Questions tagged [eggs]
Questions about eggs and egg based foods, or egg substitutions in recipes.
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Does the ratio of ingredients change in shirred eggs as the overall amount goes up?
My recipe for shirred eggs consists of 24 eggs, 2t salt, ½ cup melted butter, 2 cups milk.
I stretched that recipe to 30 eggs and slightly increased other ingredients. Results were great.
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can you add sugar to pickled eggs after they are done?
I have had eggs done for 6-8 weeks and when I tried them they are not as sweet as i would like them. can I add more sugar to the jars to make them sweeter
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Can I substitute whole eggs instead of egg yokes in lemon pudding?
Can I use 2 whole eggs instead of 4 egg yolks in a lemon pudding pie filling?
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How can I prevent solid mix-ins from sinking or floating in my sous vide egg bites
Inspired by https://recipes.anovaculinary.com/recipe/sous-vide-egg-bites-bacon-gruyere I tried to make a variant of this recipe. My primary goal was to cook a single "log" of egg bites which ...
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Egg replacement in braided bread recipe that has milk in it [duplicate]
I have a “braided bread recipe” that has warm milk in it, but I want to replace the egg, is water, oil and bi carb soda mixed a sufficient replacement….???
And will it affect the bread…??
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How can one tell if an egg is a regular cooked egg or an egg balut?
I can tell whether a egg is cooked by observing its spinning pattern. But how can one tell if an egg is a regular cooked egg or an egg balut (without opening or damaging the egg)?
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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?
In more detail: there is already a ...
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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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How can you cook a Spaghetti Carbonara sous-vide?
I'm looking to make my first sous-vide Spaghetti Carbonara. My thinking is that it would be impossible to cook everything in the same pouch together as the dried pasta would not rehydrate. The current ...
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Creme Brulee, Kilner jars and Sous Vide - heat up fast or slow?
I normally use bags for my Sous Vide recipes but I have invested in some genuine Kilner jars to make Creme Brulee.
America's Test Kitchen places the custard in sealed jars in the hot 180F (83C) bath. ...
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White ring around inside of hard boiled egg yolk?
I hard boiled this egg the other day and when I sliced it open today to eat it I noticed there’s a white ring around the inside of the yolk. What is this? Is it still safe to eat?
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Substitution for egg YOLK in cake recipe?
I'm making a cake for a person with an egg allergy. I typically just use Bob Red Mill egg replacer, but the baking powder in the replacer causes the cake to come out flat and overly tender. This is ...
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How far in advance can I prepare Zabaglione before cooking sous-vide?
I an going to make a Zabaglione desert (egg yolks, sugar and Limoncello). This will be cooked sous-vide at 74C for 20 minutes and the pouch agitated occasionally during the cooking time.
Can I stick ...
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Veganizing a Kringle recipe
I am attempting to veganize a Kringle for an upcoming event. Below is the original recipe I am referencing, and I am stumped as to how to replace the egg in the dough portion. I have never seen a ...
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How would you recommend further improving this "the eggs take longer than the pizza" solution?
Based on the incredible answers and discussion here Resolve a "the eggs take longer than the pizza" issue?
After a few experiments it does seem to be the case that incredibly
eggs for 4 ...
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Resolve a "the eggs take longer than the pizza" issue?
I often cook a typical frozen pizza like this
in a typical mini-oven like this
I go with a nominal 420° indicated on the small over for 13 minutes. ("12-14 mins" suggested on the packaging....
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What is the best practice for cleaning eggs when some in the carton have broken?
Carrying eggs home after purchase some of your eggs break and spill onto the rest. You take them all out carefully but don’t want to store them with exposed white/yolk on the shells lest they get very ...
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What is the effect of washing unbroken eggs?
I recall reading or watching something at one point that I apparently found credible enough to bother mentally filing away that suggested that if one washes off an invisibly thin outer layer of ...
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How to fix pancakey cookies after substituting yogurt for eggs?
I made a cardamom cookie batter using this recipe but using cardamom instead of lemon. I had no eggs, so I tried substituting Greek yogurt (non-fat, since that’s what I had). First batch I made have ...
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Why do we add mustard to egg mix when making Schnitzel?
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The flour gives somethigng that egg can stick too
The egg wash layer acts as something which the bread crumbs stick too
But, why mix in the mustard to the egg? Couldn't the egg wash ...
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Add butter cubes into sugar and egg mixture. Can food processor cream the butter in this situation?
I accidentally added butter cubes into egg & sugar mixture and it turned out grainy and unable to incorporate.I was trying to salvage the cookie dough by adding all of the mixture into food ...
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Can I rescue unwhippable cocoa-meringue?
I had a bunch of egg whites leftover so I thought I'd make meringues. And for fun I thought I'd throw in some cocoa powder. This is a Swiss meringue recipe where I warmed the whites, cocoa, and sugar ...
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Is it ok to eat an egg that was laid by a hen on the floor of the coop instead of the nesting box?
I read somewhere when I first got chickens that you should discard any eggs not laid in the nesting box. I have always thrown those away but got to thinking that people that have free range chickens, ...
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Sponge cake: how the proportions of the ingredients change the result
The common recipe (at least in Italy) for sponge cake is:
total weight of eggs (yolks + whites) = X
sugar = flour = 2/3 X
I'm aware that the ratio of the ingredients affect the final result. For ...
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Why would a cake mix call for the same number of whole eggs or just whites?
I have a Betty Crocker white box cake mix and the box says to use either three egg whites or three whole eggs. This doesn't make sense to me: if I used whole eggs wouldn't I use less, more like one ...
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How to sous vide eggs in their shells without cracking
I recently tried pasteurising eggs at 57C for 90 minutes, gently adding them directly to the water with a silicone spoon. When finished, I discovered three out of the six had cracked.
Ideally, I want ...
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Are hard boiled eggs safe to eat after hours out of the fridge? [duplicate]
I left hard boiled eggs in cold water over night are they still good to eat? The have the egg odor to them
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Do other cultures' foods have anything like ramen eggs?
One of my favourite parts of making ramen is ajitsuke tamago – a soft-boiled egg marinated in soy sauce, mirin, and sake.
Marinating a boiled egg to impart flavour seems like a simple idea, but I'm ...
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Why does making a pasta require more yolks than whites?
I have looked up numerous pasta recipes and all of them suggest adding a certain number of whole eggs and a certain number of additional egg yolks. I am just curious why we need only yolks? How would ...
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How safe is it to have raw cracked eggs uncovered in the fridge?
At my work we crack maybe 400 to 500 eggs as prep in the morning into little cups and put them in the walk-in fridge. I’ve noticed after some hours if I make myself some eggs to eat later in the day I ...
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Vegan substitutes for eggs in baking [duplicate]
What can I use instead of eggs for baking, ie, I need very close vegan alternatives.
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Figuring out Spanish/Basque savory flan
I'm trying to recreate a dish I had in the Orio restaurant in Valencia, Spain.
For lunch, Orio serves a vast buffet of Basque-style open sandwiches (pinchos), including our favorite, which was topped ...
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Can aquafaba be used in place of flax egg as a binding agent?
I'm interested in following a recipe for lentil wellington. The recipe uses "flax egg", a mixture of ground flax and water, as a binding agent for the lentil and vegetable loaf.
My ...
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How do I tell when my over medium eggs are done?
I can make an egg over easy, but somehow I can't get over medium. I've tried different methods like lower heat, longer time and high heat, shorter time. At best I end up with a yolk that's overcooked ...
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What is the purpose of adding egg when flouring and deep frying chicken?
Many recipes (e.g. orange chicken) call for the chicken to be coated in flour, the beaten egg (whole, whole with a dash of milk or just the whites), coated again with flour and then deep fried. The ...
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What Would This Sauerkraut Dish Be Called?
I have a receipe I've been making for a while. I expect that it's "some kind of... or some variation of... " but have no idea what that might be.
Ingredients
Thick Cut Bacon (100g?). I've ...
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Why do the whipped egg white and syrup for my sorbet not combine?
For some fruit sorbet recipes, eg lemon sorbet, the recipe has three fundamental components:
a syrup (maybe cooked with lemon zest etc)
the juice of your fruit
whipped egg whites
It is simple: ...
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Do duck eggs require extra safety precautions?
The answer to a recent question on the Law Stack Exchange ("Is it illegal to sell duck eggs in Austria?") establishes that fresh duck eggs are (or were) illegal to sell in Austria without a ...
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