something chemical
😂 ‘chemical-free’ mayonnaise is surprisingly flavourless as it is, essentially, not there 😏
Reading Harold McGee’s ‘the curious cook’. A whole chapter on mayonnaise. The main emulsifier in egg yolk is lecithin. He experiments with a few variations, using larger oil:yolk ratios, part-frozen yolks (4 hours in the freezer), adding lemon juice, vinegar, water, and so on. The commercial less-eggy mayonnaises are achieved with frozen yolks. Freezing thickens the yolk on thawing. Salt is an essential ingredient for effective mayonnaise as it thickens the yolk and helps separate the emulsifiers and protein aggregates into smaller ‘particles’: better emulsification and a clearer sauce. ‘A single egg yolk can emulsify many cups of oil’. Though as the oil:yolk ratio increases, shelf life decreases.