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It's fucking gross.

The smell, the taste, the sound it makes when people scoop big globs of it. And fuck "chefs" who try to church it up and call it aioli to put it on everything.

Your "secret sauce" isn't a fucking secret it's fucking mayo and go fuck yourself I don't want it.

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[-] tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Take an egg yolk. Add half a teaspoon of Dijon mustard. Teaspoon of olive oil. Mix. Then as you continue mixing vigorously, very slowly add some neutral oil, preferably peanut or sunflower but go with generic veg oil if it's all you have. Stop when it's not a liquid anymore.

This is mayo. What you get in stores and 95% of restaurants is not.

Yes I'm a food snob.

[-] thesystemisdown@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I tell people that once you make your own mayo with quality ingredients you'll not want to buy the mass produced stuff. I started making it because everything in the stores uses the cheapest fucking ingredients possible. To your point, it's eggs, oil, acid, and spices. Not a lot to hate there.

[-] Skydancer@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago

When did Peanut become a neutral oil? The flavor it adds is one of the two reasons I usually see it in a recipe (the other being high smoke point).

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Even real mayonnaise comes across as super eggy though.

[-] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

Eggy flavor comes from the yolk. If you don’t want that, you can use eggs whites as your emulsifier. So long as your measurements by weight or volume are the same, whites work just as well as whole eggs.

[-] PenguinMage@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Thank you sir/madam, this is a hill I too will die on. Fuck mayo and aioli.

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

This seems less like an opinion and more like an excuse to rant about a pet peeve.

Luckily, food snobs can go fuck themselves, because nobody can force you to eat mayo no matter what kind it is, so you enjoy your mayo free life, and may you enjoy your food the way you like it :)

[-] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 week ago

I genuinely regularly forget that other people consider mayonnaise to be food. The result is that people ask me if there is anything I don't eat, I tell them the real foods I don't like, and then they serve me something with mayonnaise in it, and I'm surprised and confused why they would do that before I realise that to normies, this is acceptable.

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Is this 4chan copypasta? Nobody thinks Mayonnaise is a food because it's a condiment. I wouldn't think to reply ketchup either.

And what's with the ego about it? Disliking a condiment doesn't make you better than "normies"

[-] Zannsolo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I never forget

[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

I mostly agree, but for some reason there are sauces/dips that are based in mayo that i actually like for some reason (Raising Canes sauce, russian dressing, etc). Mayo on its own is disgusting though.

[-] nomy@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

This is how I feel too. Plain mayo is disgusting but if it's heavily seasoned like a chipotle mayo or garlic sauce I can deal with them. I love hollandaise sauce and that's pretty similar to mayo.

[-] Jikiya@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Sorry, I had to downvote because I completely agree with your position.

[-] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I like savory mayo. Give me some of that sweet salad dressing that people WRONGLY call mayo and I'll throw the sandwich at you.

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

I dont get why people love it so much, same with ketchup

[-] Zannsolo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I don't like ketchup either but my hatred for mayo is on another stratosphere.

[-] slingstone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I love mayo, but I thank you for your service in providing a truly unpopular opinion.

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

This is the unpopular opinion forum, so here goes: I think the same thing about mustard. :p

I don't like gobs of mayo, but I like it as a garnish for some things. Even as a dip for fries (another unpopular one probably). Can't beat a fresh tomato and mayo sandwich.

[-] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Crucial question: salt and pepper on the tomatoes?

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

Not a huge pepper fan, but maybe a dash. Salt depends on where the tomato was grown. My grandfather used to grow his by salt water, and they were perfect off the vine. Importantly, fresh tomato also implies fresh grown and not like most of what you find in the grocery store.

[-] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Spread mayo on the outside of your grilled cheese before cooking and use no oil/butter/lard in the pan for the best grilled cheese sandwich ever.

[-] Zannsolo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Do the same thing with butter and it's not gross

[-] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

I feel personally attacked.

I make it from scratch because it’s easy, cheap, delicious, versatile, and the store-bought stuff has no flavor. If you’ve never had a great homemade mayo, I can understand why you’d think you hate it.

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