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Egg salad: 3 creator recipes compared

Most use dijon mustard, red onion and paprika. Some add tuna or avocado.

Start with Cal Reynolds’s versionSee all 3 side by side

Times are estimated preparation and cooking; chilling or resting is extra. Updated 28 October 2026.

Go-To Egg Salad by Cal Reynolds, a frame from the Instagram video

Make this one first.

We put the most-saved version first: Cal Reynolds’s. A creamy egg salad that combines the richness of avocado mayo with tangy dijon mustard, hot sauce, and crunchy pickles. Perfect for a satisfying lunch or snack and keeps well in the refrigerator for several days.

Go-To Egg Salad from Cal Reynolds’s Instagram video

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Go-To Egg Salad

Recipe from Cal Reynolds, from their Instagram videoWritten down by ReelsMeals from the caption and voiceover.

  • 27 min
  • Serves 4
  • 11 ingredients

The only one of the 3 with hard boiled eggs, avocado mayo, hot sauce and bread and butter pickle juice.

Ingredients

  • 8hard boiled eggs
  • 1/3 cupavocado mayo
  • 1 1/2 tbspdijon mustard
  • 1 tbsphot sauce
  • 1 tbspbread & butter pickle juice
  • 1/3 cupbread & butter pickles
  • 1/3 cupred onion
  • to tastesalt
  • to tastepepper
  • to tastegarlic powder
  • to tastepaprika

How it goes

  1. Place the eggs in a pot, cover with water so the water is about 2 inches above the eggs, bring to a rolling boil, cover the pot, turn off the heat, and let sit for 12 minutes; then transfer the eggs to an ice water bath to cool.

  2. Peel the cooled eggs, cut them in half, remove the yolks, and mash the yolks in a bowl. Add avocado mayo, dijon mustard, hot sauce, and pickle juice, mixing until smooth.

  3. Dice the egg whites, red onion, and bread & butter pickles. Add the diced whites and vegetables to the bowl, then season with salt, pepper, garlic powder, and paprika to taste. Mix until well combined and adjust seasoning as needed.

  4. Serve the egg salad as desired—on bread, in lettuce wraps, or on its own—and enjoy.

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From each creator’s recipe as we saved it. Time is the estimated preparation and cooking time; chilling is extra where they say so. Ingredient counts include everything on the list.

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3 egg salad recipes compared by estimated time, servings, ingredients, method and what only that version uses. Cal Reynolds’s, the one to make first, is highlighted.
VersionTime (est.)ServesIngredientsMethodOnly this one uses
Go-To Egg SaladCal Reynolds · make this one first27 min411Not clear from the stepshard boiled eggs, avocado mayo, hot sauce and bread and butter pickle juice
High Protein Tuna Egg SaladJames Bok25 min29Simmeredtuna, celery, spring onion and dill pickle
Avocado Egg SaladAbdullah's Meditrranean Kitchen25 min411Not clear from the stepsavocado, mayonnaise, lemon juice and parsley

What they share.

  • All 3use garlic.
  • 2 of 3use dijon mustard. Abdullah's Meditrranean Kitchen’s version leaves it out.
  • 2 of 3use red onion. James Bok’s version leaves it out.
  • 2 of 3use paprika. James Bok’s version leaves it out.
  • 2 of 3use egg. Cal Reynolds’s version leaves it out.

Counted from each version’s ingredient list. Salt, pepper, oil and water are left out, and names are matched loosely, so chicken thighs and chicken legs both count as chicken.

Where they differ.

  • How they cook it

    Only James Bok simmers, poaches or braises.

  • Something only one of them uses

    Cal Reynolds is the only one to use hard boiled eggs, avocado mayo, hot sauce and bread and butter pickle juice. James Bok is the only one to use tuna, celery, spring onion and dill pickle. Abdullah's Meditrranean Kitchen is the only one to use avocado, mayonnaise, lemon juice and parsley.

All 3, with their videos.

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How this comparison works.

Every recipe here comes from a creator’s own video. ReelsMeals writes it down from the caption and the voiceover, and publishes it with the creator named and the original linked. When three or more versions of a dish from at least two creators are saved, the dish gets a page like this one. Reposts and the same video saved twice count once.

Times and servings come from the saved recipe cards and may be estimated. Ingredient names are matched loosely, so chicken thighs and chicken legs both count as chicken. We don’t rank them by taste: the version shown first is the one ReelsMeals cooks have saved most. Last updated 28 October 2026.

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