Home made mayonnaise: farm fresh eggs not working?

#21

At the farmers market where I buy mine, the vendor tells you if they’ve been washed.
Otherwise, I have no idea lol. (fresh eggs, I mean)

(Little Miss Scare-All) #22

I have just learned a shit ton about eggs and mayo. :metal:

#23

I ended up using 2 yolks and no whites and it thickened perfectly :slight_smile:

#24

One way to tell if the eggs have been washed or not is to look at them :wink:
Seriously (assuming farm fresh free range from farmer [far too many f’s! Lol]) - if they haven’t been washed they are likely to be dirty as the birds don’t bother about avoiding them when they get on and off the nest, also the quite often get pooed on!

It depends on personal choice really. Some people like to put them in fridge, some have them out.
Personally I usually put shop bought (commercially farmed, whatever method) in the fridge and if I get from farm gate/farmers market I leave out.

I also ignore use by dates on egg boxes and use the method we used when we had free range hens and ducks (we were never sure when the eggs we found had been laid - sometimes the birds would lay outside the nest box - so we always did this to our eggs). I ‘float’ them. Raw eggs produce a gas as they age, that doesn’t escape the shell. Put them in a bowl/jug of cold water, temperature isn’t to critical as long as it’s cold, and if they sink they’re fresh, if they float don’t have them. If they Bob about in the middle somewhere, it’s a judgement call. If they Bob but touch bottom when they do I’ll use them, if they don’t touch the bottom I tend not too.

(Roxanne) #25

I use a stick blender, room temperature ingredients, local free range eggs and yellow mustard, add acid st the end, and 19 times out of 20 it works. And 1 time out of 20 it flops, no idea why. Maybe there was a thunderstorm as a previous poster mentioned!

(Donna-Rae Crowell) #26

Funny that you should say that because I have experienced the same thing. Now that I am buying better eggs, my mayonnaise is coming out way thinner than before. It’s still mayonnaise but I like it the way it when I was using store eggs. I didn’t change anything else.