How do I replicate tuna mayo from shops?

[MidnightPomegranite]

So my 3 and 4 year scorn the perfectly normal tuna mayo and sweetcorn I make for baked potatoes or sandwiches. They wolf down tuna sandwiches at school and on a recent journey I bought a boots sandwich - again wolfed down! Where am I going wrong? Currently I use tuna , erm mayo (not too much) and cooked frozen sweetcorn.

Thank you!

Add more mayo.

I always add a bit of salad cream. Gives it that shop-bought tang.

I would try tinned sweetcorn and a tiny bit of black pepper

A splash of vinegar, salt, pepper, mayo. Years ago when I worked in a sandwich shop, that was the recipe. The vinegar makes all the difference.

Lots of mayo and a touch water to thin it down and well Mashed

Tinned sweetcorn tuna flakes in oil, more mayo then fridge overnight

Pepper and vinegar are your missing ingredients

I think tuna changes flavour slightly when made in advance. I used to love tuna sandwiches on school trips and picnics etc, where they'd been made and wrapped in the morning, hours before eating.

So maybe it's that?

I prefer with salad cream though myself.

They add Sugar and salt

Salt and vinegar. Black pepper. Dash of tabasco for me. X

Cheapest possible mayonnaise and water + batter around in a mixer until it's at the consistency of single cream, add bashed up stale sweetcorn that's dried out from a tin (the version with as much added sugar as possible), stale bread and then let it sit for 36 hours wrapped in plastic.

Definitely salad cream mixed in with the mayo.

Live update! The vinegar and mash it for longer than you think you need to definitely helped. The kids ate most of it too. I wonder if salad cream is more vinegary, hence some preferring it , I’ll try that out another time . Thanks

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I’d give tuna a swerve. The mercury levels are too high - the regulatory level is set much higher than for other fish because of pressure from the industry rather than being guided by human health needs. And a recent watchdog report found levels of mercury well in excess of the regulations. Up to x13 times in the worst case,

That was in the EU: I don’t believe Brexit has been made the standards more stringent.

I really would rethink giving that particular fish to small children - and definitely not look for ways to add more salt and additives to make it as palatable as the shop version.

Add ketchup

I think this is it. British/American mayo is sugary and gross, but the French stuff often has mustard in and a slight vinegariness that cuts through the fat. I think shops have a secret source of nice mayo that isn't the sweet Hellmans crap they put out on the shelves!

IMO fridge overnight is key, I find if the mix has been in the fridge it tastes so much more like a shop bought filling

Came on to say something similar. Was gonna say blend it. 😩

It looks so unappetising in most supermarket and cafe sandwiches. Like cat sick. Sorry.

Your usual version sounds much nicer OP! Kids, eh!

But I'd agree with lots of mashing, more runny than you think it should be, maybe chop the seeetcorn slightly as there seems to be little in it, add a little salad cream and try adding more to the cheap mayo each time before your DC deem it the perfect ratio of mayo: salad cream. Some are quite acidic/peppery but I would have thought the peppery taste would put off most kids...

Maybe have a look at a shop bought filling online and see what's in it? The M&S one has tuna, mayo sweetcorn, black pepper and er xanthan gum. 😂