I have read that the best egg-cracking technique is to crack it on a flat surface. I have much better success doing my egg-crackin’ on the edge of a bowl.
I mastered the one-hand crack decades ago when I worked in a grocery store and we discarded dozens of expired eggs. I thought, why not learn a new skill?
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We are leaving for St Martin in a few weeks. A friend of ours there changes jobs frequently. He’s been a beach attendant, a cook, a gardener/farm worker, a tour guide, etc.
Recently he acquired a little concessions cart and fixed it up. He gets coconuts very cheap. He sells coconut drinks as an experience type thing. Imagine this Rastafarian dude swinging a razor sharp machete, gradually opening the big green coconut’s top, offering it to you to take a drink, then replacing the volume you drank with an equal volume of the liquor of your choice. All the time singing No Woman No Cry. He’s a cool character.
I learned the one hand cracking technique from watching Sabrina with Audrey Hepburn.
I’ve been trying to crack eggs one-handed since watching Paul Hollywood do it. But I’m not very good at it.
Is there any advice that can be written in words? It’s clearly a better method.
Best advice: watch Sabrina with Audrey Hepburn. Her teacher at the Cordon Bleu walks the students through it.
It’s also a good movie
Don’t just bang it, put the separation pressure on it as you hit it. Do a simultaneous spread/bang. Once that is done, the goo will flow.
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I crack the egg against a bowl. I’ve tried the countertop method many times because I’ve read that that’s the “best” way, but have not had much success. Cracking against a bowl leaves a more or less linear crack so it’s easy to separate the shell into two halves. Cracking against the countertop just smooshes in the side of the egg so there’s a more or less circular depression. Prying apart the shell at that point often results in a mess with egg on my fingers and bits of shell in the bowl. I’m sure I’m doing something wrong but the bowl method works fine for me.
Is “Sabrina” the name of the movie?
Won’t it flow all over the counter?
I hold the egg over the pan or bowl or wherever I want the contents to go, and crack it with the side of a fork or pancake turner or whatever utensil I’m otherwise using. If I mess it up, at least the mess lands in the pan or bowl or whatever.
But then, I’m a klutz.
– oh, wait a minute, that wasn’t advice for cracking an egg on the counter; that was advice for cracking it one-handed. Sorry about that. But if I did crack eggs on the counter, I’m pretty sure that’s where most of them would wind up.
Yes. Make sure it’s the 1954 Humphrey Bogart/ Audrey Hepburn version.
Be very sure. The remake bites.
I wasn’t terribly fond of the original.
I have murderer’s thumbs that make my hands slightly less agile for certain skills. I don’t think I have the proper hands to do a one-handed crack. It’s not worth the mess and waste to practice it either. It’s not like I’m a line cook.
The 1995 version wasn’t terrible. Harrison Ford and Greg Kinnear worked well off each other.
I think the deal with cracking an egg against the rim of a bowl is that if you use a little too much force, bits of shell get pushed up into the egg and have to be fished out. It’s a bit easier to control the pressure against a flat surface, and small bits of shell are less likely to come loose.
I also lied a tiny bit on the resolutions poll. I typically refuse to make resolutions because I have an oppositional streak so wide that I’m likely to refuse to do The Thing simply because I made a formal resolution. This year, though, I’ve resolved to write at least one line in my journal every day, no matter what. So that’s one, but it’s the only one and I don’t plan to make another next year.
You don’t plan on making another resolution or another journal entry?
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Another resolution. The jury’s still out on a second journal entry (fingers crossed)!
I don’t have to write if I don’t feel like it, and I can’t tell myself what to do!
TIL…
I’m unsure what is meant by “Crack it down on a flat countertop.” If that actually means smacking it against the countertop and not the edge, that sounds like it would make a god awful mess if you applied even a little too much pressure.
Anyway, I crack it against the edge of the counter. 99.5% of the time it results in no shards to fish out when transfered to a bowl.
Same here- often one handed.
Our stainless steel bowls all have slight lips on them, which I find very useful for that.