/Controversies/eggsactly.htm

[mje]

Read Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma". Most "Free Range" chickens spend their entire life indoors. While brood hens are kept in boxes, most factory chickens are raised in indoor pens. The only difference between those birds and the ones labeled "free range" is that the "free range" birds get somewhat more room and a door they can use to go into an outdoor pen once they've passed a certain age- by which time they're conditioned to stay indoors! That's all the FDA rules require tor that label. A tiny fraction of the birds labeled "organic" and "free range" ever actually see the outdoors. To get one you need to buy your chickens right from a farm, or at a farmer's market.

[paul2006]

That's what I love about living in Lancaster County, PA. I bought some eggs a couple weeks ago from an Amish farm where I can see the chickens running around outside. At least I know where my eggs are coming from! :) I made the mayonnaise last night and it was quite good! Mine didn't thicken up a lot, but enough to be close to the right consistency. I tried Thomi's suggestion below about adding some commercial mayonnaise to thicken it up and that helped a bit. I was using a whisk by hand though, so that might have been my problem. Thanks for the good Instructable!

[85rocco]

For those of you concerned about salmonella risk using raw eggs, I've found that the yokes of soft boiled eggs work just as well as raw eggs for making mayo.

[mje]

I did a little research after reading this. In the UK a survey found no significant differences between barn, free-range, and organic eggs. A study by the Humane Society of the US found similar results. I'll keep buying organic, vegetable-fed eggs for the taste, and rely on the lemon juice to kill salmonella- which occurs in only one out of every 20,000 eggs.

[userman]

Did you see this study: http://library.wur.nl/ojs/index.php/njas/article/viewFile/346/65

[mje]

That comes from a small sample in Holland, and the numbers are very different from those in the US and UK studies. One problem with small samples and a fairly rare incidence is that it clusters- you don't find just one infected animal in a flock. Most of the infected birds came from just a few flocks.

[redragon]

IF you get the 1 in 20,000 infected eggs and IF it was handled improperly and IF you are using old eggs and IF you are young, old Nursing or have an immune problem then that's when to worry but for me that's A LOT of IFs. Yes you can get salmonella! but it is highly unlikely.

[modcult]

Where do you find these kind of organic eggs?

[mje]

Trader Joe's are the cheapest, but there's also Whole Foods, the local Farmer's Market, and really, most every large market these days.

[modcult]

Thank you. I can find Whole Foods and Trader Joes in the area.

[mikeroq]

"organic, vegetable fed eggs" Shouldn't you say "organic eggs from vegetable fed hens"