How do you break an egg?

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My personal favorite

>>8525766
By calling it mean and negative things daily.

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Come on guys, take a serious crack at this.

>>8525766

Solid tap against the edge of the counter to spiderweb it and then pry it apart with my thumbs. I find all the gimmicky stuff completely unnecessary compared to just learning not to hit too hard.

>>8525912
Yeah I hit it against the side of the pan myself and also use my thumbs to split it open. I don't understand why anyone would use a flat surface.

>>8525766

Flat surface. Any will do. Sometimes I use the middle of the hot pan to crack them and just lift and split. It's the quickest.

>>8525766
Throw it in the air, slice in half with superior nippon ginsu knife

>>8525977
This. If you break an egg against an edge, there's a good chance there'll be small shell pieces that could fall together with the egg. If you smash it against a flat surface, it only makes one long crack around the egg (if you do it right, it could take a while)

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>>8526018
i think it's so much more messy to smash it against a flat surface. when using an edge there's none of the mess and i dunno why people say there's higher risk of getting shell pieces in the food

>>8525923
This. Or on the side of the bowl if I am making scrambled eggs / omelette. What does using a flat surface achieve? I never get bits of shell mixing in and there is no mess

>>8525923
You want to avoid anything with a 'pointed' surface as it can push shards of the shell into the egg with alarming frequency, which is bad news bears unless you intend to crack it into a bowl and scour it for said shards. Or unless you want to eat egg shards.

Send it to boot camp.

>>8526041
>>8526048

You are probably using proper force. So there's no complication.

Using a flat surface breaks the egg so it can be split along a crack.

Using an edge pierces the shell so that it is divided and in my opinion requires more precise control.

The only benefit to using a flat surface is going fast and not needing to be as careful. I break the egg where it'll be cooked. You can use more force and less care.


The egg pieces, well I find the quality of the egg to be more relevant.

flat surface master race reporting in.

>>8525923
>I don't understand why anyone would use a flat surface.

Less chance of pieces of egg shell breaking into the bowl.

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Just me?

>>8525766
>There are people in this thread that don't use an EZ cracker.
It's like /ck/ doesn't even like comfort and ease

>>8526236
"Did you know that when pressing an egg in your hand its shape will distribute the pressure equally in such a way it prevents the egg from breaking?"

>>8526399
Not if you point the tip of your fingers into the egg.
But, yeah, I knew.

>>8526427
wait, that shit's real?

>>8525766
Hit it against a flat surface then crack it open with one hand.

>>8525766
greedier runs with the keeper

>>8525912

This is completely wrong. This contaminates the inside of the egg. You are suppose to tap it against a flat surface.

>>8525766
>sharply tap on flat surface
>crack forms completely around the center of the egg
>pull apart with ease
>don't get any raw egg on my fingers from digging my thumbs into the egg
>don't get any eggshell in my food from breaking it into a hundred pieces

Cornerfags stay mad.

I hit it against an edge. Never even thought about other ways because that works.

>>8526777
just watched the one he finally won

>>8526777
kek

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Some eggheads need to do some tests on finding the best method.

>>8526018
>>8526058
Thank you for explaining this.
I never thought about it like that. Now I know why I'm so bad at cracking eggs.

How to open eggs one handed like cool people on tv?

>smash egg against pointed surface
>"huirr y are shell bitz in"

maybe try restraining your tard strength when breaking an egg?

I swear some people in this board shouldn't be allowed near a kitchen

>>8525779
what if it simmers with hatred and pops all over your face?

>>8525766
Waterboard it until I get the info I need.

>>8526910
Learn to chef you dumb fucking fsggot why r u even on this board

>>8526910
Practice makes perfect. I use an edge so i stick my thumb in the crack and pry it open

>>8525766
Smash it against your head

>>8525766
Chuck it at something while screaming incoherently, and post it on Youtube.

Hold in one hand and punch it with the other. I like to hit it with my college ring so it breaks easier.

Place it in a room with bright lights and static constantly playing.
Do this for a few weeks.

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>>8525766
punch it with my ring

then choke my kid

>>8525766
crack on a flat surface, and never on the actual pan or bowl.

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None of you using EZcracker? Best purchase I ever made, been loving it ever since 1999.

with a fork
is this abnormal

>>8528723
yeah but then you look like a n00b who doesn't know how to crack eggs.

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>>8528747
pff, rather that i look like a pro that needs his eggs to be perfect

>>8526155

It's actually to prevent contamination.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imKuUNQd0cs

>>8526794
I do this but I always get egg on my fingers.

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Just tried using a flat surface and holy shit you need to smash so hard compared to the side of the pan! Of course goo leaked out as well so I had to wipe the counter.

I'm starting to think maybe flat surface egg cracking only works for brittle American eggs.

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>>8528735
I use a fish knife, they are the perfect weight and size for it.

>>8529166
You just have to find the correct amount of strength for the eggs you're using

>>8529166
It works on the eggs I get from my chickens and those are stomg enough that I can drop them on the ground and they dont always break.

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>>8525766
Waterboard it, starve it, question it under lamps, place it in stress positions, trick it into thinking you're going to kill it's family starting with pulling it's daughters finger nails out, pull it's teeth out with pliers, deprive it of sleep.

"THERE ARE 4 LIGHTS"

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>watch ja/ck/ vids
>laugh at how stupid he is
>notice he cracks eggs by punching them with one knuckle
>try it out
>it usually takes two punches, one bounces off, the second fucks up the shell enough that when you crack it you get piece of shell in your egg
>do this for almost a year because idklol
>girlfriend eventually asks me why I'm such a retard with eggs
>contemplate explaining ja/ck/ to her
>realize a woman will never understand jack
>"uhhh I don't know, I think that's how Gordon Ramsay does it"
>"you're no Gordon Ramsay"

And you know what? She was right.

>>8526785

Shut the hell up you superstitious mongoloid.

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>>8529308
haha!

im going to try that tomorrow