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Do you have any advantage in either the quality, price, or consistency of your water, salt, vinegar or seeds? In 99.9% of cases the answer is "no" and procurin

Do you have any advantage in either the quality, price, or consistency of your water, salt, vinegar or seeds? In 99.9% of cases the answer is "no" and procuring ready-mixed mustard is more convenient, cheaper, less messy and time-saving.

Tade0 5y ago
The advantage of home-made food is that you have control over the ingredients. Store bought mustard and mayonnaise contain such surprising ingredients like e.g. sugar or copious amounts of salt.
- timcederman 5y ago
  What store bought mustard contains sugar? I'm not aware of any, and if there are, they aren't common. Also a little bit of sugar in mayonnaise is fine - in the US it usually relatively trace amounts to the most commonly sold ones in the Commonwealth.
- bshimmin 5y ago
  While I broadly agree with this, I would say that my own attempts at making mint sauce were fairly disappointing in comparison with shop-bought - Colman's mint sauce is an awful lot nicer than anything I was able to make, and (though I've never tried to make it) I bet their wonderful mustard is too. You will probably also not be able to make at home anything all that similar to the mayonnaise you buy in a shop, though what you can make at home will almost certainly be equally as nice (my children were confused by the yellowish colour of home-made mayonnaise, which is sort of backwards since the confusing thing ought to be why shop-bought mayonnaise is white!).
- JasonFruit 5y ago
  Another advantage is that making your own x from scratch is fun and satisfying. Mayonnaise, mustard, soda, barbecue sauce, gravlax, liver sausage — it's fun to see the things people buy ready-made, and know you have the knowledge and ability to do it yourself. Sometimes it's enough better to be worth the effort; sometimes, like catsup, you find that the store-bought is better — but you still have the fun of doing it and the satisfaction of knowing for sure.

Tade0 5y ago

The advantage of home-made food is that you have control over the ingredients. Store bought mustard and mayonnaise contain such surprising ingredients like e.g. sugar or copious amounts of salt.

timcederman 5y ago
What store bought mustard contains sugar? I'm not aware of any, and if there are, they aren't common. Also a little bit of sugar in mayonnaise is fine - in the US it usually relatively trace amounts to the most commonly sold ones in the Commonwealth.
bshimmin 5y ago
While I broadly agree with this, I would say that my own attempts at making mint sauce were fairly disappointing in comparison with shop-bought - Colman's mint sauce is an awful lot nicer than anything I was able to make, and (though I've never tried to make it) I bet their wonderful mustard is too. You will probably also not be able to make at home anything all that similar to the mayonnaise you buy in a shop, though what you can make at home will almost certainly be equally as nice (my children were confused by the yellowish colour of home-made mayonnaise, which is sort of backwards since the confusing thing ought to be why shop-bought mayonnaise is white!).
JasonFruit 5y ago
Another advantage is that making your own x from scratch is fun and satisfying. Mayonnaise, mustard, soda, barbecue sauce, gravlax, liver sausage — it's fun to see the things people buy ready-made, and know you have the knowledge and ability to do it yourself. Sometimes it's enough better to be worth the effort; sometimes, like catsup, you find that the store-bought is better — but you still have the fun of doing it and the satisfaction of knowing for sure.