egg as food
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You Should Fry a Hard Boiled Egg
Some of my favourite foods are utilitarian sources of protein. Cottage cheese, jerky, hard boiled eggs — things I can grab and shove in my face the moment I realise I’m way past hungry. (Being a food writer does not automatically make one good at recognising hunger cues, as it turns out.) Hard boiled eggs…
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How to Make Hard Boiled Eggs Without Peeling a Damn Thing
You may have, a time or 67 in your life, hard boiled an egg. And you may have, during those moments, spewed a continuous stream of curse words under your breath while doing so. Because peeling eggs, unless you enjoy this activity, is usually a messy time-suck filled with many small failures.
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How to Fold Ingredients Together Correctly
If you’ve ever made a cake, there’s a good chance you’ve had to fold egg whites into a batter without deflating them too much. But most people don’t go to culinary school and never learn what it actually means to fold one ingredient into another. As a result, lots and lots of folks end up…
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Why Do Eggs Come in Different Colours (and How Much Does It Matter)?
If you eat chicken eggs, you probably have a shell colour preference for reasons you can’t explain. Some people only buy brown eggs because they believe they’re “healthier” or more “natural” than white — but is that based on anything more than marketing? What makes an egg white, brown, green, blue, or pink, and does…