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How to Perfectly Crack an Egg (With One Hand) [video]

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Re: How to Perfectly Crack an Egg (With One Hand) [video]

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Post by minkiebun »

kulahan wrote: post #14
11thEarlOfMar wrote: post #8

A few years back, I was a line cook for Denny's. Busiest day of the year was always Mother's Day. Shortly after Denny's introduced the Grand Slam Breakfast (I did say a few years back) I worked Monther's Day on the egg station. In 8 hours, I did eggs for 344 Grand Slams and 45 omlettes. Total: 803 eggs. So I got pretty good at cracking with one hand. The only point I'll add: Crack on a flat surface like the counter,…

One little tip with regards to those bits of shell: wet your finger with water before fishing them out. I dunno why, but it somehow repels the egg white and lets you actually grip the damn shell.

It’s even easier to get the bits of shell using a larger piece of shell.

Re: How to Perfectly Crack an Egg (With One Hand) [video]

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Post by notyourwork »

11thEarlOfMar wrote: post #8

A few years back, I was a line cook for Denny's. Busiest day of the year was always Mother's Day. Shortly after Denny's introduced the Grand Slam Breakfast (I did say a few years back) I worked Monther's Day on the egg station. In 8 hours, I did eggs for 344 Grand Slams and 45 omlettes. Total: 803 eggs. So I got pretty good at cracking with one hand. The only point I'll add: Crack on a flat surface like the counter,…

> PS: I also got to the point I could shell 30 hard boiled eggs in under 30 seconds with a 2-handed shell technique.

This is something I'd love to master. Not sure why but I'm terrible at shelling hard boiled eggs.

Re: How to Perfectly Crack an Egg (With One Hand) [video]

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Post by FiniteLooper »

grimgrin wrote: post #17
docdeek wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I also got to the point I could shell 30 hard boiled eggs in under 30 seconds with a 2-handed shell technique. Amazing- I think that I would have trouble picking up 30 eggs in 30 seconds.

There are many eggy talents Lest not forgot The Eggman: https://youtu.be/yewjkwZB-YE?si=B01MigqdtkoVILi1

coo coo ca choo

Re: How to Perfectly Crack an Egg (With One Hand) [video]

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Post by beepbooptheory »

11thEarlOfMar wrote: post #8

A few years back, I was a line cook for Denny's. Busiest day of the year was always Mother's Day. Shortly after Denny's introduced the Grand Slam Breakfast (I did say a few years back) I worked Monther's Day on the egg station. In 8 hours, I did eggs for 344 Grand Slams and 45 omlettes. Total: 803 eggs. So I got pretty good at cracking with one hand. The only point I'll add: Crack on a flat surface like the counter,…

When I worked for some years in a ramen shop I gained a visible callous on my thumb from peeling ajitama. I remember we would often have races to see who could peel a batch of something like 300 eggs first. I don't remember exactly, but it seems quite reasonable to me that an average time for those races would be under 10 minutes. Great to make Chef happy and have a little fun too!

The callous went away, but have a few more permanent burn scars still from those long long days and nights making tonkotsu with simply 100qt pots and large ranges.

Re: How to Perfectly Crack an Egg (With One Hand) [video]

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Post by randycupertino »

akeck wrote: post #24

For a few years when I was younger, I got good at cracking eggs with a single hairline crack. I would then wash them, glue them back together, and then paint them with acrylic paint.

We used to do this with Easter Eggs, you would poke a hole in the top and the bottom of the egg with a pin and blow out the egg, use the insides to make scrambled eggs, then paint the egg.

Re: How to Perfectly Crack an Egg (With One Hand) [video]

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Post by hinkley »

klyrs wrote: post #20
rripken wrote: post #18

At 0:47 the video clearly shows three fingers on the "top" part of the egg. At 0:58 the ping pong ball exercise clearly shows three fingers on the top part. The break at 1:08 also has three fingers on the top. But then for some reason at 1:12 the performer switches to two fingers above the break. The double break at 1:33 also shows two fingers above the crack. Some of the egg breaks in the video pull the halves away…

> I guess instead of complaining I should create my own video. I'm eagerly awaiting the sequels to this video where they show us 2-handed, 3-handed, and even more advanced egg cracking methods.

Broken down by hand size, of course.

Re: How to Perfectly Crack an Egg (With One Hand) [video]

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Post by hinkley »

randycupertino wrote: post #26
akeck wrote: post #24

For a few years when I was younger, I got good at cracking eggs with a single hairline crack. I would then wash them, glue them back together, and then paint them with acrylic paint.

We used to do this with Easter Eggs, you would poke a hole in the top and the bottom of the egg with a pin and blow out the egg, use the insides to make scrambled eggs, then paint the egg.

You could have been making cookies, you fool!

Re: How to Perfectly Crack an Egg (With One Hand) [video]

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Post by doublerabbit »

minkiebun wrote: post #21
kulahan wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One little tip with regards to those bits of shell: wet your finger with water before fishing them out. I dunno why, but it somehow repels the egg white and lets you actually grip the damn shell.

It’s even easier to get the bits of shell using a larger piece of shell.

I just leave the shell. It's not harmful and you never taste/feel it anyway.

Re: How to Perfectly Crack an Egg (With One Hand) [video]

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Post by [deleted] »

notyourwork wrote: post #22
11thEarlOfMar wrote: post #8

A few years back, I was a line cook for Denny's. Busiest day of the year was always Mother's Day. Shortly after Denny's introduced the Grand Slam Breakfast (I did say a few years back) I worked Monther's Day on the egg station. In 8 hours, I did eggs for 344 Grand Slams and 45 omlettes. Total: 803 eggs. So I got pretty good at cracking with one hand. The only point I'll add: Crack on a flat surface like the counter,…

> PS: I also got to the point I could shell 30 hard boiled eggs in under 30 seconds with a 2-handed shell technique. This is something I'd love to master. Not sure why but I'm terrible at shelling hard boiled eggs.

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