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The trick is introducing only a little oil at a time, into the eggyolk...A hand mixer will work ok, but a stick blender would really make short work of it.
1 cup of oil
2-3 eggyolks
1 teaspoon each of vinegar and lemon juice.
Salt to your liking.
Beat eggyolks and vinegar, lemon juice and salt together.
SLOWLY, add the oil.
From my experience, it still looks runny, about 3/4 of the way through the process. Suddenly, it begins to stiffen and peak.
Oh, absolutley nothing like homemade mayo! I use the whip attachment to my stick blender. Works great. You do have to add the oil just a drop or two, whip, drop or two, whip, until you get the emulsion set. You can tell, the mixture will start to thicken a bit and lighten in color. Once it is set, you can just pour the oil in a stream. Heck, if the emulsion is really well established, you can pretty much pour the oil in all at once.
If it breaks, don't panic. Scrape the mayo out of the container you're whipping it in. Wipe it out and put a teaspoon of cold water in. Slowly add the broken mayo as you whip and it should emulsify again. I broke the first couple mayos I made, but now I can whip a half cup up in a few minutes time, whenever I want.
Here's a good post from on mayo from one of my faves:
http://ruhlman.com/2008/05/yolk-lemon-juic.html
I would also recommend his (Michael Ruhlman) book, Ratio. The mayo recipes are in there, but it is a great resourece for the kitchen!
If you think that you can use a handwhip, you may as well go ahead and find a doctor to do rotatorcuff surgery...It is a chore.