Breaking eggs
Mar. 19th, 2016 08:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcI rather enjoy cooking: especially, trying new recipes or my own simple ideas. They rarely turn out as intended but I usually like the result nonetheless. However, cookery is not something for which I have managed to make time for many years. My fantasy of a life with more leisure thus includes cooking more of my own food from scratch.
mst3kmoxie has recently encouraged the eating of eggs; I suspect that we had abundantly many in stock. So, this morning I thought I'd poach a couple each for me and Benjamin. As I held the first egg over the pan I realized that a gaping hole in what I'm used to is breaking eggs directly into the little poaching vessels. Normally with eggs I am doing something collectively with them so I get a Pyrex jug or suchlike to hold all the egg and break the shell over the rim. I wondered if it would work to just push my thumb through the side, grip the shell from both sides and part it, but I could easily imagine it failing. So, I tried something I vaguely recall seeing others do: a sharp blow with a butterknife to the side of the egg. This worked perfectly well, especially as I already had a suitable knife to hand, the one I'd used to get some butter to lightly grease the vessels before emptying the egg into them.
mst3kmoxie has recently encouraged the eating of eggs; I suspect that we had abundantly many in stock. So, this morning I thought I'd poach a couple each for me and Benjamin. As I held the first egg over the pan I realized that a gaping hole in what I'm used to is breaking eggs directly into the little poaching vessels. Normally with eggs I am doing something collectively with them so I get a Pyrex jug or suchlike to hold all the egg and break the shell over the rim. I wondered if it would work to just push my thumb through the side, grip the shell from both sides and part it, but I could easily imagine it failing. So, I tried something I vaguely recall seeing others do: a sharp blow with a butterknife to the side of the egg. This worked perfectly well, especially as I already had a suitable knife to hand, the one I'd used to get some butter to lightly grease the vessels before emptying the egg into them.
