How to Separate Egg Yolks (way cool!)

[Lasher]

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. Eggsellent!

[cbayer]

2. Ok, that is just too cool.

I am definitely going to try that.

[Lasher]

3. I'm gonna think up a recipe just so I can use the method.

Souffle for brunch, perhaps. I haven't done that in awhile. I'll need to get some extra fresh locally produced eggs because the whites whip up so much better.

[elleng]

5. MIGHT do that,

daughter has chickens who will probably begin producing in the spring, but she's due to have a baby in July, so not sure how her and my time will be spent!!!

Also saw her posting a 'pinterest' about home-made baby food, so I wonder how much time she'll be spending with her chickens!!!

[Lasher]

6. I am tempted to raise a garden again this spring.

I haven't done that for 3 years because an injury took all the wind out of my sails. But I'm slowly coming back and just might have the energy to pull it off this year, we'll see.

[elleng]

9. 'Break a leg,' Lasher.

[Lasher]

16. Ha ha ha, thanks Elleng!

[NJCher]

22. easy start

Maybe start with a container garden?

I've been exending my garden (about a dozen raised beds) by using containers and find they can be quite productive


Cher

[Lasher]

23. That's a good idea, thanks.

I've thought about raised beds but I've never tried them.

[cbayer]

10. One of the things that has been difficult to adjust here is

that they don't refrigerate their eggs at all.

And they are fine.

That and the unrefrigerated milk took multiple tests before I trusted it, but it's all good.

[pinto]

11. Eggs, kept cool, are good for a long while, iirc. I had laying hens. We rinsed them in cold water.

The eggs, not the hens...And set aside in a colander, in a cool spot. Stored fine.

[cbayer]

12. Store bought eggs in the US are treated in such a way that the shells are porous.

That's why they have to be refrigerated.

Fresh eggs aren't porous.

I've heard that if you put vaseline on US eggs, they can also be kept outside the fridge.

I have this picture of you rinsing the chickens in cold water.

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. We do not wash our eggs until we use them.

they have a protective coating, which is washed off in store eggs.
We do, however, keep ours in the fridge, mostly because of counter space issues.
When I give away eggs, I lightly wipe them if needed.
I have noticed that the eggs last for a couple of weeks, no change in quality.

[elleng]

4. Very cool!

[Suich]

7. Works like a charm!

I'm going to go show my next-door neighbor, right now!

[pinto]

8. Ha. +1

[SeattleVet]

14. Some bottles work better than others.

We've been separating eggs like this for a couple of years now, and found that the very thin 'crinkly' cheap water-type bottles don't usually work too well (doesn't always suck the egg into the neck). Any bottle with a little ridge of plastic at the top of the next from the molding process tends to break the yolk about 50% of the time. (Run your finger around the top and just indies the top of the neck to make sure it's smooth.)

Some Coke-type bottles with an 'interrupted' thread also will periodically break the yolk. It takes a little practice, but once you get the technique down you can do a bunch in a short time.

Also note that cracking the egg on the edge of the bowl or using a knife or fork handle will result in more bits of the broken shell getting mixed in with your egg. The best way to avoid this is to sharply crack the egg on the flat surface of the cutting board/table next to the bowl. Here again a little practice will give you the right amount of force you need to crack without smashing, but once you get it you'll love not having to pick out little bits of shell!

[Lasher]

15. OK I'm not surprised some plastic bottles work better than others.

So what type of bottle would you recommend for this process?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

24. The 24 oz Diet Pepsi has always worked for me.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

17. I regularly crack my eggs on the rim of a bowl. I almost never get shell in it

When I tried cracking an egg on a flat surface, I got shell in the egg.

[NastyRiffraff]

18. Nice!

Now if only I could learn to whip egg whites!

[Lasher]

19. I shared that secret upthread.

Get extra fresh locally produced eggs. That's the secret.

[passiveporcupine]

20. I found a quick way tonight

I set a bag of groceries on the hood of my car. It tipped over. The top item was an 18 egg carton. The carton fell and opened and all the eggs rolled out on the gravel and rocks. My dogs separated the eggs and the yolks very quickly!

[Aldo Leopold]

21. Brilliant!

[santroy79]

25. pretty cool but why Separate Egg Yolks ???

[Lasher]

26. Because they won't stop talking in class?

Sorry. I was just yolking.

[Auggie]

27. Yeah, but then you have to clean the bottle

[Viva_La_Revolution]

28. and the dishes..

I just tip the yolk from one half to the other. the white spills out and leaves the yolk.

[wryter2000]

29. I've been using the Jacques Pepin method

Crack the egg and let it rest in your hand between slightly separated fingers. The white goes through your fingers, leaving the yolk in your hand. It does a better job of getting all the white away from the yolk than the shell-to-shell method.

This looks cool if you have the right kind of bottle.