I’m sad that I missed posting this on the 4th
Hey we aren’t the weirdos who dip our fries in it.
Oh wait that does sound pretty good actually
I wouldn’t want to dip my fries in Americans.
Real American Mayonaise , nearly 2 litres each, comes in a 2 pack…
That is for restaurants lol don’t worry
Don’t know what you’re talking about. As an American, I have one in my fridge. And I carry one to work. To add to my lunch, my coffee, of the sun is too hot and might burn my skin…
My family of 4 goes through that much in about 6 months.
I don’t know how okay I am with keeping mayo for 6 months
PH is 3-4, nothing wants any of that action.
There’s a reason ketchup and mayonnaise are the classic American condiments, that being that they are acidic enough to remain shelf stable for years. I ain’t even joking pre refrigerators that was a massive boon and fridges didn’t become common for house holds until the 1950s ice boxes not withstanding.
Ridiculous excess. Probably also has three times the ingredients.
The bigger a container I buy, fewer resources are wasted on packaging and transport
To be fair, it’s a bulk club; they’re designed to service businesses, but price-wise to value we go through that much in a year and they have great expiration dates. My pantry exceeds the stock of a small European market :)
Is the American mayonnaise even as real as this real American mayonnaise??
Can you fit your fist through the top? Can you scoop out a handful easily and leave fingertrails in the bottom? Then it’s just normal sized IMO.
That’s just silly, its not even that big. That’s a normal big jar of mayo.
With chocolate bars, premade meals, drinks, ect, its a “size” that works as a gimmick but mayo?
As an American, that’s a normal small size of mayo. Most of our “regular” sizes are almost double that, this is about the size of those smaller squeeze bottles:
Mayo squeeze bottle, the best thing since sliced bread, especially when it’s used on said sliced bread 🥪
This bottle design is an utter bastard. You simply can’t get the last bits out of there no matter how much you wait or bang or make it cough and splutter to your food.
I’m sure someone has actually designed it that way as opposed to designing it in a way that would be best for the consumer.
Get yourself some long mini spatulas. Amazing for cleaning out jars.
Oh yeah I do, like a silicon scraper. But one of those wouldn’t fit into one of those tiny shop mayo squeezer bottles.
The openings on these generic mayo bottles is like 3cm, whereas on the squeezer mayo bottle, it’s like less than one.
But aye, the silicon scrapers “mini-spatulas” are great at scraping anything. Saves me like 5% of loss on with my blender, lol. Also really goot when you’re prepping things for freezing.
I think the standard for squeeze bottles are 3cm. That’s what 99% of ketchup bottles I have ever seen are.
Just measured my Kraft squeeze mayo in my fridge and it’s 3cm.
I use my mini spatulas to clean my ketchup containers
Personally I don’t use enough Mayo to run out before I need to replace the bottle. If I got the same size jar it would be the same thing, I’m not scraping out the last bits of months old mayo either way. Doesn’t sound appealing.
You made me get up to look for a tape measure. Couldn’t find one. 2e coin will have to do.
The Hellmans mayo bottle is definitely not 3cm. The other one is way wider but the Hellmans is barely the size of a 2e coin, a 2e coin not fitting in it and a 2e coin being roughly an inch (25.75cm as opposed to an inch which is 2.54cm)
Look at this
Idk of any inch wide mini spatulas. Could be useful but I’ve not seen any.
My ketchup bottles are also probably closer to 2" than 1"
Oh and I’m not gonna use the bottle I had the coin on, it was on sale but I didn’t like it so I’m just waiting to throw it away. Also I don’t ever scrape bottles of month old mayo, if I make my own I use it like at least within a week. Even if it’s mixed from mayo and other premade sauces that have long shelf lifes. I just use the bottle as a sort of medium. I make a mix of sauces, because the ketchup isn’t tasty enough, but the mayo ain’t hot enough, and the mustard isn’t sweet enough. So I mix a bit of all in decent relations, then throw in a bit of garlic, spices, jalapeño relish. Then blend and put in the squirter.
Use for a day or a couple. Then get rid.
Then rinse and repeat.
I don’t need to worry about that because I just refill it from a larger container
Yeah don’t do that multiple times. One or two times isn’t going to kill you but if you did it for years and had pieces of ancient mayo in there that sounds like a health concern.
I’ll go get a new knife if I have to open up a new jar to finish something.
Got to clean your containers and not just top them up, lol
Well then it’s not a terrible solution, sure, but if you’re going through the trouble already, why not use one of
These. They’re practically free, way better shape, easy to wash, and prolly easier to fill given the whole size on those small bastards.
Also making your own mayo / sauces is something I’m kinda used to doing nowadays. I used to think it takes a lot of effort but nah, just mix some mayos/sauces/spices/herbs/garlic, give a tiny blend if there’s hard parts and that’s it. Sometimes I fluff it up by gently adding Turkish yogurt after squeezing it out of the bottle (the yogurt loses consistency if you blend it, so I blend everything else, put it in a squeezer, than lightly mix that with the yoghurt)
How does it compare to amateur mayonnaise?
Amateur mayonnaise practices until it gets it right.
Professional mayonnaise practices until it does not get it wrong.
Sips from mayonnaise bucket
Slurps from Coke bucket
Sticks entire head into KFC bucket
Rinse and repeat until coronary arteries are plugged shut
“Murica”
You didn’t even microwave it first.
Am Statesian. That’s a medium here
Costco size in the US:
For those in less free areas, that’s about 3x the size as the one in the picture. Regular grocery-store mayo (in a jar) is about half the Costco size (something like 850 grams?), and mayo in a squeeze bottle is about the size of the jar picture above.
We, uh, kinda like mayo here…
I think the Costco size is 1.15L can check when I get home
The one in the picture is 1.9L.
$5, it would cost me more than that just to get the eggs to make it.
It’s also from 6 years ago…
Ahhh
here’s my go-to dip
1/2 cup mayonnaise (may substitute sour cream, but i can’t remember what it tastes like)
1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
1 can water-packed artichoke hearts
1 T minced garlic (when cooking for normal people, just use 1 t but i go to the garlic festival and like those quantities)
1/4 t red pepper flakes
paprika (garnish)- drain artichoke hearts, cut into small pieces.
- Mix all ingredients together except paprika.
- Put into souffle dish and sprinkle paprika on top for color.
- Bake at 350 degrees f for 20 minutes or until golden and bubbly.
- Serve with crackers or baguette thins. Our local bakery does this great crusty pugliese with a wonderful crumb.
My shortcut is that i throw all the ingredients (except the paprika) in the food processor instead of cutting anything myself, then let it do the shredding. The recipe originally didn’t have garlic or red pepper flakes in it, so you can add your own variations if you’d like.
We do grilled cheese with it. spread both outsides of the cheese sandwich with mayo, fry it lightly in a pan with butter, the pull the sandwich out and throw down a couple tablespoons of shredded cheddar/jack and throw the sandwich back on top the cheese, cook until crunchy, do the same on the other side.
I will always approve of adding garlic. 😀
Thanks for the recipe!
That is pretty much exactly 1/3 of the size we usually buy in the US. I think it’s a little over 21 oz, I always buy the 64 oz size. Our family goes through it pretty quickly.
In Europe it’s code for “fatlards”.
Wow, this made me realize I haven’t seen mayo in a glass jar in years.
Same.
I’ve been loving Kewpie squeeze bottles and Truff mayo.
Avocado mayo comes in a glass jar in my area.
I picked up one last month. Organic. Hated it…
That’s not big enough.
It should be the 2 gallon Costco-sized jug to truly be 'Merican.
Are all your jars made from plastic?
Nearly. The exceptions would be for pasta sauce, pickled or fermented things. An even some of those are plastic.
For most things where dropping it is likely and would definitely break it. It also lines up with the cost change for glass going up as the container gets bigger.
I figure part of it is people having a preference for the lighter jar for big quantities, and liking the rigidity of glass for the smaller ones.
The cheap stuff is. If you get the avocado mayo, it generally comes in a glass jar and is about the size of the OP.
90%
Maybe American ant size. Costco sells a lovely 1.9L jar.
That’s nothing compared to Slavic-sized!
Liter? Americans aren’t even consistent with their weird systems of measurements. Why is it not marked as 568.3844 fl oz? Or 0.244 football fields or 38.38383 yards or smth
We had a big push to try to adopt metric for a bit. It stalled out for various reasons, but it ended with metric units being required on food and stuff, metric being the official system of the government, and new things introduced in that period being referred to in metric.
So beverages come in 8, 12, 16, and 20oz, 1 liter, 2 liter, and gallon.We also print both units on just about everything.
It’s 64oz, or a half gallon, i.e. the smallest unit of milk anyone would buy.
All food and drinks are sold in metric amounts which typically are also very close to an imperial measure.
America labels things in freedom and metric. What doesn’t make sense to be is using volume and not weight.
Yeah, I had to look up a converter to figure out how many grams a mayo-ounce is.
Even the jar looks like it needs to be on a diet
Almost enough for a regular Midwestern salad.
64 fluid ounces = 128 servings of 1 Tablespoon = 11,520 total calories, if you use a child-cheater to scrape out every drop.
A what??
Oh sorry, family word maybe? A child cheater is a flexible spatula (rubber or silicone) rounded on one side, that scrapes all the yummy cake batter out of the bowl and into the baking pan, leaving not enough to lick.
Kinda dumb that these two are called the same thing. They’re for very different use cases.
The “child cheater” is sometimes referred to as a rubber spatula to differentiate it.
Agreed, although I prefer silicone rather than rubber these days, it holds up better with heat.
Yep, silicone spatulas are also a thing.
Definitely a local thing, I’ve never heard of it, and I’m a born and raised bowl licker.
That makes sense!
I found a 128 ounce (3.758 litre) jar at Walmart.
That seems kind of expensive. The Costco 64oz variety is often on sale for <$10.
It’s called a tub of mayonnaise thank you very much.
Psh! Nobody could take a bath in a tub that small.
Wow, only 100 calories!
Hell yeah, save by buying a 4-pack.
For anyone unaware, the gallon size of condiments (mayo, ranch dressing, hot sauce, etc) is typically for food service. IOW, restaurants and the like.
That said, there’s nothing stopping individuals from getting it, so the point is still valid.
The 10 gallon size is for food service. The gallon size is for large families. I knew a couple with ten kids who would kill a gallon of mayo quickly.
I worked prep at a buffet, and there was a salad that we made in bulk that used exactly one full gallon of mayo. i got really good at scooping it all out with a spatula in one fluid spiral.
just one of many otherwise completely useless skills i developed in foodservice lmao
I worked at a pizza buffet when I was in high school. The ranch dressing, made in 5 gallon buckets, called for multiple gallons of mayo and buttermilk. I too got far too skilled at getting it all out in one go.
Mayo and sour cream are like 80% of the sauces in most restaurants.
Worked at a seafood restaurant and we made coleslaw in basically a 40 gallon trashcan. Even had this auger that you attacked to the top to make it a huge food processor. It would use multiple gallons of mayo.
those are for “restaurants”
In the way a family size is for a “family”
600g? Those are rookie numbers. You call that American size? Our smallest jars are 390 (15 oz) grams. Regular and large jars are 780 (30 oz) and 1248 grams (48 oz). And they do have ridiculously big jars too, 1 gallon jars, i.e. 128 oz and 3328 grams, for, like, restaurants and doomsday preppers… or dudes that just really love mayonnaise, I guess.
There’s also the family that uses mayo and only goes shopping once a month or whatever. Some of those bigger jars are something like two normal sandwiches a day for a month, which is totally possible if you’re packing lunch for two kids.
Some of our preposterous containers of food are because some people decide to live unreasonably far from a grocery store, or just go shopping infrequently and buy huge amounts of food.
(This has the side effect of making them buy bigger cars to hold the groceries and family that now has to come along because it’s such a long trip, and that makes it miserable so they try to do it as infrequently as possible, so they need to buy a lot of groceries to hold them over. )Restaurants use a 10 gallon bucket (37.8 liters).
So does my homemade mayo shower.
Why did you DIY? I thought those came standard…
or dudes that just really love mayonnaise, I guess.
You know it’s nice to be seen
Out of curiosity, I just checked my pantry. I have two 30 ounce jars (1400+ grams), sitting in reserve.
This genuinely represents a failure to comprehend the scale of American food products.
Bro, stop. I can only laugh at Americans so much. And with your fascist leadership I now feel kinda bad for laughing at you.
Rookie numbers. We get the 64oz Costco size.
I haven’t seen anything under 20oz in my supermarket, but I’m not buying the fancy “organic” stuff, just the squeeze things for picnics and the larger jars for home.
Maybe don’t eat the mayo in the doomsday prepper bunker.
You leave me and my gallons of bunker mayo alone.
That sounds like how the zombie apocalypse starts.
Zombie or no zombie, it’s how I’m going out.
They’re not lieing…
this is literally the first thing that comes up if you search mayonaise in the US.
In Brazil the “American cup” is the smallest size of cup and I’m always found that hilarious.
Could that be from an “americano” coffee?
If it holds soda, then it makes no sense at all, because a small is larger than many areas’ “large” (sometimes 16oz, or almost 500 ml).
The name americano refers to machinery imported from the United States that was used in the 1940s to produce the first piece.
Ah, makes sense, we had more reasonable portions back then.
In America the family sized mayo comes in a 55 gallon barrel. That’ll last for about a month.
The worst thing is… I don’t know if I laugh or if I believe this.
The real worse thing is I have absolutely no idea how big 55 gallons would be, or how big the one in the photo is.
Every barrel you see on TV or in a movie is 55 gallon or 42 gallon.
Other sizes exist but those two are so prevalent that you really only see those. The size comes from the oil industry where it’s a standard unit. It’s common to sell oil in different units, but the barrel size is so common that everyone just uses the same container and maybe just rounds the units.
Can’t use a 42 gallon barrel , has to be the metric 160L, or the 200L 55 gallon drum.55 gallons is about the size of the average American, or something in the neighborhood of 200kg.
You’re mixing up weight and volume measurements, and everyone knows an average American is a lot of decibels.
Nah, the ounce is a unit of weight and volume. 55 gallons = 7040 fl oz ~= 7040 oz ~= 440 lbs = 200kg.
Aren’t American units great? Here’s a nice converter for various things, including mayo, which is ~0.94 oz per fl oz. But generally speaking, a fluid ounce is roughly the same as a weight ounce, kind of like how a milliliter is roughly the same as a gram (exactly equal for water, while a fluid ounce isn’t exactly equal to a weight ounce for water).
Because that all makes perfect sense.
Well, the kg bit does anyway.
Yup, the average American certainly is 200kg. 😀
The explodey barrels in fps games are typically 55 gallon drums
I have absolutely no idea how big 55 gallons would be
Something a bit larger than 200l… I think an oil barrel is around that size (and yeah, it’s “the standard unit” for that).
In all seriousness, if the GP said it was a 2 gallon container I would honestly not know if it was true.
https://www.webstaurantstore.com/hellmanns-real-mayonnaise-24-gallon-drum/125HLMN8828.html
The largest sold to consumers through normal channels is a gallon. Typically used by people who are feeding a lot of people, like making a dish for a large family gathering, or by people who only go shopping once a month or less. Some people live an hour from the store, so they just buy an excessive amount of food and shop infrequently.
Yup, a gallon is about 3.75 times the size of a liter, or multiply by 4 and round down.
The average family size is shrinking. I’ve seen my neighbors stretch 55 gallons to 6 or even 7 weeks.
The times, they are a changin’…
Eh, I think the overall size is about the same, but the number of people is reducing.
Ain’t no folks enjoy a good ol’ mayo slip’n’slide no more
I just converted it. It’s more than 200kg! Does the whole family drink a glass of it everyday? How in the world are you finishing that in a month?
One glass? Do you want to get dehydrated?
They are exaggerating. The foodservice packs top out at 10 gallons/37.85 liters as it becomes too heavy.
I think they were exaggerating for comedic effect. I hope…
For a family on a diet maybe
I prefer the 300 gallon IBC tote. Then I can unload it from my pickup truck with the pallet forks on my skid-steer and put it straight into the mayo door on the side of my house.
I heard the Rivian comes w/ an air compressor. Maybe consider using that to spray the mayo straight from the truck so you don’t need the fork lift.
That MIGHT last my wife a single week.
Maybe if you’re Mormon or bathing in it
¿Por que no los dos?
