Grocery shopping with grandma and spotted this. And here I was taught that this shit don’t hold.

by Dragon3076

47 Comments

  1. cheffloyd

    When I was in culinary school, one of my classmates switched out powdered hollandaise for his final product and our Chef couldn’t tell the difference and gave him a full passing grade. Meanwhile I have carpal tunnel now….

    He told her after we graduated and she laughed her ass off.

  2. Left over holindaise is great spread on toast like normal butter.

  3. Glittering_Source189

    Worked a breakfast joint where the hollandaise was just Knorrs brand. Add water and butter. Customers loved it. It tastes nothing like hollandaise but was delicious on a breakfast sandwich.

  4. jabbadarth

    Welcome to modern food science.

    This is probably closer to American cheese than it is hollandaise.

  5. reluctantlyjoining

    Most generic breakfast spots get their hollandaise frozen in a piping bag from sysco 😬

  6. episcoqueer37

    I mean, I make Hollandaise from scratch and can refrigerate it with no problem, then warm in a white trash bain marie. But Melissa’s is kinda shit, if you read the ingredients.

  7. Relevant-Alarm-8716

    I bought this… It was weird. Has a very “off” flavor, like chemicals? I added lemon juice because I couldn’t taste any, but it didn’t help… It’s not good. 

  8. Placidaydream

    Hah, my rep brought me a case of that stuff as a sample and I just shook my head.

    Anyways I took most of them home and have been eating them every now and then. It’s not terrible, but it’s not really Hollandaise either.

  9. galtpunk67

    is there a ‘beurre blanc’ version of this?
    asking for a friend

  10. CaptainExplosions

    Put enough xanthan gum in basically anything and it’ll stay emulsified through a nuclear winter.

  11. Fantastic-Spend4859

    Make your own! It is super easy. Look up the blender method.

  12. istoomycat

    Packaged safely. Get it whenever I find it. Think the store is courting lawsuits? Perfect pairing.

  13. PM-me-spastic-potato

    I’ve only tried one brand of fake holly but the mouth feel of it was disgusting. Wonder if they’re all like that?

  14. DE4DHE4D81

    I remember being shown that Dijon would hold it stable. Certainly not from holland but did hold and was quite tasty. “American cook”

  15. subtxtcan

    I’ve been using packaged, stabilized holly for years but only in spots where it was truly high volume on it, like the diner I’m at now. Did a hotel and made holly for a la carte breakfasts, weekend brunch? Powdered. Any catered breakfasts, most hotels/resorts, breakfast places. If you get real deal hollandaise nowadays, you’re having a very nice breakfast!

  16. Logical-Swim-8506

    It’s marketed as Hollandaise but most of the time the ingredients are Vegetable oil, Vinegar, emulsifier agent, egg yolks and a dairy solid like milk powder or some other abomination. It’s mayo with a dairy additive.
    Pretty sure this would be illegal in France due to their laws on food designations.

  17. Used to work at a place where we made a concentrated version of bearnaise where the yolks were set and cooled it down. Then whenever we needed some we would simmer a small amount of cream and add a spoonful to make bearnaise to order. I know its not supposed to have cream in it but it tasted great

  18. Food corporations have chemicals that we normies don’t have access to.

  19. autoredial

    It’s not hollandais but a shelf stable hollandais flavored gravy. However, it tastes pretty damn good and is what’s served on 95+% of benedicts. When you’re not limited by real ingredients, you can make anything taste good.

  20. tenehemia

    When I moved to Germany, seeing cartons of shelf stable hollandaise definitely weirded me out. I tried all the varieties and a couple were okay-ish. I always wondered if there really wasn’t a market for it that it wouldn’t crossover to US shelves. I feel like someone could be making a killing on that.

  21. chewbachaa

    We used to sous vide hollandaise and put it in a whipped cream dispenser

  22. Illustrious-Path4794

    The reason hollandaise doesn’t hold so great is usually because of the butter, most of the time these store purchased hollandaise sauces are made with vegetable oil instead so it holds better, and there is like a 99% chance this one is the same.

  23. HorrorLettuce379

    Probably some emulsifier doing work.

    Traditional hollandaise split that’s for sure you ain’t tripping.

    It’s called ultra-processed foods.

  24. JaxLunchBox

    The real shit indeed doesn’t hold. Check out r/foodscience or look up gums and stabilizers. Don’t let anyone buy that crap and don’t eat fast/quick service food. It’s terrifying.

  25. TinnieTa21

    Off-topic but wth is up with California and having “cancer and reproductive harm” warnings for almost anything?

    Assuming that warning sign is the same one I often see when shopping online. I see it so often when buying hardware and I’m living in Canada lol.

  26. HarpyCelaeno

    Hahaaa. I had the same thought when I first saw premade Hollandaise.

  27. SmellyPepi

    Im pretty sure irs not “real” hollandaise. Some palmoil or other stuff that keeps it from cracking.

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