My homemade mayo tastes icky. - Page 2

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Originally Posted by Magelet

If it breaks, just add another egg yolk, you don't have to start over.

In terms of not breaking them, just go really really slowly (drop by drop) as you near the end of the oil. A big egg yolk can take a cup of oil, but a smaller one, obviously can't. It can take some practice.

THANK YOU!!!! by the time I was on my 4th egg yolk I could get the emulsion not break until I tried to put in the last 50ml of oil and then failure.

I was scratching my head about it for days trying to figure it out!!

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I can't stand EVOO mayonnaise either. I used to use canola, but even that tasted a bit like drinking straight oil to me. Now I've gone TF it isn't an option... bacon fat sounds intriguing, but it'd take me forever to save and render enough. I wonder if I could find expeller-expressed sunflower oil around somewhere? We're not huge mayo eaters but DH likes potato salad in the summer...