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Thinking about those egg tubes
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For those confused in the notes, these are mostly sold to restaurants. Egg salad and egg garnish in retaurant food needs to look attractive; ever notice how if you get a salad in a lot of these places, the pieces are always perfect slices with white on the outside and yolk in the middle? Most of a sliced egg doesn't look like that because of the shape that the egg and yolk is, so if they were just boiling and slicing eggs, they'd have to throw out more than half the egg if they wanted their slices to look nice.
These tubes are just made of normal eggs but boiled together in along tube shape. This way the whole thing looks pretty except the ends. That's more egg per egg! They also store and transport easier than separate eggs, and because they're sold precooked they save a lot of boiling and egg peeling time in the kitchen and result in a far more consistent product, cooked to perfection. Slicing up a big egg tube is much faster and produces better results than the kitchen staff having to boil and peel eggs themselves each time.
TIL about tube eggs. :)
but like
how??
if you crack five eggs, put all the whites in one bowl and the yolks in another, blend until even consistency... how do you combine/cook them in a way that maintains the yolk-in-middle positioning?? with no visible seam in the whites?????
i will go to my grave with this question twisting in the folds of my brain
I know this one!
There was a general interest science program from Britain (one of the hosts was the guy who shouts SCIENCE! in the "She Blinded Me With Science" video) and they explained how these were made. The context was some sort of meatloaf with an egg in it, and a viewer wanted to know why every piece had a perfect slice of egg.
Separate the yolks and whites.
Boil the yolks in a long thin plastic bag.
Take off the plastic and put the yolk cylinder in a slightly larger long thin bag.
Add whites.
Boil again, while agitating to make sure the white forms evenly around the yolk.
Gadoing! Perfect egg tube!
