Deviled Eggs Lab · Decision tree
Find your deviled egg
Two questions sort all 379 recipes into 4 groups. Each question is about one of the ingredients recipes disagree on most, and splits the recipes in front of it at their own median, so each answer keeps about half of them. Every group ends with its median recipe in grams and the real recipes nearest it.
The questions
Question 1
More mustard than most, or less?
Prepared mustard, yellow or Dijon, is the sharpness behind the yolk: about a teaspoon for six eggs where it is used. Half of recipes use none.
All 379 recipes: median 0.3 g per egg, 2 g per 6 eggs; middle half 0 g to 0.8 g; 49% use none.
Question 2
More mayonnaise or oil than most, or less?
Most of the filling after the yolk: it loosens the mashed yolks into something pipeable and carries the richness. Many French and Spanish recipes make their own mayonnaise, so its oil counts here too.
All 379 recipes: median 6.1 g per egg, 37 g per 6 eggs; middle half 2.6 g to 9.2 g; 20% use none.
Asked within each answer to question 1, split at the median of the recipes that gave it.
The key
Read left to right: pick an answer to question 1, then one of the answers beside it for question 2, and so on to a group. Each cell gives the answer, its bound in grams per egg, and how many recipes give it.
The 4 groups
Each median recipe is the median of every ingredient over the group's recipes, scaled to 300 g, 6 eggs, beside the typical batch of all 379. Bold rows are the ingredients the questions asked about.
Group A · 90 recipes · 23% of all
More mustard and more mayonnaise or oil
Mustard 0.3 g or more and mayonnaise or oil over 6.1 g per egg.
| At 6 eggs | Group A | All |
|---|---|---|
| Eggs | 300 g | 300 g |
| Mayonnaise or oil | 55 gabout 1/4 cup | 37 g |
| Dairy or avocado | none | none |
| Mustard | 5 gabout 1 tsp | 2 g |
| Vinegar or juice | none | none |
| Pickles and relish | none | none |
| Meat or fish | none | none |
| Salt | none | none |
Nearest the middle of group A
Closest to the group's median on every ingredient at once.
- Classic Deviled Eggs · delish.commustard 0.8 g · mayonnaise or oil 9.2 g
- Deviled Eggs Recipe · lecremedelacrumb.commustard 0.8 g · mayonnaise or oil 9.2 g
- Kewpie Deviled Eggs · robinmillercooks.commustard 0.8 g · mayonnaise or oil 9.2 g
- Œufs farcis croustillants · troisfoisparjour.commustard 0.7 g · mayonnaise or oil 7.9 g
- Gevulde eitjes op 3 manieren - Culy · culy.nlmustard 0.6 g · mayonnaise or oil 6.9 g
Group B · 100 recipes · 26% of all
More mustard and less mayonnaise or oil
Mustard 0.3 g or more and mayonnaise or oil 6.1 g or less per egg. 23 of the 100 use no mayonnaise or oil.
| At 6 eggs | Group B | All |
|---|---|---|
| Eggs | 300 g | 300 g |
| Mayonnaise or oil | 25 gabout 2 tbsp | 37 g |
| Dairy or avocado | none | none |
| Mustard | 7 gabout 1 1/3 tsp | 2 g |
| Vinegar or juice | none | none |
| Pickles and relish | none | none |
| Meat or fish | none | none |
| Salt | none | none |
Nearest the middle of group B
Closest to the group's median on every ingredient at once.
- Gevulde eieren met parmaham en granaatappel · laurasbakery.nlmustard 1.3 g · mayonnaise or oil 4.6 g
- Klassische gefüllte Eier - Deviled Eggs · klaraida.demustard 1.3 g · mayonnaise or oil 4.6 g
- Ranch Deviled Eggs · thestayathomechef.commustard 1.3 g · mayonnaise or oil 4.6 g
- Russische Eier klassisch lecker · zimtliebe.demustard 1.3 g · mayonnaise or oil 3.5 g
- Deviled Egg Chicks · spendwithpennies.commustard 1.3 g · mayonnaise or oil 6.1 g
Group C · 94 recipes · 24% of all
Little or no mustard and more mayonnaise or oil
Mustard under 0.3 g and mayonnaise or oil over 4.6 g per egg. 92 of the 94 use no mustard.
| At 6 eggs | Group C | All |
|---|---|---|
| Eggs | 300 g | 300 g |
| Mayonnaise or oil | 49 gabout 1/4 cup | 37 g |
| Dairy or avocado | none | none |
| Mustard | none | 2 g |
| Vinegar or juice | none | none |
| Pickles and relish | none | none |
| Meat or fish | 2 g | none |
| Salt | none | none |
Nearest the middle of group C
Closest to the group's median on every ingredient at once.
- Uova ripiene di spinaci · misya.infomustard 0 g · mayonnaise or oil 9.2 g
- Œuf mimosa · cuisineaz.commustard 0 g · mayonnaise or oil 6.9 g
- Œufs farcis à l’avocat & à la coriandre · troisfoisparjour.commustard 0 g · mayonnaise or oil 6.9 g
- Oeufs mimosa · cuisineaz.commustard 0 g · mayonnaise or oil 6.9 g
- Oeufs mimosa aux épices : la meilleure recette · marmiton.orgmustard 0 g · mayonnaise or oil 6.9 g
Group D · 95 recipes · 25% of all
Little or no mustard and little or no mayonnaise or oil
Mustard under 0.3 g and mayonnaise or oil 4.6 g or less per egg. 95 of the 95 use no mustard. 54 of the 95 use no mayonnaise or oil.
| At 6 eggs | Group D | All |
|---|---|---|
| Eggs | 300 g | 300 g |
| Mayonnaise or oil | none | 37 g |
| Dairy or avocado | 31 gabout 2 tbsp | none |
| Mustard | none | 2 g |
| Vinegar or juice | none | none |
| Pickles and relish | none | none |
| Meat or fish | none | none |
| Salt | none | none |
Nearest the middle of group D
Closest to the group's median on every ingredient at once.
- Oeufs farcis au four à l'ail et au persil : la meilleure recette · marmiton.orgmustard 0 g · mayonnaise or oil 0 g
- Oeufs mimosa revisités · cuisineaz.commustard 0 g · mayonnaise or oil 0 g
- Oeufs farcis : la meilleure recette · marmiton.orgmustard 0 g · mayonnaise or oil 0 g
- Œufs farcis aux tomates séchées & au basilic · troisfoisparjour.commustard 0 g · mayonnaise or oil 0 g
- Oeufs farcis · cuisineaz.commustard 0 g · mayonnaise or oil 0 g
How the questions are chosen
Each ingredient is ranked by how much recipes disagree on it: the width of the middle half of recipes (25th to 75th percentile) divided by the median, less 4% for each place it sits down this lab's list of ingredients, so the ones that define the dish win near ties. For deviled eggs the order is mustard (2.67) and mayonnaise or oil (1.09), and the first 2 are asked. Salt is never asked about: recipes differ on it mostly by brand and taste. Dairy or avocado, vinegar or juice, pickles and relish and meat or fish are left out because most recipes use none.
Every split is at the median of the recipes in front of it, rounded to the amount shown. Recipes exactly at the median go to whichever side leaves the two halves more even. No answer may keep fewer than 5 recipes; a group that could not be split further says so.
The recipes listed under each group are the 5 nearest its median on every ingredient at once, each scaled by how much recipes vary on it. Every recipe page links to the original for the method.