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Oil and vinegar do not mix, which is to say, they are not mutually soluble. When you put the two of these together in one container, you get two separate layers; the vinegar on the bottom and the oil floating on top. So if you would like to have a mixture of oil and vinegar on your salad, you have to shake the bottle first.

Because one is water based and one is oil based so they don't form a combined solution. You have to shake them to form an emulsion of small droplets of oil susoended in the vinegar. If you didn't shake them they would remain as two separate liquids.

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Because most salad dressings are made of oil and spices and herbs and other edible liquids. These ingredients do not like to mix, so when salad dressing is stored, they separate out and settle apart from each other. In order to get the right mix of each you have to shake the bottle so that they mix again before going in your salad.

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Vinegar is polar, oil is not. You must shake so these two substances can mix and form one. When these to substances are mixed they can pour out probably so, you can have a tasty salad.

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Because as it sits, the ingredients can separate with the heavier ingredients going to the bottom of the bottle. Shake the bottle well to combine the ingredients and get the correct texture and taste of the salad dressing.

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because oil and vinegar are separate completly. if u do not shake it, itl come out as only oil or only vinegar, when you shake it you get both out.

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to create an emulsion.

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Why is it necessary to shake oil and vinegar salad dressing before adding it to salad?

Oil and vinegar dressing is a temporary emulsion. When the dressing sits for a while the oil and vinegar separate from each other. If you were to put this on the salad it would taste pretty disgusting because it would be entirely oil. So to avoid this, you shake the dressing and then add it to the salad so that the oil and vinegar is combined and it creates a good flavour.


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Cooking oil is an example of a homogeneous mixture, because it has the same consistancy throughout. There is no need to shake it up before using. Shaking is necessary when the contents of a solution settle at the bottom of a solution, such as in Italian salad dressing.


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Why do people say shake well before using?

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