Comments on: HOWTO separate eggs with a plastic bottle

By: Ria V

Ria V — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 22:52:00 +0000

Buy buy buy buy buy. I think the egg separator is a wholly unnecessary gadget.

By: Paul Knieste

Paul Knieste — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 19:14:00 +0000

This is the “science” of de-ova-zation as seen by Todd Akin to prevent unwanted preganavy after a rape

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 01:22:00 +0000

Well, they do kinda sound the same to me

Are you joking? Japanese doesn’t sound any more like Chinese (I’ll assume Mandarin) than any European language does.

By: B E Pratt

B E Pratt — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 23:06:00 +0000

Not at all! Well, they do kinda sound the same to me, but that’s probably because I don’t hear the languages that often. But, generally with a bit of practice, it is pretty easy to tell a Chinese from a Japanese from a Vietnamese from a Thai……Also. the written languages are fairly easy to tell apart once you pay attention. There’s just a certain gestalt to each of them.

By: dainel

dainel — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:44:00 +0000

When she sucks up the yolk with the bottle, notice that she did not release the bottle completely. If the yolk is about to fall out, you release the bottle a little bit more. Repeat a few times, and you’ll make it across to the other bowl. At least that’s what it looked like to me. I haven’t tried it yet.

By: rtresco

rtresco — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:03:00 +0000

Sweet pro tip, I’ll tell my daughter.

By: Stephen M

Stephen M — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:50:00 +0000

That egg is so not fresh, the white is almost water like. Wonder how well the ‘trick’ works on a fresh egg when the white is gelatinous and bonded to the yolk.

By: cl3

cl3 — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:49:00 +0000

It’s George Winston’s version.

By: dragonfrog

dragonfrog — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:44:00 +0000

I’m in Canada, where eggs, chicken, and milk are supply-managed – it’s illegal to sell them without purchasing quota from the government, which is prohibitive for small operators.

Aside from the occasional absurd spectacle of police raids on farmers’ markets and roadside egg stands, it apparently means big delays in getting eggs to market – maybe to ensure no one is trying to overproduce the quota the cartel sold them..

EDIT – it also means you basically can’t eat uncommon breeds of chicken. You can get Angus or Simmental or Galloway beef, but there is only one kind of chicken to be had, and it is called chicken.

By: hassan-i-sabbah

hassan-i-sabbah — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:10:00 +0000

I once saw my Granny do something similar to this, on my brother. On a boil on his neck. yum.

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:05:00 +0000

Japanese and Chinese look and sound the same to you don’t they?

When you say Chinese, do you mean Mandarin, Wu or Cantonese?

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:04:00 +0000

You got it. Quick and sweet lifehacks is what I was going for.

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:00:00 +0000

@rattypilgrim:disqus

Are you buying decent free range eggs? Not that home ‘grown’ aren’t better either way, but if you’re buying decent eggs the quality shouldn’t be that different.

By: retepslluerb

retepslluerb — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:54:00 +0000

Wasn’t there once a thread here on Boing Boing revealing that eggs on the US spend way too much time in storage?

(Though I don’t understand why that would be the case, except for the additional demand around Easter.)

By: retepslluerb

retepslluerb — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:52:00 +0000

Why don’t you cough up $5 for a decent egg divider/separator? They are reasonably small. Even though I actually throw out unneeded things out of my kitchen, I’m considering to get one, if my wife starts craving more waffles.

By: apoxia

apoxia — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 07:03:00 +0000

I suspect niktemadur was referring to videos of interesting tricks, rather than the ethnicity of persons posting videos on the net.

By: JohnQPublic

JohnQPublic — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 06:49:00 +0000

Japanese and Chinese look and sound the same to you don’t they?

By: rattypilgrim

rattypilgrim — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:51:00 +0000

Probably the fresher the egg, the more resilient the yolk. Your method used to be mine when I had my own hens and their egg shells were harder, but grocery store egg shells (I find) are thin and brittle and don’t break cleanly. Maybe I don’t have the right technique for the breaking. I probably hesitate at the last nano second.

By: robuluz

robuluz — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:37:00 +0000

I agree that is an issue. You need a good egg breaking technique to get a cleanish edge, and a little luck. But it works most of the time for me, egg yolks always surprise me by how strong they are, and by how fragile they are.

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:21:00 +0000

A personal favorite is the shirt-folding trick. Here ya go, kids, knock yourselves out.

By: dragonfrog

dragonfrog — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:18:00 +0000

Apparently you can get extremely fresh eggs where this lady lives – where I live, the yolks don’t stand so high.

By: rattypilgrim

rattypilgrim — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:17:00 +0000

The woman was saying you have to perform a Kagel while transporting the zygote or you might be shot on the spot by a sheriff from Hew Hampshire.

By: rattypilgrim

rattypilgrim — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:08:00 +0000

The problem with the egg shell method is if the yolk touches the ragged edge of the shell while you’re juggling it between the two shell halves, it rips and gets messed up with the white.

By: rtresco

rtresco — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 04:39:00 +0000

I showed this to my 2yr old who immediately went to the kitchen and started pushing a chair over to the counter which is her signal when she wants to watch us cook, meaning she wanted to try the egg trick she just watched. We decided to sacrifice an egg for fun – and it works! Sorta. Sure enough the yolk sucked up into the bottle, but the woman must be saying something important about transferring it from one bowl to the other becuase although the yolk went in easy enough, it didn’t want to stay there very long. There’s a trick or finesse to it that we were missing.

By: Jonathan Roberts

Jonathan Roberts — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 03:51:00 +0000

The guy behind the Wahaha drinks company that sells those water bottles has quite an interesting story – he comes from a poor family and started the company in 1987 after only being able to find menial work in a school due to his lack of education. He topped the rich list of China in 2010 with 12 billion US dollars, although he’s since fallen to third. Oh, and as a definite 1%er, he’s also got a green card and allegations of tax evasion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zong_Qinghou

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 03:39:00 +0000

I don’t think you’re happy enough!
That’s right!
I’ll teach you to be happy!
I’ll teach your grandmother to suck eggs!
Now, boys and girls, let’s try it again!

If’n you aint the grandaddy of all liars!
The little critters of nature…
They don’t know that they’re ugly!
That’s very funny, a fly marrying a bumblebee!
I told you I’d shoot!
But you didn’t believe me!
Why didn’t you believe me?!

By: Jonathan Roberts

Jonathan Roberts — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 03:37:00 +0000

I looked on the YouTube page, it’s a set of videos in Chinese demonstrating quick DIY activities under different categories. She doesn’t give her name in this video and other videos have different contributors.

By: robuluz

robuluz — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 03:36:00 +0000

Crack the egg in half over a bowl, retaining the yoke in one shell half. Pour yoke into other half, allowing egg white to fall into bowl. Repeat if necessary.

No plastic, one less bowl, no egg on your hands!

Edit: I just noticed who I was replying to. I promise I’m not stalking you! :)

By: rattypilgrim

rattypilgrim — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 02:41:00 +0000

Why didn’t I think of that? Doh!

By: bingobangoboy

bingobangoboy — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 02:39:00 +0000

At the speed YouTube is choosing to stream this video, watching it all day would take a week.