Did you know you can enjoy raw eggs relatively fearlessly in the UK? As an American often found hiding out in England, I was surprised to learn that they don't have egg nog here. (more…)
Making egg nog for the British
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Prepare to be mesmerized by this industrial egg-breaking and separating machine
The Ovo-Tech Rz-1 breaks eggs like nobody's business.
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Injecting ink into a fertilized chicken egg yolk reveals beautiful branching arteries
To visualize the beating heart and vasculature of a chick embryo (72 hours old), ink is injected into its yolk sac artery with a finely drawn glass capillary needle. A window is cut into an egg to expose the embryo and then placed under a stereo microscope (Zeiss Stemi 2000-C; 10x magnification). Video by By Anna Franz, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford and MBL, Woods Hole.
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Snot nosed egg separator
No kitchen is complete without a snot nosed egg separator. It's $14 on Amazon.
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Homer Simpson fried egg portrait
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Watch hypnotic egg-breaking machines for ten minutes
These three different egg-breaking and separating machines have slightly different tasks, but they are all equally hypnotic. (more…)
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A handbook, a cookbook, an eggbook: this quasi-encyclopedic ovarian overview is the only tome you need to own
There is something irresistibly gross about Lucky Peach food photography. The bizarre lightening and color correction, the styling that fluctuates between offbeat and grotesque. It’s so weird, it’s amazing. Aside from it’s unique visual appeal, Lucky Peach is consistently packed with culinary expertise and damn good journalism. Though the magazine will soon be gone, the brand’s fourth (and presumably final) book, All About Eggs, embodies everything that was great about the publication compiled in a kelly green hard cover.
All About Eggs really is all about eggs. It examines the egg from every angle. There are essays on the evolution of the egg tart in Asia, an egg-fueled murder in a San Francisco diner, and the egg throughout time. There are guides on deciphering egg carton labels, egg varieties, and egg substitutes. The bright yellow yolk at the center of the book houses strangely photographed finished recipes ranging from deep fried Filipino Kwek Kwek to classic, crisp French Meringues. The egg white pages on either side of the recipe section are generously peppered with egg photo illustration—egg art objects, repurposed egg shells and cartons, egg ephemera, and many, many altered photos of eggs (anthropomorphized, animalized, and otherwise reimagined). If you are at all interested in eggs, you need this book!
All About Eggs: Everything We Know About the World's Most Important Food
by Rachel Khong, the editors of Lucky Peach
Clarkson Potter
2017, 256 pages, 6.8 x 1 x 8.8 inches, Hardcover
$16 Buy on Amazon
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The Onion's new profanity-laced cooking videos send up the genre perfectly
Since Gordon Ramsay got 25 million views showing how to scramble eggs, there's been a sharp uptick in inane cooking videos. Enter The Onion with the perfect response. (more…)
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Egg processing machine supercut
The gold standard of egg machine videos is back with some lovely footage of some new devices: Polish egg processor OVO-TECH demonstrates the Egg Splitter Rz3. (more…)
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Watch a Japanese egg poacher that cooks yolks into stars and other shapes
This delightfully impractical gadget looks complicated, but can a price be put on the value of serving eggs with star-shaped yolks? (more…)
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This LEGO robot cooks eggs and bacon
From The Brick Wall:
"My father cooks breakfast every Saturday and Sunday- it is 104 times a year! He deserved this present."
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The Clown Egg Register: photos of the painstakingly painted eggs that English clowns stake their faces on
Since 1946, the Clown Egg Register has collected blown eggshells that clowns hand-paint with their distinctive makeup, in order to claim that particular makeup as belonging to them; by custom, clowns do not copy each others' faces.
If this sounds familiar, it might be because a clown egg register plays a key role in a murder mystery in Making Money, one of my all-time favorite Terry Pratchett novels.
Today, the Clown Egg Register lives in the Wookey Hole Clowns Gallery-Museum in Somerset, and most of the eggs are ceramic, to avoid the inevitable damage and loss of history.
Photographers Luke Stephenson and Helen Champion have documented the egg-faces in a new book called The Clown Egg Register (natch). It sounds gorgeous and incredibly weird, and makes me want to swing by Somerset the next time I'm in London!
This mesmerizing volume collects more than 150 of these portraits, from 1946 to the modern day, accompanied by short personal histories of many of the clowns. Here are Tricky Nicky, Taffy, Bobo, Sammy Sunshine, the legendary Emmett Kelly, and Jolly Jack, clowning since 1977 and still performing today with a penguin puppet named Biscuit. A treasure just like the eggs it enshrines, The Clown Egg Register is an extraordinary archive of images and lives of the men and women behind the make-up.
The Clown Egg Register [Luke Stephenson and Helen Champion/Chronicle Books]
How whimsical/horrifying! Here’s a book of clown faces painted onto eggs. [Constance Grady/Vox]
(via JWZ)
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An overengineered invention to crack open eggs
Although properly breaking open eggs isn't as hard as they show in the video, people with certain disabilities might find value in The Q's "DIY Simple Egg Opener" (or this one which is already on the market).
This amazing kitchen gadget allows you to open any chicken egg in seconds! No more eggshell in your dish!
All you need are plywood, popsicle sticks, 3 springs and small piece of sponge! Don't wait, build your own egg opener and make your morning easier :)
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How a 'Tornado Omelette' is cooked
A South Korean street food treat.
I could watch this 'making of' video on loop forever.
“Tornado Omelette Rice, Magma Omelette Rice - Korean Street Food.” From Yummyboy.
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Largest known soft-shell reptile egg discovered in Antarctica
A new article from Nature describes the discovery of a 100-million-year-old fossilized reptile egg with a soft, leathery shell that's nearly a foot long. It's the second-largest egg fossil ever discovered (after the egg of the elephant bird, which had a hard shell about five times thicker), and also the first such discovery made on the continent of Antarctica.
As National Geographic summarizes:
The 68-million-year-old egg, called Antarcticoolithus bradyi, is the first fossil egg ever found in Antarctica, only outsized by the eggs of Madagascar’s extinct elephant bird. Antarcticoolithus is also one of the few fossil eggs ever found in marine sediment. “For the first egg remnant from Antarctica to be a nearly complete egg that has finely preserved microstructure is kind of insane,” says Julia Clarke of UT Austin.
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Under a microscope, Antarcticoolithus not only lacked the internal structure of hard eggshells, but also the pores of hard-shelled eggs, suggesting the large egg was soft.
At the time the egg was laid, large marine reptiles called mosasaurs lived in the Antarctic waters where the fossil egg was entombed. The bones of a mosasaur were found less than 700 feet from the site, suggesting the egg may have belonged to these 20-foot-long swimming reptiles.
Here's the real kicker though: the scientists didn't find any bones inside of the egg. And while they think it would have belonged to a mosasaur, or some other 20-plus-foot-long swimming reptiles, that wouldn't gel with their current knowledge of those leviathans. From Nature(emphasis added):
The identity of the animal that laid the egg is unknown, but these preserved morphologies are consistent with the skeletal remains of mosasaurs (large marine lepidosaurs) found nearby. They are not consistent with described morphologies of dinosaur eggs of a similar size class. Phylogenetic analyses of traits for 259 lepidosaur species plus outgroups suggest that the egg belonged to an individual that was at least 7 metres long, hypothesized to be a giant marine reptile, all clades of which have previously been proposed to show live birth. Such a large egg with a relatively thin eggshell may reflect derived constraints associated with body shape, reproductive investment linked with gigantism, and lepidosaurian viviparity, in which a ‘vestigial’ egg is laid and hatches immediately.
National Geographic has a lot more information, including some details about a parallel discovery of a buried nest in Argentina (also full of soft shell eggs). Combined, these discoveries could have implications on methods of dinosaur parenting; or possibly challenge existing beliefs about the distinctions between dinosaurs and pterosaurs.
First soft-shelled dinosaur eggs shed light on prehistoric parenting [Michael Greshko / National Geographic]
A giant soft-shelled egg from the Late Cretaceous of Antarctica [Lucas J. Legendre, David Rubilar-Rogers, Grace M. Musser, Sarah N. Davis, Rodrigo A. Otero, Alexander O. Vargas & Julia A. Clarke / Nature]
Image: Public Domain via PxHere
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Jacques Pépin makes a delicious fried egg
From American Masters: At Home with Jacques Pépin — how to fry an egg. It's perfect! The only thing I would change is to cook it until the yolk is as hard as a superball and the whites are as crispy as potato chips.… Read the rest
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This guy can jump onto raw eggs without breaking them
Lan Guangping is a street performer from China. He has figured out how to jump almost a meter off the ground onto raw eggs without breaking them.
Here's a little background on how that's possible:
Image: YouTube / CCTV English
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Alex French Guy Cooking and 4-minute eggs benedict
Alex French Guy Cooking, our favorite French chef and nerd in the kitchen, has been running a series on his YouTube channel on mother sauces, those sauces which are the basis of French cooking. The whole series is fascinating, funny, and educational. — Read the rest
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Easy peel hard-boiled eggs via the Instant Pot are fast and easy
A long time ago I discovered that sous vide hard-boiled eggs are always perfect — but they take a while. In about a quarter the time I can make hard-boiled eggs for peeling and eating in a quarter the time with this method and my Instant Pot.
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J. Kenji López-Alt shows how to cook perfect boiled eggs
I'm a fan of Kenji's Cooking Show on YouTube because he shows you how to make delicious food and he explains the science and chemistry of cooking while he does it. In his latest video he shows how to cook boiled eggs to minimize the chances of having the shells stick to the eggs when you peel them. — Read the rest
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What animal produces these very strange and long edible eggs?
The answer is: Humans! These "long eggs" are produced in a German factory "by extruding cooked egg yolks into a long tube, then covering it with egg whites. [Video below!] One of the first of such machines was called the SANOVO 6-32 a.k.a. — Read the rest
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Try these delicious tiger skin eggs
There's something satisfying about deep frying everything. Whether it's Oreos, turkeys, or Twinkies, there isn't a scrap of food that doesn't become more delicious and deadly with a good deep fry. If anything, one could argue that deep frying is the key to American cuisine. — Read the rest
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I'm making a favorite snack: 'Chinese Tea Eggs'
Tea Eggs are delicious. Hard-boiled eggs marinated in tea and delicious spices are popular in China and very, very easy to make.
These are a favorite "I'm in keto!" snack.
This is an excellent use for your Instant Pot! Hardboiling eggs perfectly is pretty simple in an instant pot. — Read the rest
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This is what happens when you crack an egg underwater
This scuba diver cracks a raw egg underwater, and what happens is pretty darn cool. When the egg shell is removed, the raw egg stays perfectly intact. The yolk floats inside of the clear egg-white orb as the scuba diver moves it around. — Read the rest
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Stickbug eggs are a visual delight
I recently saw a post on the Facebook page "Entomemeology" (which bills itself as, "the internet's premier Entomology Meme & Humor Community" — check it out if you like bugs, and humor) describing the weird and wonderful world of stickbug eggs. — Read the rest
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Take a peek inside this year-old egg if you dare
In this video, a very brave soul cuts open a year-old egg that has been encased in resin. The egg must be cut open with a saw to reveal it's insides, which actually looked less rotten than I thought they would. — Read the rest
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The existential pleasures of trying to drop an egg from space
YouTube engineer Mark Rober, Joe Bernard of BPS.space, and a team of others, spent three years and a number of frustrating attempts trying to launch an egg into space and then dropping it in such a way that it could safely land back on Earth. — Read the rest
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Weird party trick: rub garlic on your fingers to pick up an egg yolk without it breaking
What is this sorcery? This video shows that if you rub your fingers on a freshly cut clove of garlic, you can then gently pick up a raw egg yolk. I'm not entirely sure how this will prove useful in your life, but there you have it. — Read the rest
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Meow Wolf's Omega Mart hatches slides with egg-carton soles
A couple of months ago there was some hubbub about Costco's Kirkland slide sandals. People were going crazy for them. I didn't understand the hype but let me tell you I stopped everything when I learned about a different breed of slides–ones with soles like egg cartons from Meow Wolf's Omega Mart! — Read the rest
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Clip from 1974 featuring man attempting to prove his ability to jump on eggs and human noses without breaking them
Here's a British TV clip from 1974 featuring a man named Tony McKay who is attempting to prove that he has the ability to jump on eggs and human noses without breaking them. To demonstrate his point, he repeatedly jumps over two eggs, but explains to the audience that he is in fact jumping on them. — Read the rest
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