Cool Tip..

Jul 2, 2008 at 10:14 AM
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Usually when I crack eggs, I do it on the side of the bowl. And then sometimes I spend the next half hour fishing egg shells out of that same bowl with another piece of egg shell (I know..you aren't supposed to do that anymore because of cross contamination with the outside of the egg shell but I'm not that anal.) Well, Nathan taught me this cool thing he learned in cooking class....

You crack it on a flat surface..in this case the kitchen table on a paper towel..

Crack

And it makes a clean break...

Clean-Break

So you can open it without getting egg shells in your bowl..

No-Shell

I've watched him do it three days in a row and it's worked every time. Now I gotta get him to let me try it. He hogs all the egg cracking around here.

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Oh man! I always crack mine on the table and they're always a shattered mess! :(

Now I've got to try that. I'll try, but I still see disaster.

Holy cow! I've never seen that. All the Cooking Shows (capital C, capital S) only tell you to crack them on the side of a separate, smaller bowl. I'm going to try that the next time! Very cool, thanks for the photo instructions too!

I MUST try this!

That's cool! I'm definitely going to try this (as I am in that category of messy egg breakers).

Whenever I do that, the egg shell smashes in the same way as on the side of the bowl, and I also have egg on my counter. Nathan must have some sort of magic touch.

Bailey's an egg-cracking hog too, and I'm going to have her try this because she often makes a mess. I have to admit that I didn't know that they were recommending to not use the big part of the eggshell to scoop out the little parts. But I have thought about the cross-contamination thing. I just always figured that any gross little buggers that got in there would die when you cooked the eggs, just like the Salmonella does.

Am I the only one around here who does the devil-may-care one-handed crack???

And just what is it that Nathan makes from eggs, coffee mate, salt, pepper, and tabby cat?

He was making scrambled eggs today. Yeah, he used creamer, I was out of milk. The tabby cat was just a spectator. I don't even think he got any eggs.

I can do the one handed crack when I actually get a chance to crack an egg. It's been so long, though, I might have lost my touch by now.

You gotta be kidding me. How is that possible? He is the wonder child.

I tried it today. The first time, it made a mess. The second time, I used a lighter touch and tap..it made a line and worked perfectly. But then I broke the yolk when I just needed the white..if it's not one thing, it's another.

Yeah..he's a wonder, all right.

Cool Tip..

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