Here's how to avoid bitterness when making mayonnaise with olive oil.
as an alternate option, but that, too, yielded a very bitter-tasting mayonnaise, which led me to conclude there was some quality these two oils shared that produced the same effect.The most obvious question to ask is: Where is the bitter taste coming from? One possibility is the presence of free fatty acids in olive oil, which, depending on the type of fatty acid, can taste bitter and even pungent.
First, since olive oil isn’t particularly bitter on its own, but will produce a bitter mayonnaise, this implies that polyphenols like oleuropein present in olive oil might also be soluble in water. One of the key criteria for a substance to act as a tastant, as defined by scientists, is that the substance should dissolve in water and interact with our taste receptors.
Based on these observations, it occurred to me that by using some kind of solvent I might be able to extract the polyphenols out of the oil. I then looked up to see if any research had been performed on polyphenols in olive oil and their solubility. I tried a few different things, like using clear vodka—alcohol is often a wonderful solvent for extracting substances from oil —but in my experiments at home, the mayonnaise made from alcohol-treated olive oil still tasted bitter.
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