In my other life I made ketchup/bbq sauce/salad dressing, the shelf life was good. Mustard wasn't cost effective since it was dirt cheap at the store.
Although I like home made mayo, it was expensive to make (not your problem in making it @roamer_1 ) but as you said the shelf life is short.
I don't know that it would freeze well. But I wonder if you could cut a recipe by a 4th? Or even a 1/2. I'd have to dig thru my recipes to see if that could be done.
If you freeze it and it turns out ok...please let me know.
You know
@berdie , most folks that have never had home made mayo would be shocked at the bright yellow color... Might find it off-putting just for that. But it tastes SO GOOD!
I will let you know about the freezing if I do.
Cutting it down is rough, because it takes a certain amount of body to get it to whippin... I think mine was four yolks, a teaspoon of salt, get it whippin, and then start drizzling oil into it... It really does not start getting body until at least half the oil is in it, and to get a 'hard peak', which is about what is called for, I don't think you could make a pint. It would likely be runny.
BUT, that was before I had a bullet mixer... That little devil is hell on wheels for whippin. And I might ought to try a pint with that. I will get some olive oil next time to the store and give it a whirl.
However, a while back,
@Bigun twisted my arm during a conversation about the various mayos... I am pretty standard a Miracle Whip guy, though not so much that Hellman's is never to be found... They are more or less interchangeable... Though like I said, Bigun twisted my arm and made me go out and buy some Dukes. SO I STILL have two squeeze bottles of Dukes to get through, And this last can of Miracle Whip I just got, too...
I got the Miracle Whip for my world famous Crap Salad - Your standard celery and onion and mustard/mayo base that you'd use in any Potato salad starter... Only this is macaroni and imitation crab (Hence 'crap' salad)... We have a gathering coming on, and it has been requested. I didn't want to mess with the perfection of it for a gathering, so I went to my stand-by.
Though Bigun may have a point.