# Sterilizing Mayonnaise? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [March 24, 2021, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sterilizing-mayonnaise/938568 "2021-03-24T08:50:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sterilizing-mayonnaise/938568/10 "2021-03-24T13:32:59Z")
> [@Jim\_B](#): > > As I posted in the past, I have this really nice, really old recipe for mayonnaise from my grandmother. I tried in vain to find the thread that I posted on this message board. I bet you mean this one: > [@Really Old, Really Good Recipes...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-old-really-good-recipes/727968): > > Yeah, my paternal grandmother was by all accounts an exceptional cook. Strange story: I don’t remember her cooking, because I was just beginning to realize food had to come from some place. She died when I was 5. And prior to that, food was just something I took for granted, I guess. Weird, no? Anyways, when my grandfather went to the retirement home some years back, I was told as we were cleaning out his house, that I could take whatever I wanted. That is when I found in an old chest upstairs,… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sterilizing-mayonnaise/938568)._