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Mayonnaise vs. Cream — What's the Difference?

Mayonnaise vs. Cream — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Mayonnaise and Cream

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Mayonnaise

Mayonnaise, informally mayo, is a thick cold sauce or dressing commonly used in sandwiches, hamburgers, composed salads, and on French fries. It also forms the base for many other sauces, such as tartar sauce, fry sauce, remoulade, salsa golf and rouille.Mayonnaise is an emulsion of oil, egg yolk, and an acid, either vinegar or lemon juice; there are many variants using additional flavorings.

Cream

Cream is a dairy product composed of the higher-fat layer skimmed from the top of milk before homogenization. In un-homogenized milk, the fat, which is less dense, eventually rises to the top.

Mayonnaise

A thick dressing made of beaten raw egg yolk, oil, lemon juice or vinegar, and seasonings.

Cream

The yellowish fatty component of unhomogenized milk that tends to accumulate at the surface.

Mayonnaise

A dressing made from vegetable oil, raw egg yolks, vinegar or lemon juice, and seasoning, used on salads, with french fries, in sandwiches etc.
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Cream

Any of various substances resembling or containing cream
Hand cream.

Mayonnaise

Any cold dish with that dressing as an ingredient.
We served a lobster mayonnaise as a starter.
Hair mayonnaise
Facial mayonnaise

Cream

A pale yellow to yellowish white.

Mayonnaise

(transitive) To cover or season with mayonnaise.

Cream

The choicest part
The cream of the crop.

Mayonnaise

A thick white sauce compounded of raw yolks of eggs beaten up with olive oil to the consistency near to that of a gel, and seasoned with vinegar, pepper, salt, etc.; - used in dressing salads, fish, etc. Also, a dish dressed with this sauce.

Cream

To form cream.

Mayonnaise

Egg yolks and oil and vinegar

Cream

To form foam or froth at the top.

Cream

To have an orgasm.

Cream

To be excited or delighted about something.

Cream

To remove the cream from; skim.

Cream

To take or remove (the best part)
Creamed off the highest-paying jobs for her cronies.

Cream

To take the best part from
Creamed the whole department to form his management team.

Cream

To beat into a creamy consistency.

Cream

To prepare or cook in or with a cream sauce.

Cream

To add cream to.

Cream

To defeat overwhelmingly
Creamed our rival on their home court.

Cream

To damage severely; destroy
My camera got creamed when I dropped it.

Cream

Vulgar Slang To have an orgasm in (one's pants, for example).

Cream

The butterfat/milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
Take 100 ml of cream and 50 grams of sugar…

Cream

The liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it milkfat.

Cream

The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream).

Cream

(tea and coffee) A portion of cream, such as the amount found in a creamer.
I take my coffee with two cream and three sugar.

Cream

A yellowish white colour; the colour of cream.

Cream

(informal) Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.

Cream

(figuratively) The best part of something.
The cream of the crop
The cream of a collection of books or pictures

Cream

(medicine) A viscous aqueous oil/fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment)
You look really sunburnt; you should apply some cream.

Cream

Semen.

Cream

(obsolete) The chrism or consecrated oil used in anointing ceremonies.

Cream

Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.

Cream

To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.
Cream the vegetables with the olive oil, flour, salt and water mixture.

Cream

To turn a yellowish white colour; to give something the color of cream.

Cream

(slang) To obliterate, to defeat decisively.
We creamed the opposing team!

Cream

To ejaculate used of either gender.

Cream

To ejaculate in (clothing or a bodily orifice).

Cream

To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.

Cream

(transitive) To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.

Cream

To take off the best or choicest part of.

Cream

(transitive) To furnish with, or as if with, cream.

Cream

(intransitive) To gather or form cream.

Cream

The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from which butter is obtained.

Cream

The part of any liquor that rises, and collects on the surface.

Cream

A delicacy of several kinds prepared for the table from cream, etc., or so as to resemble cream.

Cream

A cosmetic; a creamlike medicinal preparation.
In vain she tries her paste and creams,To smooth her skin or hide its seams.

Cream

The best or choicest part of a thing; the quintessence; as, the cream of a jest or story; the cream of a collection of books or pictures.
Welcome, O flower and cream of knights errant.

Cream

To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.

Cream

To take off the best or choicest part of.

Cream

To furnish with, or as with, cream.
Creaming the fragrant cups.

Cream

To form or become covered with cream; to become thick like cream; to assume the appearance of cream; hence, to grow stiff or formal; to mantle.
There are a sort of men whose visagesDo cream and mantle like a standing pool.

Cream

The best people or things in a group;
The cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War

Cream

The part of milk containing the butterfat

Cream

Toiletry consisting of any of various substances resembling cream that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin

Cream

Make creamy by beating;
Cream the butter

Cream

Put on cream, as on one's face or body;
She creams her face every night

Cream

Remove from the surface;
Skim cream from the surface of milk

Cream

Add cream to one's coffee, for example

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