jay wrote:

Does anyone have some tips that may help or a recipe that they are proud of
that is not German style?

Without checking all those recipes you might have come across and, thus,
not knowing how common these ingredients are, I say the potato salads
I've liked the best have included eggs, onions, celery seed and some
mustard (powdered or out of a jar) & apple cider vinegar to cut the
sweetness of the mayo (among other things, of course). Also, potato
salad always tastes better a day or so after it's made, so all the
ingredients can blend together and to allow the potatoes to absorb those
flavors.

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Without checking all those recipes you might have come across and, thus,
not knowing how common these ingredients are, I say the potato salads
I've liked the best have included eggs, onions, celery seed and some
mustard (powdered or out of a jar) & apple cider vinegar to cut the
sweetness of the mayo (among other things, of course). Also, potato
salad always tastes better a day or so after it's made, so all the
ingredients can blend together and to allow the potatoes to absorb those
flavors.

If your mayo is "sweet" you're using the wrong mayo, lol.
A good Hellmanns (Best Food) will improve your salad.
And NO eggs in mine, please. Blech! No pickle relish in mine, either.
I always add diced celery, and use celery seed in the dressing or
sprinkled on top.

Goomba38 wrote:

wrote:

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some mustard (powdered or out of a jar) & apple cider vinegar to cut
the sweetness of the mayo

If your mayo is "sweet" you're using the wrong mayo, lol.
A good Hellmanns (Best Food) will improve your salad.

I use Hellman's (one of the ingredients of which is sugar). "Sweet", of
course, is in the tongue of the taste and relative- I've certainly
tasted a lot of potato salads that are "sweet", and lack (to my taste)
any vinegar or mustard tartness.

And NO eggs in mine, please.

You mean the third ingredient of Hellman's ("whole eggs and egg yolks")?

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I use Hellman's (one of the ingredients of which is sugar). "Sweet", of
course, is in the tongue of the taste and relative- I've certainly tasted
a lot of potato salads that are "sweet", and lack (to my taste) any
vinegar or mustard tartness.

I have to have the pickle relish, and the minced celery.
And the hard boiled egg, onion, mayo, mustard. Celery salt.

nancy