Eggs !!

[Meagan]

Ok so eggs.......I am not a sole egg eater ie I don't do boiled/scrambled/fried eggs etc you get the picture Anyway I do cook with them and most times when I do I crack them into a separate bowl and then add them to my mix . Today I was doing just that and for the first time in my life I cracked open a BAD EGG     Blergghhhhh - can't get a vomit emoticon to work on here!

So my tip is always crack your eggs into a bowl before adding to your cooking, not directly into it!

[Ceee]

During my demo on Saturday Night, the sorbet section, luckily I decided to crack the egg into a little bowl, wow, the stench, I quickly got rid of it, opened the skylight and thank goodness the air lifted before the guests noticed. I think we should do the egg in the cup of water test as well!

[Thermomixer]

Good tip - you sometimes get an idea from the weight - or lack of when you lift them up.  But yes - best to break separately.  Especiallt if you are using a lot of separated eggs - it is sometimes easy to break into the bowl !!

[brazen20au]

ewwww

i almost always crack straight into the bowl    i haven't seen a rotten egg in over 30 years i'd guess (probably will get one tonight now lol)

[Salsa Picante]

Oh No!

Better break them seperatly. Since we have a couple of Chickens in the yard, we have our own eggs and usually I write the date on them, so they get used in the right order. But sill, sometimes I forget....

What happened to me once is this:

I prepared a cake in the TM and it read: keep it running on speed 6 and add the eggs, giving each 1 Min to be blendet in.

So I cracked each egg an the lid of the TM and put it through the hole. I had to add 6 eggs, was unconcentratet and put in number 6 without cracking it !!!!

I turned of the TM, but at speed 6 there is no chance of picking out the pieces later. Then I turned the whole thing to 10 for a minute. And guess what. Nobody noticed. Okay, the cake didnīt rise a well as it shoul have. But still. Nobody noticed they had an extra dose of calcium!

It never ever happend to me again, I crack them all into a bowl now.

[cookie1]

Oh SP that would have been disastrous. I'm amazed at the cooks/chefs on TV that put eggs directly into what ever they're cooking. Yuk.
I grew up on a farm with chooks/hens and we always cracked eggs into a bowl first. I thought everyone did until I came to live in the city as a new bride. I couldn't understand why people in the supermarkets wriggled the eggs in the carton, until I bought some that had eggs cracked in them.
There is nothing worse than the smell of an off egg. We know why they call hydrogen sulphide (??) rotten egg gas.

[Salsa Picante]

Cookie:

The egg was fresh and fine, only I put it in as a the whole thing, uncracket, with the shell .

[brazen20au]

LOL SP! that's great!

[Salsa Picante]

Well,

Iīm the one that threw a bucket of water down the steps to the basement. The rug I used for cleaning was supposed to go down there. It was in my other hand.... . The laundry mashine is down there...

[judydawn]

Sounds like there is never a dull moment in your house Susanne 

[cookie1]

I realised that Susanne, that's why I said it would be disastrous. My DH made some meatballs once and there was shell left from the egg and the meatballs were very crunchy, DD ande I refused to eat them. (He didn't have his glasses on)

[Thermomixer]

Never a dull moment - great to have you on board !!

[grandma]

I always break in a separate bowl first - well not always, was caught out once - and never again!!!
By the way was told at a food safety class that you never use cracked eggs - you must throw them away as they can be full of bacteria (I think it was bacteria - or something else that was really bad), anyway if you find a cracked egg and don't know how long it's been like that for, then don't use it.

[Salsa Picante]

Dull moments? No not really.

When my daughters say: "Mom, I´m bored!" I try to remember how that felt .