Key Takeaways
• Miracle Whip tastes sweet and contains ingredients such as corn syrup and spices with high fructose.
• Mayonnaise (especially hearty brands like Duke) has a more rich mouthfeel and is more spicy.
• The “best” hitch is the one you like the most.
I recently told a friend that I worked on a story about Mayonnaise and Miracle Whip. When mentioned by Miracle Whip, she folded her nose and said: “Yuck!” Then she asked me: “Whatever Is Miracle Whip? ”
This is not the only time that I saw this negative reaction to Miracle Whip – including those who have never tried and don’t even know what it is.
Mayonnaise and Miracle Whip look almost identical and are sold side by side in the supermarket. So why some people-in one-Mayo lover as an anti-miracle whip? It is probably the other way around: there are people who love Miracle Whip and don’t like Mayo. What is the real difference between the two and why do people have such strong feelings on them? Let us immerse yourself.
The difference between Mayo and Miracle Whip
Mayo and Miracle Whip have a lot together. While both homemade mayonnaise and the Mayo bought in the shop vary slightly in their ingredients, the two primary oil and egg yolk (or sometimes whole eggs) are. Mayo typically also contains an acid such as vinegar and/or lemon juice, salt and sometimes sugar and other spices.
In order to be identified as “mayonnaise”, the FDA must have an “emulsified half-solid food” of herbal oil, a teased ingredient (vinegar, lemon juice and lime juice are approved here) and an “egg-yolk-containing inner piece” (liquid egg yolks, frozen egg-yolks) and Trouldy-Yolks, dried egg hunters and dried egg hunters and trooly-yolks and trooly-yolks and trooly-yolks, trooly-yolks and troildy-yolks). In addition, it has to have no less than 65% vegetable oil.
Miracle Whip is a brand of creamy Mayo-like spread, which was introduced at the 1933 world mass. Like Mayo, Miracle Whip Oil contains an acid (vinegar) and eggs. It also contains corn syrup with high fructose, mustard powder, peppers, dried garlic and “spice”. Kraft-Heinz labels Miracle Whip as a “dressing”, but it can be coated like Mayo.
For me, the most remarkable taste difference between Miracle Whip and most of the Mayo bought in the shop is that Miracle Whip is sweeter.
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To defend the miracle whip
I asked several food experts where they landed in the debate between Mayo and Miracle Whip, and I found fans of both.
The weight for Team Miracle Whip is Ann Taylor PittmanA James Beard-Prize-crowned grocery, recipe developer and Cookbook author– The latest is The global pantry cookbookPresent Together with Scott Mowbray.
“I grew up as our house ‘Mayo’ and always have it with cold ham -sandwiches in a cooler for road trips,” says Pittman, who was born in Mississippi and now lives in Birmingham, Alabama.
“Well, that and the pear salad in doses would do my grandmother by transferring Miracle Whip into a pear half and with a Maraschino cherry.”
Pittman loves traditional mayonnaise, but it has to be a miracle whip for certain recipes. “It has a sweeter taste as Mayo and is my point of contact for Waldorf salad, every baking recipe (such as chocolate cake) that demands mayonnaise, or sandwiches from thick ham,” she said.
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To praise Mayo
With the weighing for Team Mayo, Breaana Lai Killen, Koch, recipe developer, nutritionist and farmer is at Killen Crossroads Farm in Vermont, who grew up in North Carolina.
“Let’s start with the fact that I have a lot of opinions about mayonnaise because I think it’s the best spice and that I will argue with anyone,” says Killen. “When I grew up in the south, there is only a kind of Mayo who has a cult support, and this is Duke’s”, the South Carolina Mayonnaise brand, which is made without additional sugar, in contrast to Mayos of Kraft, Hellmann’s and Kewpie.
“But I am Asian, so I also grew up with a lot of kewpie. My first restaurant job was in a place where Pimiento cheese and eggs were devilty. That was my first taste in Hellmans. Admittedly, I never knew about Miracle Whip until I worked in a test kitchen in which we had humans from the middle west and Texas who grew up on Miracle Whips.”
“If you taste Miracle Whip vs. Mayo, the difference in taste is different,” added Killen. “The Mayo has more weight on her tongue and the miracle whip tastes sweeter. Since I am always a hearty person over sweet person, I always use Mayo.”
One case to use only what you like
For grocery author, recipe developer and creator of The real recipesAdam Dolge, a preference for Mayo, is nothing more than a preference – not a moral attitude.
“I grew up in a Mayo household, especially Hellmann’s mayonnaise,” says Dolge from the Syracuse region in the state of New York. “My mother put it on our sandwiches, served it as a dip for roasted potatoes and whirled it in pan sauces. I have happy memories of eating a sandwich with freshly picked tomatoes and a large Mayo smear.”
“I have less pleasant memories of eating excessively sweet tuna salad sandwiches and suffocating a strangely tasting herb salad (the miracle whip) in the house of a buddy.”
It took many years for me to try out different Mayo brands. Last, after I lived in Birmingham, Alabama, I tried to love Dukes mayonnaise. It has a pronounced tang, it is super creamy and there is no hint of sweetness as with Hellmann’s mayonnaise. I think that when it matters, regular mayonnaise (really every brand) will always be my preference. But it’s just that, a preference. I prefer less sweetness, tangere mayonnaise in contrast to a sweeter alternative like Miracle Whip. ”
Killen is right: “I have the feeling that Mayo is more than anything else about brand loyalty!”
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Use what best suits the recipe (or you)
I grew up with a mother from Louisiana and a Michigan father in North Carolina. We were a Mayo household and used them on sandwiches, in salads and mixed with mustard to reduce burgers. I was an indeligible Mayo lover all my life, but I wasn’t sure if I had eaten Miracle Whip.
So I got a glass and tried it alongside Mayos from Hellman, Sir Kensington and Kewpie. And here is the thing – they all tasted great!
Miracle Whip is sweeter than other Mayos, as is Kewpie, like Pittman, I think it is best for sweeter dishes such as macaroni salad or maybe a BLT. I also tried it in sweet and spicy Sriracha and was packed on tomatoes, which was delicious. Next I smear the combination about salmon and rice shells, fries fries and sandwiches.
Take away
Regardless of whether you grew up on mayonnaise or Miracle Whip, it is worth putting the brand loyalty aside and trying out the other spread. It is space in my heart for Mayo and Miracle Whip – even though my refrigerator becomes a little tight with all the spices.
