I’m sad that I missed posting this on the 4th
Maybe American ant size. Costco sells a lovely 1.9L jar.
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.
Definitely a local thing, I’ve never heard of it, and I’m a born and raised bowl licker.
That makes sense!
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.
I found a 128 ounce (3.758 litre) jar at Walmart.
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!
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.
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.
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.
those are for “restaurants”
In the way a family size is for a “family”
Hell yeah, save by buying a 4-pack.
That seems kind of expensive. The Costco 64oz variety is often on sale for <$10.
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
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.
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.
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.
That’s nothing compared to Slavic-sized!
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.
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.
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.
They’re not lieing…
this is literally the first thing that comes up if you search mayonaise in the US.Restaurants use a 10 gallon bucket (37.8 liters).
So does my homemade mayo shower.
Why did you DIY? I thought those came standard…
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. )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.
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?
90%
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.
Nearly. The exceptions would be for pasta sauce, pickled or fermented things. An even some of those are plastic.
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.
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.
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.
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. 😀
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.
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’…
Ain’t no folks enjoy a good ol’ mayo slip’n’slide no more
Eh, I think the overall size is about the same, but the number of people is reducing.
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.
Maybe if you’re Mormon or bathing in it
¿Por que no los dos?
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?
I think they were exaggerating for comedic effect. I hope…
They are exaggerating. The foodservice packs top out at 10 gallons/37.85 liters as it becomes too heavy.
One glass? Do you want to get dehydrated?
For a family on a diet maybe
That MIGHT last my wife a single week.
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.
600 grams?
You could make maybe two sandwiches with that.
To be fair you could make three grilled cheese sammiches with that
Found the american!
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…
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.
I will always approve of adding garlic. 😀
Thanks for the recipe!
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.
$5, it would cost me more than that just to get the eggs to make it.
It’s also from 6 years ago…
Ahhh
I think the Costco size is 1.15L can check when I get home
The one in the picture is 1.9L.
Real American Mayonaise , nearly 2 litres each, comes in a 2 pack…
That is for restaurants lol don’t worry
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.
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…
Ridiculous excess. Probably also has three times the ingredients.
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 :)
The bigger a container I buy, fewer resources are wasted on packaging and transport
Wow, this made me realize I haven’t seen mayo in a glass jar in years.
I picked up one last month. Organic. Hated it…
Same.
I’ve been loving Kewpie squeeze bottles and Truff mayo.
Avocado mayo comes in a glass jar in my area.
Well Finland has the saying “Everything is big in America”
…good and the bad, triumphs and fuck-ups.
To be honest, I think all Finland did was translating that saying to Finnish lol
Everything is bigger
I had to look it up because I hardly ever actually buy mayonnaise, but I’ve walked down the mayonnaise aisle at the supermarket… What’s funny is that your 600g “50% more: American size” is actually a tweener size here.
The standard small jar here is 15 Floz (about 400g; we sell mayo by volume here apparently). The standard large jar is double that. And of course we have less common, but not uncommon, 48 Floz for “family size” and larger still in bulk.
We do have containers that are between or smaller, but the those are usually specialty containers (mainly squeeze bottles), specialty types (such as avocado oil based or flavored/blends), or just less common in general.
1.3L “family size”… Family size what? Pool?
Yes. Mayo is a key ingredient in so many picnic dishes. Dishes that people regularly prep for BIG family gatherings where everyone brings home leftovers. Potato salad, coleslaw, and pasta salads made by the gallon. Sure, some people eat way too much, but sharing and sharing big is kind of the whole point. If someone shared food with you in a park, you’re family now and will be expected to bring your weight in your other family’s traditional recipe of something next time.
Sauces, too. You want a fat as a base in many of them, and mayo is a pretty good way to get it.
When I worked in foodservice, we bought it by the gallon. People would ask for it as a dressing on their salads. Gross.
Typical South Eastern 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.
That’s like a week’s worth at best.
For a baby maybe
Woah woah, it’s American size, not Wisconsin sized. I based my estimate on the usage of average Americans, not outlier groups.
Mayo tanker truck waiting patiently for the BBQ sauce and Pepto Bismol tanker trucks to depart…
As someone who lives in Utah, there better be a ketchup truck pulling up soon because I have a hankering for fry sauce!
Finland is in the top 10 of the most mayo consuming countries, so they could just as well call it “save a trip” size.
