Cracking eggs

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Has anybody here made any kind of eggs by themselves before? Scrambled, fried, poached, etc. Well, on Tuesday, 30 after noon, I made myself fried eggs, although Mom did half the work because I was a little nervous. I did pretty well, aside from breaking the yolk from one of the eggs I cracked.

Here's my question though: When you guys crack eggs, is there a special trick to cracking it without breaking the yolk? My mom and i did agree on the fact that it's not really a big deal because they're onloy eggs, but I am curious. Thank you.

Crack them firmly on the side of a pan but if you don't hit them hard enough you will have to do it again and they may mash up a bit.

Also if you hit them too hard you may go right through to the yolk and it will break as well as the shell.

You need to try it until you get one right and then remember how hard you hit it on the side of the pan; that way you will be able to do it most times (but you will still make mistakes occasionally)

Not only do I cook my own eggs but I also pick them up fresh from my hens who live at the bottom of my garden.

practice, my friend, practice.
I do it one-handed which I actually find easier... and it looks cool.

There is no specific technique - or, rather, there are many. The easiest one is to lightly tap the side of the egg on a thin surface, say the side of the pan, to break the shell but not split the egg open. Keep tapping around until you've the start of a circle going round the middle of the egg. It should now be possible to pull the two halves up and away from each other, close to the pan. The yolk should be fine, though this may need a little practice.

(With practice, you'll find a single tap and twisting the egg with one hand will be sufficient.)

Some people put a tiny hole in the yolk when the egg is about half-done. Whether this has any benefits or not is unclear.

(When boiling an egg, use a pin to make a tiny hole at the base of the egg. This is to prevent the pressure within the egg fracturing the shell. Whether it works or not is debatable, but it doesn't do any harm so long as you only go through the shell and not into the contents of the egg.)

I lived on eggs for years because they are cheap protein,filling and tasty when seasoned.The way I was taught was to crack the egg on the side of a bowl...and open it over the bowl.If you get some egg shell in it,you take the shell and dip it in where the shell piece is and it acts as sort of a magent to fish out the shell piece.(I cant stand biting into even a small crunchy piece of shell fragment....yuck,so I always do it over a clear glass bowl that allows me to check for any possible fragments.)

How hard to crack and egg just takes practice.Ask your mom to let you crack and eggs she might be using for baking and such,so you can get the feel of it.Sometimes it is hard because some shells are thicker then others and how much pressure you need to crack the shell depends on the thickness of the shell.(How is that for aspie obsession,ha).I will look in my "Hints from Heloise" books to see if she has any more advice....I love that lady. Have fun learning how to cook.It's one of the more important skills in my opinion because humans are allows going to eat and knowing how to do it yourself will save you from being forced to live on processed(canned and frozen foods)or expensive restuarant food.Knowledge IS power.

Just be glad you're not Jewish.

There's this thing in Jewish law that says consuming anything with blood in it is forbidden, that's why kosher meat is killed by slitting the throat. I once saw a story about a Jewish baker and the guy was cracking hundreds of eggs to prepare a load of pastry. He had to crack the egg into a glass, examine the contents VERY carefully to make sure the egg was not fertilised, then if it was OK tip it into a big bowl with all the others. If one fertilised egg got into the bowl by mistake then the whole lot would be thrown away.

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I'm reading a book right now that talks about a guy who "candels eggs" to look for an blood clots.It was a specialty that might have been a good job for an aspie,detailed and focused....i(f blood clots are you area of interest,lol.)

You'll get it...if I remember right I kept putting my thumb through them and breaking the yolk at first when I tried to get them apart.

Like anything else it just takes practice...if your mom makes a cake or any recipes that call for eggs let her have you crack them for her...then it doesn't matter at all if you break the yolks, but you'll get the hang of it.

almost every time I've tried to crack an egg, I pull the egg shell apart, and the sharp egg shell cracks split the yolk.

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There's no special trick I can think of. You make sure to hit it firm enough to get a good crack so you can easily open it up without getting shell all over the place. So you have to hit it hard, but not so hard that the yolk breaks obviously. This means that you hit it with good speed and force to crack it pretty well, but try to make the break superficial. A good hard, but shallow whack should do it.

I wouldn't put too much thought into it. It's just like anything else you learn to do. You learn by practicing and doing. You'll find out on your own what works and what doesn't.

On a side note, I eat eggs almost every morning. I have two poached eggs. Delicious! A week or two ago, I opened an egg that had two yolks! Yep, who knew chicken period could taste so good?

i can only make scambled eggs. i cant make the ones with the yokes because i cant flip them, its annoying since scambled eggs is my second favorite type of eggs

I like making sunny-side up eggs. I'm probably going to make a couple in an hour for breakfast! As for the egg cracking, I just crack them slightly gently on the side of the pan or the edge of the counter.

It helps if your eggs are really fresh, then the yolks are less likely to break.

I've just cracked four eggs and made myself scrambled eggs on toast (I'm sure you all needed to know that LOL)