Questions tagged [eggs]
Questions about eggs and egg based foods, or egg substitutions in recipes.
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Should I preheat to pan fry to the Leidenfrost degree? [duplicate]
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When I wanted to use butter as the grease while preparing crêpes and get them to be golden, rumtscho replied that "these two wishes are mutually exclusive."
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Why is the inside of my egg shell/outside of my cooked egg purple? [duplicate]
My other cooked eggs were all normal. Boiled in regular water with salt, rinsed off with cold water and then put in fridge. None of the other eggs had this and I’ve been boiling eggs the exact same ...
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How precisely does the five ways of cooking an egg, and the issue of low/high heat less/more cooking time, affect the resulting protein?
How precisely does the five common ways of cooking an egg - boil, fry, raw, scramble, omelette - and the issue of low/high heat less/more cooking time, affect the resulting protein molecules?
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Creme Brulee disaster - Any way to recover? [duplicate]
I made a batch of Creme Brulee in my Sous Vide bath last night (82C for 1 hour in a ziploc bag), 6 egg yolks, 600ml cream, 6 tablespoons of sugar and vanilla essence. Normally, this turns out firm but ...
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What's wrong with cooking shakshuka eggs separately?
If I fry/poach eggs for shakshuka (essentially fried tomato paste with spices) separately, not in tomato sauce dips, will it make any difference to the final result?
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Why add eggs to semolina dough one hot, one cold?
On a packet of durum semolina that I bought is a recipe for Nocken (a light Austrian dumpling). It has you mix the semolina into boiling milk, which gets pretty stiff as the liquid is taken up; then ...
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Fixing a baking blunder
I added too much butter to a cake batter and ended up with a stiff dough. Thought I could try to save the dough and turn it into shortbread. The cake batter called for 6 egg whites and the shortbread ...
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Is it safe to use the eggs leftover from egg wash (from dredging raw chicken) to make scrambled eggs?
As in, is it safe to consume the leftover beaten eggs in an egg wash (in contact with raw chicken) to make scrambled eggs?
Today I made buttermilk fried chicken. In the process of prepping, I ...
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Can raw eggs be made safe with hot sugar in an Italian meringue?
I found this recipe which features Italian meringue as topping. After preparation, the meringue is not cooked further, yet the author claims that adding the sugar syrup alones has pasteurized (i.e. ...
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Discovered 2 eggs cracked in late stage of brining
One more week to go brining my salted chicken eggs. I just saw 2 eggs with cracks that were not there earlier. Do I need to take them out or will it be ok? I have 5 days left.
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I left my eggs in the car for almost a day [duplicate]
I bought eggs last night and accidentally left them in the car. It was in the 30s last night, but my husband has the car and the eggs are still in there and the temperature rose to 63. Are they still ...
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Regarding brown butter n sugar and egg mixture
I whisked melted brown butter with sugar and eggs because I had to make cookies but due to some emergency I couldn't mix the flour n had to keep the butter sugar and egg mixture in the fridge ...
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What does egg do for baked grated cheese?
Here's a recipe for baked cheese bites. Is that what would call those? It mixes 200g grated cheese, 2 eggs, 2 tsp baking powder. I note that the surface has some smooth blisters in among the grate ...
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Yolk weight, Yolk/White ratio in recipes
I'm wondering why don't more recipes use yolk weight or yolk/white ratio in their description to get a more precise result? Things like flour/sugar have very precise weights listed, why not eggs?
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vegan meringue substitute without aquafaba for cake
I'm trying to make a cake that requires a meringue mixed into the cake, but without the egg. Unfortunately I'm allergic to chickpeas, so I can't use the standard aquafaba substitute. I usually ...
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