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OK, this probably doesn’t belong here, but if not here I don’t know where, (and yes, I’m too embarrassed to post on Facebook or somewhere where people actually know me.)
I make two fried eggs most mornings. And toast. I crack the eggs on the countertop, and more often than not leave some egg goo on the counter, or dripping on the way over to the pan on the stove, which means a messy cleanup. And a cleanup I can’t do right then because the stove is hot.
I’ve tried cracking the eggs on the countertop. One hit. Sometimes not enough. Two hits, almost always enough, but then sometimes shards of shell in the egg when I drop it in the pan. I’ve tried cracking them on an edge, like of the pan or the counter, but that doesn’t work either.
I sometimes see people crack them and pan them with one hand but I cannot figure how that works, as I always have to dig my fingernails in to separate the two halves.
Anyway, simple as it may be, anybody have tips for reliably cracking an egg and getting it to the pan without droozling egg juice all over everything?
Thanks.
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^^I crack the eggs on the countertop, and more often than not leave some egg goo on the counter, or dripping on the way over to the pan on the stove, which means a messy cleanup. And a cleanup I can’t do right then because the stove is hot.^^
You are cracking them too much before carrying them over to the pan.
If the egg is standing upright, the middle of the egg, where it might wear a belt, is the weak point. That is where you crack it. Hit the table top so it side lands squarely against the surface.
Give one sharp tap rather than several gentle taps which shatter it into pieces - you want one larger split. That said, don’t overdo it, either.
Carry it over the pan with this one crack - the egg will be cracked but not "opened" and you dig the fingers in a little to open it at the crack but only when over the pan (or cup etc).
Use your thumbs to press inward and separate the shell, then pour the yolk and white from the shell into a bowl.
Don't crack the egg on the rim of a bowl as this creates small pieces of shell falling into the bowl.
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Give one sharp tap rather than several gentle taps which shatter it into pieces - you want one larger split. That said, don’t overdo it, either.
OK, so I’ve been doing that and it’s an improvement. Not perfect yet, but better.
It does bring to mind the question, how do those people who do it with one hand manage it? Is that like a magician’s dexterity at palming cards or something. As a whim I’ve tried it a couple of times, and the results are TikTok worthy, in a bad way.
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Wrap your ring and little fingers around the bottom half of the egg pressing it against your palm, wrap your pointy and second finger around the top half secured against your thumb. Crack the egg and then separate the two halves by lifting the top half away from the bottom half until the egg drops out of the shell.
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Wrap your ring and little fingers around the bottom half of the egg pressing it against your palm, wrap your pointy and second finger around the top half secured against your thumb. Crack the egg and then separate the two halves by lifting the top half away from the bottom half until the egg drops out of the shell.
I’m willing to try it, but I’m willing to give 2:1 that I end up with a fist full of yoke and possibly a cut from egg shell.
No that wouldn’t be the worst thing that’s ever happened to me, but if Mrs. Goofy is around at the time it’d be a close second.
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I’m willing to try it, but I’m willing to give 2:1 that I end up with a fist full of yoke and possibly a cut from egg shell.
Try it and report back.
I crack eggs with the trash bin open so I can toss the shells. Today I cracked the egg, deposited in the bin, and tossed the shell in the bowl to scramble. I've clearly reached a certain age.
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I’m willing to try it, but I’m willing to give 2:1 that I end up with a fist full of yoke and possibly a cut from egg shell.
Try it and report back.
I have a theory that everyone is talented at *something.* I have identified a few things I’m reasonably good at, and cracking eggs one handed is not on the list. In fact, no matter how long I make the list, cracking eggs one handed will not be on it.
And yes, I have tried. Mostly I give up and go back to using the other hand, but once - yes just once, I crushed the shell trying to hold it on both ends, and found myself with a lovely egg omelette, unfortunately on the stovetop instead of in the pan.
Sometimes it’s important to follow Dirty Harry’s advice: “A man’s got to know his limitations.”
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About 50 years ago, I worked in a large kitchen for a few months. One of the first things I learned was how to crack eggs open two at a time, one in each hand. The trays of eggs (30 per tray, maybe 15 or 20 trays high) were piled on my left and on my right, and the big bowl was right in front of me. Grab an egg in each hand, crack, pour, discard shell, repeat. And repeat and repeat and repeat until you've cracked about 1000 eggs in total. Whoever was running the griddle that day would take the big bowl and replace it with another when they were ready to scramble up a batch. This was almost every morning for breakfast.
Today it is done differently. Pretty much any kitchen that requires 1000 eggs each morning gets them pre-shelled by volume in liquid form. Sure they keep a few regular eggs around for fried or over easy, but omelettes and scrambled use the pre-packaged liquid stuff.
I don't think I can crack two at a time anymore.
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I crack eggs with the trash bin open so I can toss the shells. Today I cracked the egg, deposited in the bin, and tossed the shell in the bowl to scramble. I've clearly reached a certain age.
We have a bowl on the counter for compost where the egg shells go. The other day my wife cracked an egg and put it in the compost with the shell in the scramble bowl. We had a good laugh. The very next day I did the exact same thing.
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I'm browsing the back 40 of shrewdm because the home page to which I am accustomed "myyahoo" was eliminated yesterday by yahoo. In it's place is a endless column of miscellaneous stories and 'sponsored' websites.
I liked the old myyahoo format that was a static page with defined areas for weather, finance, news, etc showing the sources I prefer.
So I had a box for NPR, a box for NYT, a box wit my prefered weather source, a box for email....
My search brought me to LBYM.
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A fried egg on toast is my go to too. Went through the same evolution; counter, edge of skillet, separate bowl... 6 decades 'til I saw the light.
Take egg. When you're ready to fry, crack the side of the egg slightly off center of the middle of the dang skillet. Bam!
Toss the empty shell. Grab the next egg. Crack it right next to the first egg. Don't be shy... it won't hurt or burn you.
ZERO MESS on the edge of the skillet, counter, no drop of eggwhite on the edge of the stovetop. No muss no fuss.
