Make Your Own Mayonnaise Aka Mayo

REMEMBER - miracle whip is NOT real mayo
while HELLMAN's is REAL

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Ditch the food processor, you are NOT going to need it

Let all your ingredients come to room temperature b4 starting
this is very important !!!

Get out a small bowl
and, into the small bowl
place just 'the yolk' of 1 egg
(discard the egg white)

That little marvel
~the egg york, is what holds all the ingredients together !!!

That is why some people call MAYO or MAYONNAISE - Miracle Whip !!!

In a 2nd small bowl
add:
2 tsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
two pinches of sugar in the raw
1/2 teaspoon of fine sea salt
1/2 teaspoon of dry mustard (white, brown, black, whatever you prefer)
1 tablespoon of white wine vinegar
1 cup avocado oil (or, you can use safflower, corn, regular veggie oil too)

Now, whisk your yolk a bit, and after stirring your ingredients
in their separate bowl until they're roughly combined,
add just half of the liquid you've concocted into your whisked egg yolk.

What I like to do with the oil is to save a squeeze bottle of any kind,
with a small spout. add your pre-measured cup into it
and slowly drizzle it into your mixture.

In a minute, you'll begin to see the viscosity start to decrease.

As you squeeze the oil in, it'll disappear into the surroundings.

At this point, I've worked about a third of my oil in.

So that's when I add the rest of the vinegar, salt, sugar
and whatever other goodies you've got.

After this point, you can increase the rate at which your oil
is being introduced, now that the emulsion is nice and healthy.

Whisking this all in by hand cuts down on any heat
that is introduced by using your blender, or food processor.

I think the problem with your mayo "setting up"
is a either a heat problem coupled with the fact
that if you're following this recipe, you're using a whole egg.

The egg whites might be causing your mixture to solidify.

Or, the sheer speed of the food processor is knocking out the emulsion,
causing the oil droplets to bump into each other and form a larger oil bubble,
like a rested bottle of vinaigrette.

I hope this helps you out.

Good mayo makes happy people.