Call this a non-scale victory.
I’ve always enjoyed knowing my way around a kitchen. Before Keto I never thought of making my own mayonnaise (except that I’ve made Caesar dressing from scratch for 35 years and it starts with egg yolk, oil, lemon, vinegar. Duh.).
I can’t find any mayo in stores now that I want to buy after looking at the ingredients, so I decided to make my own.
Last night. AFTER chopping up 3 boiled eggs, I began.
- Experiment 1: With electric stick mixer, failed to achieve thickening. Hypothesis: stick whirly-thing did not reach bottom of bowl so made inconsistent contact with yolk and tiny amounts of oil.
- Exp 2: With Little Bullet blender, failed to achieve thickening, Hypothesis: Maybe it’s the f’ing oil.
- Exp 3: With Little Bullet blender, and now sesame oil instead of avocado oil, failed to achieve thickening, Hypothesis: blender motor is making the mixture too dang hot.
- Exp 4 (now I’'m feeling glad that I buy eggs 24 at a time): Back to the stick, with sesame oil. Same fricken results. Hypothesis: Maybe the electric tools are a distraction. Hypothesis: Get out the whisk!
- Exp 5: Nirvana! The yolk and a touch of sesame oil started thickening right away. As I added more oil, it stayed thick. Soon, I had nearly a cup of beautiful creamy yellowish concoction. I whisked in a little lemon juice and apple cider vinegar. The treasure is revealed! I now have the most beautiful, exquisite, I-dare-say perfect little bowl of delicious mayo I’ve ever seen in my life.
I’d post a picture, but it would look like a bowl of mayo.
I’m brought to tears. Yes, I used $20 worth of avocado oil, sesame oil, and eggs to get a cup of mayo.
I can now eat my dang egg salad. In my excitement I pour on way too much mayo. Soup. Scrumptious egg salad soup (with salt, pepper and a little smoked paprika of course).
#Win!
I can now imagine having a lunch or dinner guest and (knowingly) look in the fridge and say “Oh, hmmm. I’m out of mayo” Then, with just a touch of gourmet smugness I’ll continue, “Well no worries, I’'ll just whip some up. It’ll only take five minutes.”