Mayonnaise

Preparation info
  • Makes

    400-500 ml

    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Damien Pignolet

Published 2005

  • About

This is a universally popular sauce; it is easy to make and keeps well. Food processors make mayonnaise very efficiently but in my opinion the result lacks the character of the handmade sauce. Some years ago I developed a bowl shaped in such a way as to make handmade mayonnaise infallible. Culinary folklore states that the eggs and oil should be at room temperature, and even goes so far as to suggest that mayonnaise will curdle if refrigerated; this is nonsense. The process is simple and th