/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.8611508]

How do you crack an egg on a flat surface?

Are you actually supposed to do it this way?

[Anonymous No.8611522]

>>8611508
>crack egg on flat surface
>50% chance some raw egg residue leaks out and drips on surface
>crack egg on side of bowl
>0% chance of egg dripping anywhere but the bowl
I don't care if it's some traditional italian thing to crack an egg on the table. It's barbaric.

[Anonymous No.8611546]

>>8611522
>crack an egg on a flat surface
>100% chance of no mess
>50% chance if you're an autist
>just_wipe_it_off.mp4
>crack on egg on a bowl
>200% chance shell goes inside egg
>egg goes in food
>get salmonella
>F
>ברה

[Anonymous No.8611554]

>tap middle of the egg on surface
>it cracks just enough for you to put your thumb through the shell and easily open it up
>pour egg out

are you people actually fucking retarded? >>8611522

[Anonymous No.8611557]

>>8611508
It's like opening a tough lid. You use explosive force, not a constant force
it's doable, but you should find an edge. the edge of my stove has a little lip and I do it there, and wipe it up with a bleach rag after

[Anonymous No.8611565]

>>8611546
I've literally never gotten shell in my eggs when cracking on an edge. It just doesn't happen to people that know how to use their hands

[Anonymous No.8611582]

I wouldn't risk pissing off Jacques. He won't hire you if you edge crack an egg in front of him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCHCsOBZ58M

[Anonymous No.8611602]

Guys calm down.

[Anonymous No.8611610]

>>8611582
Yeah, but who is he? Does black twitter "make memes" about him on the reddit?

[Anonymous No.8611775]

>all these autists aren't using another egg to crack their eggs

How stupid could you be

[Anonymous No.8611803]

>>8611775
>all these autists aren't using another egg to crack their eggs
For every force there is an equal and opposite force, you'd have two cracked eggs.

[Anonymous No.8611810]

>>8611775
>not switching the contents of two eggs and resealing them with a chalk based paste in prep
Have you ever even worked in a kitchen?

[Anonymous No.8611816]

>>8611803
It's the law of nature. Survival of the fittest. The uncracked egg gets put back in the container.

Pretty soon you have identified the alpha egg in the pack. My grandfather had an alpha egg that lasted 20 years.

He called it Big Cracker

[Anonymous No.8611822]

>>8611775
>not punching your eggs open like Jack

[Anonymous No.8612041]

>>8611816
oh fuck thats good

[Ruby !Sempai.oWA No.8612057]

>>8611546

>shell goes inside egg
>get salmonella
Lemme guess, you live in one of those retarded countries where they don't wash the shells, right?

[Anonymous No.8612059]

With your hands you fuckin idiot

[Anonymous No.8612063]

who bash egg on skull here

[Anonymous No.8612064]

>>8611546
>200% chance shell goes inside egg
>egg goes in food
>get salmonella
pajeet detected

[Anonymous No.8612065]

>that feel when you go to crack an egg on the counter but instead of getting a spiderweb fracture it gets some dumb crack going to the top of the egg and you just end up pulling off a piece of the shell and making a hole that is not big enough for the yolk to get out of.

[Anonymous No.8612069]

>>8612065
literally the worst feeling
It's like being betrayed by your favorite ingredient.

[Anonymous No.8612072]

>>8612059
>using your hands

Even birds can use tools. Are you seriously less intelligent than a bird?

[Anonymous No.8612082]

>Tap egg gently but firmly with a fork or the back of the knife.
>You now have a perfectline cracked through the middle of the egg shell.
>Push thumb through to make a hole and pull the two half shells apart, do this over the bowl and drop the egg in.
>Or if you're seperating the yolk and whites use the shell halves like cups to pass the yolk between them until all the white has dripped out.

I don't know why you'd need to tap it on any surfaces when simply tapping the egg with the back of a small knife or a fork does the trick even better than some pretentious method.

[Anonymous No.8612089]

>>8612082
I don't believe you for one second. The utensil will just go through the egg shell and pierce the yolk before it even leaves the shell.

[Anonymous No.8612105]

>>8612089
He said tap the shell, not use your autism strength, retard

[Anonymous No.8612107]

>>8612089
He said tap it gently not put the whole damn knife through it like some dumb asshole

[Anonymous No.8612125]

>>8612089

>>8612082
>Tap egg gently but firmly with a fork or the back of the knife.
>Tap egg gently
>Tap egg gently

[Anonymous No.8612135]

>>8612082
>gently but firmly

[Anonymous No.8612140]

>>8612082
How is tapping with a fork less pretentious than hitting it on the side of a bowl?

[Anonymous No.8612142]

Speaking of eggs, I have trouble flipping my eggs when I fry them. Like the spatula won't go all the way under the yolk, it'll only go like 90% of the way, so half the time I end up supremely fucking it up. How do I not do this?

[Anonymous No.8612145]

>>8612135
Dumbass frogposter

[Anonymous No.8612146]

>>8612142
get gud

[Anonymous No.8612157]

>>8612057
Washing the shells is what causes the problems in the US

[Anonymous No.8612184]

>not just eating the eggshells to get stronger

[Anonymous No.8612186]

>>8612140
It only is when people say that's what you're supposed to do, as if its the only right way to crack an egg and only master cooks know of this ancient method passed down from the italian gods themselves.

>>8612142
Practice really. Start off doing it carefully, maybe use a wooden utensil to flip it over a metal one.
As you practice you'll start to learn how to handle the egg without breaking the yolk and ruining it.

[Anonymous No.8612221]

>>8612072
I want to see ja/ck/ using this

[Anonymous No.8612226]

>>8611508
No idea why you would do that because all that comes to mind is HowToBasic smashing shit with his palms

[Anonymous No.8612227]

>>8612221
I want you to fuck off back to Rebbit.
Checkmate.

[Anonymous No.8612228]

>>8612064
How many Indians do you know that speak Hebrew?

[Anonymous No.8612784]

>>8612228
one

[Anonymous No.8613525]

>>8611508
The edges on my bowls and cutting boards were too broad so I tried a knife and never looked back.

[Anonymous No.8615260]

>>8611522
I crack it in the pan. Not the edge of the pan, the bottom.

[Anonymous No.8615264]

>>8611546
Eggshell doesn't cause salmonella if it's fully cooked. It's just extra calcium.

[Anonymous No.8615288]

>>8612041
>when you think the pasta is fresh

[Anonymous No.8615565]

>>8615288
yeah, what would have happened if the Big Cracker alpha had had found its master one fine day, maybe a mutant egg, when he least suspected it? and twenty years old, putrid slimy rotting egg had exploded all over his kitchen and himself. I wonder if that story is true or just some /ck/ bullshit.

[Anonymous No.8615842]

oh i thought i was still on /tv/

this thread makes more sense now

[Anonymous No.8615867]

>>8611522
Couldn't you crack it with the bottom of a spoon?

[Anonymous No.8616097]

>>8611565
its happened to me enough times myself but generally the edge has very little to do with the method (piece usually falls off on top of the egg after the fact) to the point that i think these fucking idiots have no idea what theyre talking about. I want to get good at flat cracking to impress chefs that I am not a basic bitch but edge is superior.

[Anonymous No.8616157]

>>8612227