It is believed that water and oil do not mix. So how is it possible to create a salad dressing from these ingredients? The secret is to add an additional ingredient to them – an emulsifier (surfactant).
Mustard and garlic can be used as emulsifiers. Therefore, if you want to make a salad dressing from vinegar and oil, add enough garlic and mustard to them.
Additionally, store-bought salad dressings contain naturally occurring emulsifying carbohydrates.
If we talk about mayonnaise, it is an emulsion of oil in water, but the main emulsifier here is egg yolk. Egg yolk contains long phospholipid molecules that can interact with both the fat layer and water. However, when heated, mayonnaise separates.
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